The Daily Post won first-place awards for Breaking News, Best Column-News/Political and headline writing in the San Francisco Press Club annual Excellence in Journalism competition last night (Dec. 5).
The contest draws entries from big media outlets like the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News, and many smaller publications. TV, radio and digital newsrooms also compete.
This year the contest received 798 entries and the awards were presented at a gala in downtown San Francisco.
Post reporter Braden Cartwright won the first-place award for his coverage of a June 3, 2024, fire of a five-story apartment building at 2700 Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks. The fire forced the evacuations of hundreds. Cartwright provided the first reports and photos of the massive fire on the Post’s website, padailypost.com.
Post Editor Dave Price won the top prize for best column in the news/political category. Price also won the first- and second-place prizes for headlines. The top one was “Supervisors get icy over ICE” and the second-place winner was “Tax funds used for meditation? Just say Om.”
Price won second- and third-place awards for editorial cartoons. In second was a cartoon titled, “The proper use of police dogs,” and in third was “Billionaire cage match,” about Elon Musk’s challenge fight it out with Mark Zuckerberg. The police dog cartoon printed on May 8, 2023, was simple. It showed four dogs, three of whom were doing the right things — finding lost kids, sniffing for drugs and locating bombs. The bad dog bites suspects.
The Post’s Emily Mibach won a third-place award for front page design with her cover on May 31, 2024 that said, “Trump guilty” for his conviction in a New York City hush money trial.
Congratulations! Well deserved!
Congratulations. The Post isn’t afraid to go after stories the other papers won’t touch. I look forward to getting the Post every day.
Congratulations, especially for the Dave Price cartoons! I still say you should sell them as either separate prints or compiled as a calendar the way The New Yorker does.
Thanks for your fearless coverage and sensible editorials about the magic-wand-waving political candidates who do nothing but virtue signalling and rake in the big money from outside interests.
Congratulations! Chapeaux! Now we all need to support keeping newstands available. The first amendment is threatened as the city of Palo Alto wants to remove news boxes from University Avenue to ‘beautify’ downtown.
The city would relegate news boxes to the hinterland. In doing so the city would be in violation of the first amendment (Lakewood vs. Plain Dealer, U.S. Supreme Court, 1988).
If some other publishers have abandoned their news boxes then those and only those should be removed. The Palo Alto Daily Post is sought after and serves the community well. The city of Palo Alto needs to leave the blue Palo Alto Daily Post just as they are situated.
Many have stated that there should be more blue news boxes in town not less.
It’s sad that we have such a great little newspaper, winning many awards, and a city council that wants to run them out of business by eliminating their news racks. Hang in there, Daily Post! We love you.
You are hands down the most investigative newspaper in Santa Clara County