Sunshine State awards: Palm Beach Post honored with 9, Daily News with 1 first place

Holly Baltz, Palm Beach Post
Updated ·1 min read

Reporters for The Palm Beach Post won nine awards — four first place — announced Friday in the 2023 Sunshine State Awards journalism contest. The Palm Beach Daily News also was honored with one first place award.

Professional journalists from newspapers all over Florida as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands submit their work that published in 2022.

The awards, in their 29th year, are put together by the Society for Professional Journalists, Florida chapter, along with the South Florida chapters of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists; The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and the Florida chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Here are the winners:

First place awards for Palm Beach Post

Antigone Barton and Hannah Morse — Social Justice Reporting for Glades residents left behind: Nikki Fried's 'changes' to cane burning served only Big Sugar

Wendy Rhodes — Feature Reporting (Large papers) for Bizarre tale of millionaire Neal Jacobson: Did medication lead to murder?

Chris Persaud — Data reporting

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Hannah Phillips — Crime & Courts Beat Reporting

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First place winners from The Palm Beach Post in the 2023 Sunshine State Awards: from left, Hannah Phillips, Wendy Rhodes, Chris Persaud
First place winners from The Palm Beach Post in the 2023 Sunshine State Awards: from left, Hannah Phillips, Wendy Rhodes, Chris Persaud

First place for Palm Beach Daily News

David A. Wilson — Editorial Cartooning

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Giuseppe Sabella — Education Beat Reporting

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Wayne Washington — NABJ South Florida Diversity Award for Trayvon Martin's legacy: Push for social, criminal justice reform lives on 10 years after 17-ear-old's death

Anthony Doris — Editorial Witing

A morning walker passes tracks left by sea turtles that nested overnight on the beach in Coral Cove Park in Tequesta. This photo by staff photographer Greg Lovett was a finalist for a 2023 Sunshine State Award for Feature Photography.
A morning walker passes tracks left by sea turtles that nested overnight on the beach in Coral Cove Park in Tequesta. This photo by staff photographer Greg Lovett was a finalist for a 2023 Sunshine State Award for Feature Photography.

Tom D'Angelo — Special Publications or Section for 50 historic moments in Palm Beach County sports

Greg Lovett — Feature Photography for Sea turtle nests

Holly Baltz is Investigations and Education Editor for The Palm Beach Post. She can be reached at HBaltz@pbpost.com. Subscribe to independent reporting that supports democracy via subscribe.palmbeachpost.com.

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