The Daily Post took home 11 awards in the San Francisco Press Club annual contest including trophies for best news column, best news story and best series or continuing coverage of a story.
The awards are open to newspapers, news websites, TV stations and radio stations in the Bay Area. This year the club received a record 500 entries from news outlets as varied as the San Francisco Chronicle to the Mission District’s El Tecolote, from KTVU to the Nob Hill Gazette.
The contest was judged by members of press clubs in other U.S. cities.
Dave Price, the Post’s editor, won a first-place award for best newspaper column featuring news and politics. He also won a third-place award for features column.
The Post also won first and second-place awards for front page design. The first-place design was for the Sept. 9, 2022 edition about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and the second-place award was for a March 17, 2022 front page with the top story about the Confederate flag tattoo that was on the leg of then-San Mateo County Sheriff’s Candidate Christina Corpus’ husband.
Price won the second- and third-place honors for best headline. The winners were “Dead man already dead,” about a transient who recently died but had been declared dead years earlier, and “DA hits breaks on Batmobile,” concerning the investigation over whether an auto shop reneged on its commitment to sell an Atherton man a replica Batmobile.
Post reporter Braden Cartwright won:
• Second-place, news stories, for a story about a homeless man who lived in Palo Alto for years, but nobody knew his name or background.
• Second-place, feature story of a serious nature, was a follow-up story about the man whose name wasn’t known. Theodore Nelson Clegg Jr. had been declared dead by his family, after a long search, 19 years before he actually died behind a gas station on El Camino Real.
• Third-place, for news story about former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s behind-the-scenes pressure to get the city of Palo Alto to let her destroy housing so she could build a swimming pool.
• Third-place, series or continuing coverage, of the death of Stanford soccer player Katie Meyer.
Post Reporter Emily Mibach received an honorable mention in the best news story competition for her report about cities that were paid by a pro-electric power nonprofit to study removing natural gas lines to homes.
The awards were handed out at a banquet in San Francisco on Dec. 13 that drew a crowd of 300 news media professionals.
At the banquet, the press club presented a lifetime achievement award to Pam Moore, who retired this year after a long career at KRON 4. The keynote speaker was New York Times writer Heather Knight, who had been at the Chronicle for 20 years before taking the job of the Times’ San Francisco Bureau Chief.
CONGRATULATIONS! You deserve these awards for keeping us informed about all the good news — and bad — in our communities. We especially look forward to Dave’s editorials every Monday.
Congratulations! Keep on digging and thanks for probing beyond the city’s press releases.