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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.