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2021 Annual
Contest Winners
SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS
PHOTO OF
THE YEAR
Jason Bean
Reno Gazette-
Journal
Protester takes Reno police
shield sign
Judge’s Comment
This is a unique moment
from a protest. Technically
well executed. Appreciated
the photographer’s
attention to detail by
including the police sign in
the background.
OUTSTANDING
OUTSTANDING JOURNALIST VISUAL JOURNALIST JOURNALIST OF MERIT
Rio Lacanlale Benjamin Hager Justin Emerson
Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Sun
Judge’s Comment:
This was an incredibly difficult
category to judge because there
were several deserving winners.
Before I get into Rio Lacanlale’s
work, I just want to give a shout
out to Michael Lyle of the Nevada
Current, as the two were neck
and neck in this competition.
However, there can only be one
Outstanding Journalist for
this category. What tipped the
balance in Rio Lacanlale’s favor
was the extent she was willing
to go to in order to get the full
story, including travel during
the time of COVID to reach
family members of the 2017 mass counted victims, three years Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment:
shooting victims, and relatives of after the event. In terms of The individual spotlights on the Sin Loved the passion of ALL of the
a Black man choked to death by service to our industry, to City performers were incredible—each nominees. The winner stood out because
police 30 years ago. It would be continue following a story—not photo captured the essence of each of the diversity of assignments and
beating it to death but bringing performer. Coupled with the Black Lives willingness to experiment with new
tempting to get these interviews
out new facets of importance Matter Protests and gallery of photos challenges.
over the phone, but Lacanlale went
to the social structure we work of Saturn and Jupiter throughout Las
above and beyond. That personal
Vegas made Hager the stand-out in
touch flows through her pieces. within—three years is pretty
a category with a lot of great entries
Overall, her writing is tight, amazing. Great reporting,
and tough competition. The deciding
focused and powerful, with the important stories that are nicely factors included creativity, angles and
result the reader “gets” alternate written, and seeking out the visual elements brought to the photos
points of view on issues being details others might miss. Ms. while demonstrating the range of the
covered. I was also impressed with Lacanlale is certainly deserving photographer from arts to hard news to
the results—for example, changes of this award. community coverage. This diversity was
in the way a Sheriff ’s department very apparent in several contestants.
SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS
EDITORIAL CARTOON OF THE YEAR STORY OF THE YEAR
Mike Smith Judge’s Comment:
Las Vegas Sun Provides a timely commentary
linking current events to an over-
Racism arching problem in America.
Tie for first place
PODCAST OF THE YEAR EDITORIAL OF THE Reno Gazette- Megan Messerly
YEAR Journal Staff The Nevada
Nathan Shoup, Our year of Independent
Adam Shoup Ric Anderson What Happened
COVID-19: Feeling
Las Vegas Sun Here?
The Reno Slant loss and hope as
An accommodating Nevada reaches
Judge’s Comment:
GOP, Trump are first pandemic Judge’s Comment:
Professional and entertaining. transforming America anniversary Excellent history of Nevada’s initial
The hosts sound like they know into a dictatorship struggle with COVID-19. The reporting
their stuff on the regional and analysis were smart, fair and
Judge’s Comment: superbly supported by deep sourcing
sports scene, always a hot topic.
Imagine this has some rabid Judge’s Comment: Stellar reporting in this series showed from every perspective. This is a
fans. This editorial laid out in the pandemic’s effects on a wide range smooth first draft of history.
painstaking detail a strong of fronts. The writing was crisp and
and clear position against detailed; the reporting was comprehensive,
the actions of the Trump compassionate and courageous.
administration. It used
FREEDOM OF THE emphatic language and
PRESS presented a point-by-point case
for its argument. VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Dave Daley, Dave
Skinner, Marjorie Jason Bean Judge’s Comment:
Haun, C.J. Hadley, Reno Gazette-Journal Great story, good thirds with each
interviewee contrasting each other
John Bardwell The story behind the photo that
while they are on the same side, audio
RANGE magazine came to define the Black Lives was good. Overall great job!
A free and independent Matter protest in Minden
press is crucial to
our survival as a self- SPECIAL PROJECT
governing nation.
Ves Quinlan, Second Place Third Place
Judge’s Comment: Bill Jones, John
Journalism has been infiltrated Bardwell, C.J. Eric Cachinero, Megg Steve Ranson, David
with bad judgements and selfish
Hadley Mueller, Kippy Spilker, Henley, Kenneth Beaton
egos and these articles cut
through that. As I read them I got RANGE magazine Alexandria Olivares- Lahontan Valley News
the feeling the writers could care
Quinlan & Jones Wenzel Legacies of the Silver State:
less whether I was impressed
or upset or worried about who
Nevada Magazine Nevada Goes to War
would be offended. The journalist Judge’s Comment: Odyssey of a Ghost Town
was using words and the images Judge’s Comment:
they create to take me to the
Strong product with excellent storytelling Explorer
and imagery. This book is impactful, with top
“moment” so I understood
quality storytelling and writing.
what they understood. It is Judge’s Comment:
great writing, but it is also great
Excellent product with top notch
courage. Thank you.
storytelling, history and imagery.
2 Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards
2021 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
RAY HAGAR
Ray Hagar got his first job in
journalism at the age of 17 and is
still going strong 50 years later.
Born in Reno and raised in Sparks,
he has spent most of his career
covering sports and politics in
Northern Nevada and making
himself one of the most widely-
respected reporters in the state.
While still a senior in high school
in 1970, Hagar got a job with the
Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada
State Journal as a sports stringer.
After graduating from journalism
school at the University of Nevada
in 1975, he worked as a sports
writer and photographer for the
Gardnerville Record-Courier and
a sports editor and photographer
for the Sparks Tribune, before
returning to the Evening Gazette
and State Journal in 1977.
Hagar’s instinctual defense of
his journalistic independence
led to an incident in 1979 that on Nevada Newsmakers, beginning
LUCIUS BEEBE a new chapter in his career that
made national headlines. He was
Lucius Beebe lived in Nevada for In 1950, Beebe and Clegg had had interviewing hot-headed New York continues to this day.
only ten years, but he accomplished enough of cafe society life and Yankees manager Billy Martin, His prominence as a political
enough in that decade to qualify for opted to move to Virginia City, who objected to one of Hagar’s reporter continued to rise in 2010,
more than one Silver State Hall of a town they fell in love with at questions. “He said that writers when he began writing the “Inside
Fame, helping to restore Virginia least in part due to its association always twist things,” Hagar told AP. Nevada Politics” blog for RGJ.
City and resuscitate the historically with railroad history, a subject “He saw me writing things down It quickly became must reading
significant Territorial Enterprise that obsessed them both. They and he wanted to see my notes.” for anyone trying to understand
newspaper. bought the Virginia City News Hagar refused and held his notes politics in the state.
Beebe was already an accomplished and launched it as the Territorial behind his back as Martin reached
Enterprise two years later, around to grab them. Martin Hagar also co-authored a book
cultural critic and journalist when
breathing life into the newspaper slugged him. The Evening Gazette in 2010 with his friend Guy
he moved to Nevada in 1950 with
Clifton. Johnson-Jeffries: Dateline
his longtime partner Charles Clegg. that had employed Mark Twain protested and eventually there was
Reno was released on the 100th
A noted gourmand with aristocratic nearly a century earlier. a financial settlement and apology
from Martin. anniversary of the Jack Johnson-
roots and what Wikipedia calls Beebe wrote a column called “That
James J. Jeffries “Fight of the
an “impressive and baroque Was the West,” covering everything In 1987, Hagar left Nevada for a Century” in Reno.
wardrobe”, Beebe joined the New from history to gastronomy. relatively brief spell in Texas as
York Herald Tribune in 1929 and Drawing on his relationships sports editor of the El Paso Times. Since retiring from the RGJ in
remained with the paper for 21 with the nation’s literati, Beebe Six years later, he came home for 2016, Hagar has continued to co-
years. From the 1930s through convinced prominent authors a third stint at the paper that had host Nevada Newsmakers and to
1944 he wrote a syndicated column like Bernard DeVeto and Walter by then been renamed the Reno write political news features for the
called “This New York”, which Van Tilburg Clark to contribute Gazette Journal (RGJ). He began Gazette Journal.
chronicled the city’s “cafe society”, covering public affairs and politics
a term he helped to popularize. See BEEBE, next page in 2003 as co-host with Sam Shad
FRANK X. MULLEN
Frank X. Mullen contains University of Nevada, Reno. A Day-by-Day Account of a
multitudes. Known primarily Mullen cut his teeth as an Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-
as an investigative reporter, editor and reporter for the 1847, went through four
he also is an author, historian, Columbia Daily Tribune, the printings and is still used in
actor and university journalism Rocky Mountain Business history classes in Nevada and
instructor. Journal and the Denver Post California.
Born in Queens and raised before coming to Nevada in He broke stories about
in New Jersey, Mullen came 1988 to work for the Reno dangerous Nevada doctors,
west to earn a journalism Gazette Journal. He spent most malfeasance in state agencies,
degree from Metropolitan of his 25 years at the paper the abuse of research animals,
State University of Denver. In pursuing deeply-reported and toxic clouds generated by
1979, he helped co-found The investigative projects. burning military munitions
Metropolitan, the school’s His interest in Nevada history in California. His ongoing
student newspaper that’s still drew him to the Donner Party, stories about the Fallon cancer
publishing today. He later which led to a newspaper series cluster, in which 16 children
earned a master’s degree in about the ill-fated pioneers contracted leukemia over a
environmental journalism/ that later became a book. The six-year period, was nominated
new media from the Reynolds Donner Party Chronicles: for a Pulitzer by the Gazette
School of Journalism at the
See MULLEN, next page
Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards 3
2021 Hall of Fame Inductees
LENITA POWERS BARRY SMITH
Lenita Powers may not have Barry Smith made his mark in
become a mainstay of Northern Nevada journalism as both an
Nevada journalism for more editor and an advocate.
than four decades were it not for He began his journalism career
the inspiration of a high-school in 1977 as a reporter for the State
counselor who told her she wasn’t Journal-Register in Springfield,
“college material” despite a Ill. He also worked for more than
straight-A average. That ticked her 16 years in Colorado — ten years as
off, so when she graduated from a reporter and city editor for the
Sparks High School in 1967 she Durango Herald, and six years as an
immediately enrolled as a full- assistant city editor for the Greeley
time student at the University of Tribune—before making his way to
Nevada, Reno. She worked her way Nevada.
through school in four years and
graduated with a degree from the Smith came to the Silver State
Reynolds School of Journalism. in 1996 to become editor of the
Nevada Appeal. The paper had been
Powers served two internships through two ownership changes in
during her undergraduate years, the two years before he arrived and
one at Advertising Age in New the staff was unsettled. After Smith
York and the other at the Reno One of her columns led directly director. “Now my job is to worry
to the rescue of Fleischmann was hired and Jeff Ackerman took about all of them.”
Evening Gazette. Ad Age offered over as publisher, the paper began
her a permanent position, which Atmospherium Planetarium—they Smith quickly became the voice
were planning to turn it into a to thrive. It increased circulation
she declined. After graduating in and became a leader in statehouse of Nevada journalists, arguing in
1972, she accepted a position at parking lot—and its placement on dozens of hearings in the Nevada
the National Register of Historic coverage. Smith wrote a weekly
the Evening Gazette and began her column and daily editorials, and legislature for improving the
43-year career with the paper at Buildings. She also won awards state’s open meeting and public
for a column about an uninsured edited much of the daily copy.
what was then called the “Women’s records laws. In 2007, during
Page”. Reno child who needed a heart He also led the newsroom through his first session as a lobbyist, he
transplant. Her column led to the two of its biggest news stories of the worked closely with Sen. Terry Care
Eager to become a hard-news establishment of a local fund to early aughts—the Sept. 11 terrorist to help enact sweeping reforms
reporter—at the time, there were finance the procedure. attacks, when the Appeal produced in the public records law. Other
only two other women doing it at an extra edition, and a massive
the Evening Gazette—she often After retiring from the Gazette significant policy accomplishments
Journal in 2015, Powers joined wildfire in 2004 that threatened to included the first police body-cam
helped cover any breaking news consume Carson City. The Appeal
events, which eventually led her to the May Arboretum and Botanical statute, which ensures that body-
Garden as a volunteer. She served won numerous awards during this cam recordings are a matter of
the city desk. Over the course of her stretch, including Smith, who
career she covered federal and state on the board until 2019, promoting public record, and the first Nevada
the arboretum and helping to write was honored as the state’s best Supreme Court rules on electronic
courts, the legislature, K-12 and columnist in 2002.
higher education. She also wrote and distribute press releases and access to courtrooms by journalists,
heart-tugging people features. event information for the society’s He was a member of the Nevada as well as a statewide policy on
fund-raising events. Press Association Board of public access to court records and
She worked as assistant city editor, Directors when the executive evidence. In the 2017 session, he
mentored numerous Reynolds In her spare time she raised two
sons, numerous cats, cutting horses director position opened in 2006. helped ensure that public notice
School journalism students, and “I used to have to worry about one remains in newspapers.
wrote a popular column throughout and cattle, and competed regionally
as a team roper. She still lives in the newspaper,” he often said after He retired as the press association
the 1990s, tackling everything he was hired as the organization’s
from politics to her own family. Reno area. director in 2018.
BEEBE, continued from previous page MULLEN, continued from previous page
regularly. Under his direction, the Governor Charles Russell to serve
Journal, as was his coverage of Edward R. Murrow.
weekly newspaper grew to 6,000 as chairman of the committee that
animal abuse and neglect. He has appeared on the History
subscribers and generated national planned events honoring Nevada
attention. and Virginia City on the state’s Mullen taught journalism at Channel, Discovery, PBS, BBC
Silver Centennial. Clegg and Beebe the Reynolds School for more and other cable networks. He
According to the Online Nevada
sold the Territorial Enterprise than a dozen years beginning in was Nevada Press Association’s
Encyclopedia (ONE), Beebe and
in 1961 and moved to the San 2000, and continues to lecture on Outstanding Journalist in 2002
Clegg did nothing to conceal their
Francisco area. Beebe died of a storytelling and Western history and 2005, and recently was named
homosexuality in Virginia City.
heart attack five years later. at Truckee Meadows Community the Robert Laxalt Distinguished
“Nevertheless, oral histories
College. Writer for 2021.
note that while most residents Beebe wrote more than three dozen
disapproved of a gay lifestyle, books (about half co-authored by Mullen’s talent for narration and Last year, Mullen came out of
they chose to overlook it, in part Clegg), most focusing on the joys acting made him a natural for the retirement to revive the website
because the men were improving of railroad travel. He was inducted Humanities Chautauqua living- of the Reno News & Review,
the community with preservation into the Nevada Writers Hall of history presentations where, since an alternative weekly that was
efforts,” said ONE. Fame in 1992. 1998, he has performed in several shuttered when the pandemic
states as characters as diverse as began.
In 1958, Beebe was appointed by
Babe Ruth, Benedict Arnold and
Congratulations to all of this year’s contest winners!
4 Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards
ADVERTISING
Magazines Rural Magazines
IN-HOUSE ADVERTISING ADVERTISING GENERAL EXCELLENCE ADVERTISING GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Tara Addeo Jaci Goodman
The Record-Courier edible Reno-Tahoe
Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment:
Excellent advertising from top to bottom. A lot of This magazine is fantastic from front to back!
hard work was put into the political ads and special High-quality advertising throughout with great
section. The “Best of” special section advertising artwork and design technique. The attention to
was also outstanding. Great work. detail is excellent. Especially enjoyed the Holiday
and Valentine’s Day advertising sections. Nicely
done.
Second Place
Nevada Appeal Second Place
Judge’s Comment:
Carrie Roussel, Alexandria
Great use of color and font and strategic use of Olivares-Wenzel
image to compel action around the message. Nevada Magazine
Judge’s Comment:
Third Place The advertisements are nicely done with style and
Dany Haniff Heather Ruth, Dolores Sarantes, eye-catching graphics. Need more advertising
to move up in this category. Very nice magazine
Las Vegas Weekly Charlotte Uyeno, Gail Smith, overall.
Vegas Inc Women Inspiring Racheal Walker, Bianca Graeff
Nevada Pahrump Valley Times
Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment:
The Women Inspiring Nevada ad is beautiful, clean Very nice ads throughout and an attractive and
and graphically impactful. As a Montana woman, well-designed business directory.
I’m inspired! Fantastic use of highlighting their
logo, incorporating local foliage, with cool fonts and
colors.
Rural
Second Place BLACK AND WHITE AD
Dany Haniff
Las Vegas Weekly Heather Ruth On November 10, 1775 a Corps of Marines was
Vegas Inc Angel Awards Nominations Tonopah Times created by a Resolution of Continental Congress.
Bonanza
Third Place
Galli’s Locks Happy 245TH birthday usmc
Dany Haniff Judge’s Comment:
Las Vegas Weekly Simple but elegantly done. Love the
flag in the ribbon.
Vegas Inc Top Doctors Nominations
Second Place
Urban, Rural
Heather Ruth
Pahrump Valley Times "You're making a wrong assumption that a Marine by himself is outnumbered."
NICHE MAGAZINE GENERAL PETER PACE
Feed the Hungry Benefit
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
Elizabeth Brown, Emma The Marines don't have that problem."
Judge’s Comment: PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
Cauthorn, Jennifer Inaba The layout of the photos is fun.
Las Vegas Weekly Great placement and separation for To err is human, to forgive divine;
the wording.
neither of which is Marine Corps Policy
Health Care Quarterly
USMC Galli’s
Judge’s Comment:
Third Place Honor Courage Commitment
I stand for the flag. Locks
Well-written and relevant medical articles Heather Ruth I kneel for the fallen. Oorah 775-482-9414 775-482-4623 cell
combined with eye-catching visual imagery and
uncluttered layout design. Nice work!
Tonopah Times Bonanza PO Box 748 • Tonopah, NV 89049
Kids Fishing Derby
Second Place
Judge’s Comment:
Elko Daily Free Press Cute artwork, clean layout.
Mining Quarterly
Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards 5
advertising
Rural Urban Magazines
COLOR PRINT AD COLOR PRINT AD COLOR PRINT AD
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Nevada Appeal
7@7 Spadea Wenzel
Nevada Magazine
Nissan
Judge’s Comment: Walker Lake/Mineral Co.
Outstanding use of colors and images to capture
Judge’s Comment:
attention. Well designed layout. Judge’s Comment:
Perfect photo and vibrant colors.
Eye-catching imagery and well-organized layout.
Second Place
Second Place
David Sly Second Place
Dolores Sarantes
Las Vegas Review-Journal Dany Haniff
Pahrump Valley Times
Las Vegas Weekly
Vegas Nation Magazine Ad
Happy 65th Anniversary Las Vegas Weekly Voter Activation
Judge’s Comment:
Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment:
Nice use of eye-catching image along with well-
Beautiful and elegant, just like this couple executed layout. Great use of color and font and strategic use of
celebrating 65 years. Love the color combinations. image to compel action around the message.
Third Place
Third Place Third Place
Jorge Betancourt, David Sly,
Mike McGarvey Dany Haniff
Lahontan Valley News
Malachi Schlink
Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Weekly
Head Start program Las Vegas Weekly Voter Participation
Air Supply Magazine Ad
Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment:
Judge’s Comment: Nice use of color and font and unique layout.
Bright, attention grabbing, busy but not too busy,
great layout. Image does nice job capturing readers’ attention.
Rural
SPECIAL SECTION OR CAMPAIGN (ADVERTISING)
Second Place
Heather Ruth
Pahrump Valley Times Tara Addeo
The Record-Courier
2020 Graduation Issue
Best Of Carson Valley
Judge’s Comment:
Nicely done! Love the names on the cover, and all the creativity in the ad design. Judge’s Comment:
The baby section is a great idea! Good creativity in the ad design and the categories are easy to read. I like the gloss
cover, but wish it was stitched and trimmed. Maybe that was not an option.
6 Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards
advertising
Urban Urban
ADVERTISING INNOVATION IN-HOUSE ADVERTISING
Chase Rankin
Las Vegas Review-Journal
www.lasvegasnewhomesguide.com
7@7, 7-Minute Newscast D I S TR I BUTI ON -
OV ER 390 L OCATI ON S
Distributed at supermarkets
N EW HOME and many convenience stores
throughout the Las Vegas Valley
VA L UES
Judge’s Comment: Your advertised properties in
Las Vegas Valley Locations
14 Lee's Discount Liquors
the Guide to Las Vegas New 6 La Bonita
16,500
Excellent concept and execution. The sponsorships Homes will be included in 4 Cardeña's
our new Las Vegas Review- printed monthly 4 Mariana's
Journal section New Home 26 Albertsons/Sav-on
are presented in a thoughtful, non-intrusive Values More than 390 additional locations
manner that does not distract from the content,
Select Real Estate offices
yet it delivers the audience an advertiser may be
D EMOG R A P HI CS
seeking. College Graduate
4+ Years
49% YOY
78,600 Readers 57%
(Total Clark County Average 25,100 | 25%
Issue Reader)
Second Place A D D R ES S A BL E G EO-F EN CI N G
Median Age
To drive more traffic to your
ad, community sales offices
51
Emma Cauthorn
which do not advertise in the
Guide to Las Vegas New Homes 51% 49%
will be Geo-Fenced. Walk-ins
will be served an ad on their
Las Vegas Weekly
Smartphone which links to your
nearby community in digital
edition of the Guide to Las 2+ employed
Own 60% in household
Vegas New Homes.
Average Income 55,600 | 56%
$73,300
Various examples of native
2 person household
Readers earning $75,000+ 29,000 | 29%
2021 Rate Card
40.6%
3-4 person household
Median Income
CUSTOM ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES Rent 38% 44,400 | 45%
Buyers Home
$52,900
advertising B R I N G I N G
Many exciting and creative options are available that will add
impact to any advertising campaign. Contact your advertising
Other 6.3%
representative for details.
Hispanic 29.9%
702.383.0346 OR 702.383.0488 Asian 5.1%
FOR DETAILS African American 22.6%
Caucasian 66%
Judge’s Comment:
Source: Scarborough, Release 1, 2020 (Average Issue Readership)
Excellent design and concept.
Third Place
Angie Gutting Second Place
Bob Conrad Las Vegas Review-Journal Olivia Kuntz, Malachi Schlink
This is Reno
New Homes Guide Las Vegas Review-Journal
Kathleen Sigurdson for Judge Media Kit Aging Wellness
Rural Magazines, Urban, Rural
IN-HOUSE ADVERTISING DIGITAL AD
Elko Daily Free Press Dany Haniff
AAA Student of the Week Las Vegas Weekly
Voter activation
Judge’s Comment:
Fantastic idea! I’m sure the advertisers really see Judge’s Comment:
and feel the value of their participation. And love This ad had it all, including colorful, engaging audio that doesn’t
that there are three winners! Very clever. make your ears bleed. The message was simple and effective and it
was direct and targeted.
Second Place
Mike McGarvey Second Place Third Place
Nevada Appeal
Malachi Schlink, Susan Goddard
Love Notes David Memmott Elko Daily Free Press
Las Vegas Review- Rural Nevada
Judge’s Comment: Journal Development Corp.
I want to use this idea! I appreciate the leaning into
the ‘old fashioned’ notion of sending a love note to Kroil
your loved one. I bet they turned out darling. Great Judge’s Comment:
approachable price point too. Judge’s Comment: While this ad is busy in terms
of banner, it’s really hard to
For something as unsexy as
produce something for a rural
lubricant spray, this ad was not
Third Place business development program.
overpowering. The product and
And, yet very easily, the reader
Heather Ruth the slogan were excellent and
is able to tell what it is about
the multiple ad sizes could be
Pahrump Valley Times used very effectively around
and generate some interest. It’s
a great example of squeezing a
content on different sites and
PVT On The Go platforms.
lot of information in a relatively
small space.
Judge’s Comment:
Solid, clean design.
Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards 7
URBAN
GENERAL EXCELLENCE GENERAL ONLINE EXCELLENCE NEWS FEATURE STORY
Las Vegas Las Vegas Siobhan McAndrew
Review-Journal Review-Journal Reno Gazette-Journal
Dying alone: A year of
Judge’s Comment: Judge’s Comment: lost goodbyes for Nevada
A complete newspaper: Spot news reporting on key Strong design guides readers through excellent families who go without closure
local issues; ambitious enterprise projects; strong online story telling. Great stories, photos, graphics, amid COVID-19
sports. Depth and diversity in opinion pages. And illustrations and advertising in an easily navigable,
a grabby, accessible, and coherent design. Overall, well-designed site. Nicely done.
this is a paper that very capably and energetically Judge’s Comment:
reflects and serves its community. This is a beautifully written story that reflects
Second Place the agony we all suffered during the COVID-19
pandemic. This weaves a wonderful tale that gives
Second Place Reno Gazette-Journal the reader a front row seat to the pain thrust upon
us.
Las Vegas Weekly Judge’s Comment:
Another solid entry. News content is excellent. The
Judge’s Comment: Second Place
COVID hospital story was incredibly well done.
Las Vegas Weekly is a great read. It’s energetic and Strong design and good ad placement. This was a Jenny Kane
attractive, and its features bring you into the heart difficult category to judge.
of the city’s culture and history. Reno Gazette-Journal
Third Place Only through a window: Pandemic
Third Place
The Nevada Independent separates a mother from her
Las Vegas Sun daughter with special needs
Judge’s Comment:
Judge’s Comment: Fantastic infographics! Good organization Judge’s Comment:
A very attractive product. and summaries for legislative issues coverage.
Candidate breakdown for senate was excellent - I have rarely felt such frustration as I read this
really reader friendly. story about this mother’s struggle with her
daughter. I so wanted them to connect that I felt
like tapping on the window with her.
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION Third Place
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Wade Las Vegas Sun
Vandervort
Missing Lesly: Family struggles
Las Vegas Weekly
to cope with death of beloved
Fremont Sign: daughter
Star View Motel
Judge’s Comment:
This story made me love Lesly too. I thought it was
Judge’s Comment: wonderfully crafted and detailed the agony of this
Equally appealing in content, family.
quality, and use.
Second Place
Wade Vandervort VIDEO PROGRAM OR SERIES
Las Vegas Weekly
Las Vegas Review-
Las Vegas Cityscape Journal
Judge’s Comment: 7@7 Daily News Show
Great photo, great enhanced detail!
Judge’s Comment:
Very professional. Looks like a major studio tv
Third Place
broadcast.
Yasmina Chavez
Las Vegas Weekly Second Place
Vegas Band Luxury Meghan Burk, Todd Poth
Furniture Store Getaway Reno/Tahoe
#getVIRTUAL
Judge’s Comment:
An interesting concept and well
done manipulation of the photo
series.
8 Nevada Press Foundation 2021 Awards
URBAN
NEWS PHOTO COVERAGE BUSINESS SPOT NEWS STORY
6A | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2020 | RENO GAZETTE JOURNAL Jason Bean Subrina Hudson
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tweeted to his fellow front-line workers
who had just lost 5 patients to COVID in
less than two days. “Stay strong.”
Keeperman’s photo, taken the day
Nevada’s gig worker
Inside unemployment-filing site
the overflow unit opened, was shared by
a conservative blog that falsely claimed
it proved the pandemic was a hoax be-
Renown’s COVID-19
cause it did not show patients.
has bumpy start
The blog’s post went viral when
President Donald Trump retweeted it
and added, “Fake election results in Ne-
wards
vada, also!”
The pandemic is very real to Keeper-
man, who is just two years older than
the 41-year-old who will die of CO-
VID-19.
On Friday, three of his patients have
come off ventilators, so it’s a good day.
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“I have four others who, unfortunate-
ly, have developed the worst part of CO-
VID,” he said, his eyes tired and his ears Judge’s Comment: Informative and engaging coverage. While there has
been a decent amount of national coverage on the
swollen to the point they are painful to
touch. Layers of masks irritate his face
and skin after shifts that stretch beyond Documenting history
12 hours.
“Despite our best efforts, they aren’t sometimes means going where inadequacies of the unemployment filing process,
this felt uniquely personal in its approach.
going to make it out of here.”
‘Minute by minute we are it’s uncomfortable, potentially
hazardous, to show readers
watching them’ With caregivers seen in a reflection, a patient lies intubated in his bed in the Intensive Care Unit devoted to those inflicted
with COVID-19 at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno on Dec. 11. The patient provided a media release for photos but
“Even though you don’t see it, doesn’t his name was withheld. PHOTOS BY JASON BEAN
mean it is not happening,” Renown ICU
what few will ever see and to
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nurse Amelia Edwards tells her friends,
create a record of events, like
family and anyone who will listen.
“If you could just take the time to
wear the mask, and wash your hands,
and do the social distancing that is be-
ing asked of you, it could prevent more this one, that will be revisited Sean Golonka
than you actually know.”
You never know who and how it will
for many decades. These photos
strike, she wants to tell the people who
don’t feel sick but still may pass the vi-
rus on to someone she will try to save do that very well, and they do it The Nevada Independent
today.
on a human scale.
Amazon surpasses Walmart for
Edwards says it feels like a million Critical Care Provider Dr. Richard King
years since she was the little girl fixing poses for a portrait at Renown
up her dolls to make them well again. Regional Medical Center in Reno on
Now, she talks about her job as if going Dec. 11.
most Nevada employees and
into battle.
“I have held up iPads to a patient so
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their family can say goodbye,” she says
dependents on Medicaid
just before starting a recent shift.
“No matter who they are, I know the
most terrible thing in the world in this
Jason Bean
situation is to be alone.”
There is no sitting down for Edwards, A caregiver helps a patient undergo dialysis in the Intensive Care Unit devoted
who goes into work knowing she puts to COVID-19 patients at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno on Dec. 11.
her own life at risk.
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The young mother said she sees
young patients dying. They look like her.
They are not the older people who were
at first thought to be the only ones at ICU nurse Lynsey Bodek looks in on a
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great risk of dying from COVID-19.
“Minute by minute we are watching
patient at Renown Regional Medical
Center in Reno on Dec. 11. Very interesting story with important implications
them,” she said of her patients. “We are
constantly updating the doctor.”
Conversations are fast.
Civil unrest in about our current economy. Very well written and
downtown Reno structured.
“We have just now (started) this per-
son on this medication,” she will tell a
doctor just before calling back again.
“Now we have maxed the person on this
medication.”
A few minutes later, “Now, we are
maxed on all the medications, what’s
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our next step?”
The outcomes are tough to handle.
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For Edwards, she takes a minute away in
a corner stairwell to escape.
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“I walk up and down the stairs and Emergency room Dr. Ross Albright
can see the outside,” she said. pauses while speaking with the RGJ at
Benjamin Hager,
She took another nurse there after a Renown Regional Medical Center in
patient died. Reno on Dec. 11.
“She had fought all morning and ad-
vocated and strived to help her patient Reno Gazette-Journal
L.E. Baskow, Chase
and he ended up passing.” day and an additional 20 to 40 who may
“Here is my fake fresh air,” she said to be transferred from other facilities.
Skipping the line: Lack of oversight
the other nurse as they looked out the There are COVID patients throughout
Stevens
stairwell windows together. Recovering COVID-19 patient Luis Martinez speaks with his caregivers at the the hospital including in the pediatric
Alternative Care Site at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno on Dec. 11. The and labor and delivery rooms and put-
‘Death is on their mind’ ACS is located on the first floor of the Mill St. parking garage. ting everyone in a safe place for care is a
plagues COVID vaccine deployment
24/7 operation.
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King uses the word “unprecedented” “Sometimes, we have just run out of
as he talks about the codes written on room,” Morris said.
in Northern Nevada
ICU windows, retrofitting garages to ing their buddy next to them,” he said. gets better.”
squeeze in more beds and the stagger- King is a recent transplant to Nevada, ‘You become numb to it’
ing patient-to-staff ratios. recruited from Redding, Calif., to start a ‘We never run’
His staff are treating two and three neurological intensive care unit before Meliza Ramirez-Najera is already
times the number of patients on a shift
compared to just a few months ago.
On this Friday, this ICU is just fin-
the pandemic hit.
Now, he spends his time focused on
COVID, half doing administrative work
Somewhere between walking and
running is how Lyndsay Knight gets
through her shift.
tired before her Friday shift.
A manager in Renown’s environmen-
tal engineering department, she over-
Lonely Las Vegas
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Strip
ished being adapted to place two pa- and overseeing a team of 14 ICU doctors, “You never know what is going to sees the staff of 150 who clean hospital
tients in every room. and the rest at patients’ bedside. happen, but we never run,” said Knight, rooms.
“Unprecedented,” he says again, “They are arriving at the hospital who works in Renown’s emergency “Good afternoon team,” she says at a
calmly. It’s hard to surprise King about
the challenges of learning about a virus
faster than they are recovering,” he said.
An avid hiker, he compares the surg-
room. “We work efficiently. Running
wouldn’t be efficient, but we do walk
pre-shift meeting. “Happy Monday to
my Monday people and happy Friday to Interesting, direct approach to the topic.
while trying to fight it. es to climbing mountains. fast.” my Friday people.”
“There have been two days where I “You get to the top of a peak and real- Knight talks about the steady stream This Friday, 99 of the 645 people in
had to sit down in my chair and just take ize you have another peak to get to the that starts to grow as the day grows Renown’s hospital beds are being dis-
a deep breath and realize where we top,” he said. “The problem is we don’t longer. charged. Ramirez-Najera is short
were.” know when this will end. “ It is often people who went to bed the staffed, and employees are expected to
Those days were when Renown had For the patients, the ICU is frighten- night before hoping they would feel bet- work 10 hour shifts six days a week
to create a COVID-19 ICU, borrowing ing. ter when they woke up. When they when the hospital is this full.
monitors from other parts of the hospi- “Death is on their mind and they are don’t, they wait a little longer. It’s mandatory, she said.
tal and improvise. lonely,” he said. “You can’t even see your Then they start showing up, or call- “Make sure you are still wearing your
The second day was just recently caretaker’s face. You hear them muffled ing for help. Ambulances have been 10 eye protection at all times and make
when he realized they are very close to through masks and helmets.” deep in the bay, waiting to unload pa- sure you’re wearing your N95s,” she tells
doubling up patients in those same
rooms.
Like Edwards, he compares it to a
It’s not the kind of medicine King
wants to practice. He said he is embar-
rassed to admit he doesn’t know his pa-
tients.
Patients sometimes line the halls
waiting for treatment or a hospital bed.
her staff. “Because you never know
what we are going to get ourselves into.”
Ramirez-Najera said her staff is not
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battle as he walks the 6th floor unable to tients as well as he used to. Finding a place for them all can be like a always informed if the patient who was
find enough staff to treat patients. “In a critical care situation, that is giant game of chess. just in the room they are cleaning had
There aren’t enough traveling nurses uncomfortable, but that’s field hospital That’s where Mel Morris, director of COVID-19.
Martha Menendez
and doctors to supplement staff as hos- medicine.” Renown’s Transfer Center, comes into She talks about coworkers who have
pitals across the country face the same He worries as people arrive sicker play. been exposed to the virus, and those
shortages. and his patients are younger, the virus Like an air traffic controller, on doz- who are now sick. Coworkers have end-
“There are no more people. This is attacking their cardiovascular system ens of screens she and her team look to ed up being treated for the virus in the
like what we are used to seeing in battle- causing clots in veins, lungs and brain. place patients all over the hospital.
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perfect description of this scheme to replace local Carrie Kaufman
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‘Am I going to die?’
Inside Renown’s ICU where
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caregivers
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collecting the stories of unsung heroes and people
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community reporting presented in a way that helps Women Inspiring Nevada
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photographs Reno during its Best of Vegas
darkest hours. EDITORIAL WRITING
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I hung on every single word of this very well-written Las Vegas Review-Journal special-section challenge: How to make a timeworn
piece. This journalist doesn’t just talk about a idea look fresh. This section succeeds brilliantly.
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Thoughtful coordination of text, images, hed
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As good as journalists are at looking back at things
stood up well to predicted arguments. breaking news.
that happen on anniversaries, this was a surprising
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the argument that this somewhat iconic film that
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an excellent piece of journalism.
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important issues. striking and elegant. Inside pages are clean and
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What Happened Here
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Comprehensive, insightful and opening with a
killer lede — this is first (or second) rough draft of
history material.
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Half of Washoe’s COVID-19 deaths
came from one Reno nursing home.
Here’s what went wrong
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Several strong entries in this category. This entry
and other winners were distinguished by combining
solid reporting with effective storytelling.
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Megan Messerly story and celebrating with the family. All around
The Nevada Independent Reunited at last good photo and placement. Job well done!
Life, liberty and the pursuit of
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Siberian Huskies on the run What Happened Here —
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Generation Zoom
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pandemic began. This one stood out for the emotion
Where Barriers Were it evoked.
Broken
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Reed partnering with ICE
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Acrobatic catch at Arrowhead Stadium
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the background with his hand over his heart.
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Fine Art, Lance Smith
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lighting that emphasizes the jewelry and features of the subject, and
I love the movement and light in the background that to me implies
brushstrokes as might befit a portrait of an artist.
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A Twist of Fate
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profession of the subjects and a warm bond between them—while still
being sharp and strongly composed.
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Well-centered, up close image of intense
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capture a sort of dynamic, zany vibe. It’s obviously challenging to shoot
indoors in low light and the photo has some fuzziness and what looks
like a reddish cast, but the capture of the subject is just so engaging
that good enough on the technical side is good enough here.
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dive into the man, the project and the industry. House, with some GOP support, impeaches LeeAnn Elias
The framing of the story as a gambler making a bet,
Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’ Las Vegas Review-Journal
while not the most original concept, really works
here thanks to quality writing and good use of By Nicholas Fandos
The New York Times Company
context. The House on Wednesday
impeached President Donald
Trump for inciting a violent
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insurrection against the United
Bill Wambeke
States government, as 10 mem-
bers of the president’s party
joined Democrats to charge him
with high crimes and misde-
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meanors for an unprecedented
second time.
Reconvening under the
threat of continued violence
and the protection of thousands
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Jenny Kane
of National Guard troops, the
House was determined to hold
Trump to account just one week
before he was to leave office. At
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issue was his role in encouraging
a mob that attacked the Capitol
one week ago while Congress
met to affirm President-elect Joe
Biden’s victory, forcing lawmak-
Partying like it’s February 2020:
ers to flee for their lives in a dead-
ly rampage.
The House adopted a single
article of impeachment, voting
232-197 to charge Trump with
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“inciting violence against the
government of the United States”
and requesting his immediate
removal from office and disqual-
own amid COVID-19
ification from ever holding one
again. ALEX BRANDON / AP
Ten Republicans joined Dem-
ocrats in voting to impeach: Reps. President Donald Trump walks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, as they board Air Force One upon arrival Tuesday in Harlingen, Texas,
Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the par- after visiting a section of the border wall with Mexico in Alamo, Texas. Graham on Tuesday joined the chorus of Republicans asking the House to
ty’s No. 3 leader in the House; reject an article of impeachment against Trump in the name of national unification. Wednesday, the House rejected Graham’s plea and impeached
Jaime Herrera Beutler and Trump for inciting last week’s rioting at the U.S. Capitol.
Dan Newhouse of Washington;
Why remove Trump now? A guide to the impeachment
John Katko of New York; Adam
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and Peter Meijer of Michigan;
Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; David
Valadao of California and Tom
The entry managed to cut through the pandemic Rice of South Carolina.
The defections were a remark-
able break from the head of the
By Catie Edmondson
The New York Times Company
dent-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Democrats have moved swift-
ly to impeach Trump in the wake
The process took place with
extraordinary speed, raising
questions never contemplated
duct and abuse of power.
Members of the House con-
sider whether to impeach the
noise with such heart and grace that it topped party by Republicans, who voted
unanimously against impeach-
ing Trump just over a year ago.
WASHINGTON — The House
on Wednesday impeached Presi-
dent Donald Trump for a second
of the assault, which unfolded
after he told supporters at a rally
near the National Mall to march
before. Here’s what we know.
Impeachment is one of the
president — the equivalent of an
indictment in a criminal case —
and members of the Senate con-
some of the more intensively reported entries. Rep. Mark Amodei, the lone
Republican in the Nevada con-
gressional delegation, voted
time, a first in American history,
charging him with “incitement
of insurrection” one week after
on the Capitol in an effort to get
Republicans to overturn his
reelectiondefeat. At least five
Constitution’s gravest penalties.
Impeachment is one of the
weightiest tools the Constitution
sider whether to remove him,
holding a trial in which senators
act as the jury. The test, as set by
The writing offered some of the most original against impeachment; the three
[See Impeach, Page 5]
he egged on a mob of supporters
that stormed the Capitol while
Congress met to formalize Presi-
people, including a Capitol Police
officer, died during the siege and
in the immediate aftermath.
gives Congress to hold govern-
ment officials, including the pres-
ident, accountable for miscon-
the Constitution, is whether the
[See Why now?, Page 5]
descriptions that captured the place, emotions
frustrations and joys of the people there. PANDEMIC THE SUN’S
Getting casino workers vaccinated key to
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Wednesday.
economic recovery, industry officials say 1 General public could get COVID
vaccine starting next week in Las
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Vegas. The plan announced this
week assumes that the Southern Neveada
By Bryan Horwath Health District has massive amounts of vac-
A version of this story was posted cine doses on hand. That’s been a weakness
across Nevada.
Jackie Valley 2
on lasvegassun.com.
Metro Police investigating whether
Moving resort workers to the fast lane employees took part in Capitol riot.
for coronavirus vaccines could be the lit- Metro Police officials, in an email
eral shot in the arm needed to get tourists statement Tuesday, said they had received
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back to Nevada, casino industry officials information that some of its employees
said. “may have participated” in last week’s march
Gov. Steve Sisolak and state health on the Capitol.
officials this week announced that resort
employees and other essential workers, 3 Nevada lawmaker resigns amid
campaign finance investigation.
Tourism-dependent businesses
ranging from government employees Assemblyman Alex Assefa, D-Las
and teachers to food-service and airport Vegas, tendered his resignation to Gov.
workers, would be granted access to what Steve Sisolak on Monday in a letter .
amounts to an express lane to get the
4 Carson City braces for potential
armed protests ahead of Biden
reckon with COVID-19’s financial
COVID-19 vaccine.
The groups of essential workers, inauguration. The FBI on Monday
referred to the “Tier 1 lane,” are out- warned of armed protests being planned in
lined in Nevada’s COVID-19 Vaccination all 50 states and in Washington leading up
Playbook Version 3, available online at to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration
aftermath
https://bit.ly/3qhj5y7. on Jan. 20.
As of 2019, more than 25% of all work-
ers in Nevada were employed in the lei-
sure and hospitality sectors, according to STEVE MARCUS (2020)
5 Getting Las Vegas casino workers
vaccinated key to economic recov-
ery, industry officials say. The
strategy “will accelerate the consumer con-
the resort association.
Appointments for the Tier 1 lane work- Visitors play craps Oct. 28, 2020, during the opening of Circa in downtown Las Vegas. fidence needed to drive the visitor volume
Acknowledging the importance of tourism to the state’s economy, Nevada officials this our economy depends on,” a resort indus-
[See Vaccine, Page 5] week helped workers in the service industry jump the line for the COVID-19 vaccine. try group spokeswoman said.
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telling the story of the pandemic, and this story did
a fine job of showing the fragility of businesses that
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restauranteurs to prepare authentic meals and
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Josie Glassberg authentic tastes with experts. This is a great
Double Scoop Virtual Food and Cocktail format during the pandemic and a way to reinvent
community.
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