Dec. 5, 2024
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.
Awards won by the Post in 2021.
Awards won by the Post in 2020.