This was one of 14 awards the Kokomo Tribune won that day. Here is the full story about it:
Tribune wins 14 statewide newspaper awards
From staff reports
INDIANAPOLIS — The Kokomo Tribune won
14 awards, six of them first place, at the 51st annual Hoosier State
Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest Awards Luncheon
Saturday.
Tribune photographer Kelly Lafferty
Gerber won five of those.
Lafferty Gerber's story "Hayes the
Brave" won first-place for Best Sports News or Feature Coverage
in the contest's Division 5, for daily newspapers with circulation of
between 14,000 and 34,999.
Judges called it a "strong story
about a strong child, told without being maudlin."
Lafferty Gerber also won four
first-place awards, three seconds and three thirds in the photography
categories.
She swept first, second and third in the
Best Sports Feature Photo category, and took first and second in the
Best Multiple Picture Group category.
Her first-place photo, "Happy
Tears," in the Best General News Photo category was a finalist
for the 2017 contest's Photo of the Year.
Also winning awards were:
— Carson Gerber, first place in the
Best News Coverage with No Deadline Pressure category, for his story
"Warrants in the dark."
Judges said: "This is a great look
at the dangers [law enforcement] officers face on the job. Serving a
warrant might not sound like a dangerous act, but this shows how
treacherous it can be — especially at night."
— The Tribune staff, second place in
the Best News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure, for its coverage of
the Aug. 24, 2016, tornadoes.
"It's evident that the news team
fanned out in order to get on-the-ground reports to humanize this
huge story," the judges said.
— Former City Editor Rob Burgess,
second place in the Best Editorial Writer category.
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