Statesman, staff honored with UPA awards

    Staff members of The Utah Statesman took several top honors from the Better Newspaper Contest, part of the recent Utah Press Association Winter Convention held in St. George.

    The Utah Press Association is a cooperative of all Utah newspapers, from the biggest daily to the small-circulation weekly. The UPA provides legal, advertising and training support for all Utah print media, more than 50 publications.

    The Better Newspaper Contest allowed newspapers to submit their entries from items published in 2010, in about two dozen different categories of news and advertising.

    Statesman staff winning awards were:

    First place, Feature Photo, Mark Vuong, for a photo from A-Day 2010; first place, Feature Story, Tam Rounds, for an examination of the “spice problem” in Cache Valley; first place, Sports Story, Adam Nettina, for a profile on a USU soccer coach; second place, News Series, for The Statesman staff’s coverage of the USU-CEU merger.

    Also winning were the Statesman sports staff, third place for Sports Page Design; Alison Ostler, second place, for News Photo; third place, Tam Rounds, in the Feature Story category; and the entire staff was honored with second place in the category Best Overall News Coverage, as the judges examined three pre-determined issues published during 2010.