Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

SUN Awards

  • 'Do No Harm' series, Sun website earn national distinction
    One of the nation’s largest and oldest journalism awards programs has honored the Sun for two accomplishments — citing the series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” as the finest example of print journalism in 2010, and crediting LasVegasSun.com for the best example of innovative journalism for its pioneering efforts to elevate the level of online discussion among readers.
  • Sun wins journalism awards for investigative hospital care series
    The series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas,” which revealed how patients are infected or injured while hospitalized, has been recognized by two journalism organizations — one specializing in business reporting and the other in health care coverage.
  • Sun reporters win another national journalism award for investigative hospital care series
    A second national prize for investigative reporting has been awarded to reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards for their series in the Sun that explored how patients are infected or injured while hospitalized.
  • Nation can't afford failure of free press
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  • Sun reporters win investigative reporting award for hospital series
    Two journalists who reported and wrote the Sun series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” have been awarded the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, sponsored by Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
  • Sun wins national media award for telling the story of gambling addiction
    The Las Vegas Sun has won a national broadcast journalism award for its examination of gambling addiction, becoming the first print-based news organization to receive the award for multimedia storytelling.
  • Las Vegas Sun captures international online journalism awards
    The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group received two major awards Saturday night from the world's largest association of online journalists.
  • In Business wins six first-place awards
    In Business Las Vegas won six first-place awards and veteran In Business and Las Vegas Sun business reporter Richard N. Velotta was named outstanding journalist among community newspapers in the Nevada Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest.
  • "Kay," a dancer from Deja Vu Showgirls, performs some pole dancing moves while inside a truck with strippers from Little Darlings to advertise the clubs on the Las Vegas Strip late in the evening Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. The image shot won the top photography award in the Nevada Press Association contest.
    Sun wins 22 first-place awards in state contest
    The Las Vegas Sun has won 22 first-place awards for writing, editing, art, design and photography in the Nevada Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. The Sun did better than any other daily newspaper in the contest’s 42 categories.
  • Series on gambling addiction recognized nationally
    A three-part series that examines gambling addictions — through stories, videos and interactive graphics and a live, online chat — has won a first-place award in the Excellence in Feature Writing competition sponsored by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.
  • Websites of the Sun, Las Vegas Weekly win top honors
    The Las Vegas Sun’s website was honored Thursday as the best news website in its size class by Editor & Publisher magazine. LasVegasSun.com won three top prizes and was a finalist in four other categories for the 2010 EPpy Awards, the premier international awards for media-affiliated websites and blogs.
  • Sun journalists honored in regional competition
    A profile of boxer Willie Chapman, an aging sparring partner clinging to hope of a title fight despite years of punishment to his body, has brought Sun reporter J. Patrick Coolican the first-place award for sports writing in “Best of the West,” a prestigious journalism contest.
  • Sun reporters, Web staff win national honors
    Las Vegas Sun staff have won two national journalism awards — one acknowledging expertise in covering health care and the other recognizing collaboration of the print newspaper and its Web site leading to innovative results.
  • Las Vegas Sun captures business writing awards
    Stories about troubled CityCenter and about what lessons recession-slammed Las Vegas can learn from the Rust Belt have been named as among the best examples of business writing in the nation in 2009 by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
  • Sun photographer recognized for photo essay on F Street
    A photo essay by Sun photojournalist Leila Navidi has placed first in the Sun’s circulation category in Editor & Publisher Magazine’s 10th Annual News Photos of the Year Contest.
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