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The Mountain View Voice won the Online General Excellence award at the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest on Saturday, May 20, in Santa Monica.
Along with receiving the Online General Excellence award the Voice took home five second-place awards for journalism for newspapers in its circulation category, and seven honorable mentions, including General Excellence.
Last year, the Voice won General Excellence, the top award for print journalism given at the statewide contest, and took second place for Online General Excellence.
Journalists from outside of California selected the winners of the annual competition from among daily, weekly and school newspapers out of thousands of entries. The Voice competed against other weekly newspapers with circulations between 11,000 and 25,000 for its work in 2016.
The community media outlet and its news staff, led by Editor Andrea Gemmet, won second place for the following:
Investigative reporting for staff writer Mark Noack’s story Disarray at the Dojo about the leadership crisis and allegations of misuse of funds at the hacker club.
Coverage of business news for the story Robots rolling in dough by Noack with photos by Michelle Le, about Zume, a well-funded startup seeking to automate pizza delivery.
Coverage of education for staff writer Kevin Forestieri’s story A not-so-seamless summer for hungry kids, about gaps in the summer program that’s supposed to feed children who rely on subsidized school lunches.
Breaking news for Noack’s coverage of a huge land-swap deal between Google and LinkedIn that would secure Google’s place as the dominant property owner in North Bayshore.
Photo essay for Le’s documentation of Mountain View’s growing population of homeless living in their cars that accompanied Noack’s story Council: no easy solutions for city’s car-dwellers.
In addition, Voice staffers won honorable mention, meaning they finished in third or fourth place, for:
General Excellence for the print edition of the newspaper.
Coverage of local government for Noack’s series of stories about the battle over rent control in Mountain View.
Coverage of education for Forestieri’s story Teacher shortage still a big problem.
Enterprise news for Forestieri and Noack’s Out of Balance series digging into the job growth that’s driving Silicon Valley’s housing crisis.
Editorial comment for Associate Editor Renee Batti’s editorial City’s refusal to release applications wrongheaded, on the withholding of public information about people seeking appointment to the new city committee overseeing rent control.
Online photo essay for Le’s behind-the-scenes photographs of Zume, the pizza delivery startup using robots, with the story Robots rolling in dough.
Feature photo for Le’s eye-catching shot taken in downtown Mountain View’s Rocket Fizz candy shop.
The Voice’s sister paper, the Palo Alto Weekly, was awarded second prize for Online General Excellence for its website paloaltoonline.com along with five more first- and second-place awards in its division for the largest circulation news weeklies in California.
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“Baby Driver”: Cult fave writer-director Edgar Wright (“Shaun of the Dead”) brings together a quirky cast (Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Edagar Wright, Flea and Lanny Joon) in this hidden gem about a getaway driver. Photo by Wilson Webb, courtesy of CTMG, Inc. -
“Dark Tower”: Nicholas Hamilton, right, teams up with Idris Elba, who plays a gunslinger in this highly anticipated mythic Western adapted from Stephen King. Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures. -
“The Emoji Movie”: Gene (T.J. Miller) is a multi-expressional emoji who sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation. -
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”: Based on the comic-book series, director Luc Besson’s new adventure film is visually spectacular. Photo courtesy of STX Entertainment. -
“Beatriz at Dinner”: John Lithgow plays a loud-mouthed, racist, hotel-owning billionaire who clashes with a liberal-minded Mexican massage therapist. Photo courtesy of FilmNation Entertainment. -
“Dunkirk”: Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead play Allied soldiers in this World War II story that could be an Oscar contender. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. -
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales”: Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) leads deadly ghost pirates against Jack Sparrow in a formulaic rehash of what’s come before — and should be skipped. Photo courtesy of Disney Enterprises, Inc. -
“Wonder Woman”: Gal Gadot plays the comic-book super hero in what could give Marvel a run for the money. Photo by Clay Enos, courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. -
Stretch to Kindergarten intern Melissa Martinez has lunch with students at Theuerkauf Elementary School on July 18, 2016. Photo by Michelle Le
The bar must be set quite low.
Not as low as you are, snowflake.
Congrats! Keep up the good work!
Well deserved!
The Voice does us a great service by investigating what’s going on in our schools, businesses, land development, and restaurants. I can tell that reporters take time to check for accuracy. It’s easy for newspapers to skip that. I appreciate that articles include a map when it helps to explain land use and traffic topics.
Keep up the good work!
Congratulations – well deserved!
Good for you! It’s good to know that we have one of the best local papers around.
These awards programs have become meaningless. Much like the Chamber of Commerce’s awards, media awards have become little more than a bunch of colleagues patting each other on the back and telling each other how great they are.
Congrats! I like our little local paper.
Is this a prank, I’m calling shinanigans!
I do not always agree with the Voice’s editorials or the focus of some stories. But I must give the newspaper credit for covering many important issues and includibg differing opinions.
Congratulation!