Society of Professional Journalists

First-place categories for IM stories included Medical, Business, and Sports reporting, as well as Column and Features writing.

Check out the lauded features and photo essays here.

The Star has more local stuff than it once did, I’ll grant you that, and much of it is good. Sometimes, though, you must get desperate to fill space, as with the piece you ran about a deer beaten on the head with a hammer on I-70.