RIO GRANDE – The Cape May County Herald won two first-place awards in the 2012 New Jersey Press Association newspaper contest. Awards will be presented to winners in April.
Reporter Deborah McGuire won the top Lloyd P. Burns Memorial Award for Responsible Journalism, Public Service, Weekly over 6,500, for a series of news stories about the mold problem in Middle Township Elementary No. 1 and 2.
The series commenced in December 2011 with reports of mold in classrooms at Elementary No. 1. However, contest rules permitted only stories that appeared in 2012. While the district took initial action, the problem continued into 2012. McGuire’s five stories in the series chronicled parents’ concerns, discussion with a physician focusing on mold’s effects on children and ultimate action taken by the district to remediate the problem.
For its 2012 Weddings and Special Event Guide, the Herald’s Advertising staff won first place in the Best Niche Publication/Magazine.
That publication included stories and photographs of weddings submitted by readers. Those images and stories were prominently presented interspersed with advertisements, many of them created by graphic artists in the Client and Creative Services Department.
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