BELLINGHAM – Several Free Press Publishing employees were honored Saturday, Oct. 8, for their work in the newspaper industry during the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association convention.
The convention included the Better Newspaper Contest awards gala.
John Myers won first place in the use of small space for his graphic design work for Wild Bill’s Longbar advertising.
Former reporter Matthew O. Stephens received a first-place portrait photography award and a second for general news photography. Staffer TeAire Baier took second place in portrait photography.
Publisher Roger Harnack received a second-place award for breaking news photography as well as second- and third-place awards for photography at the Ritzville and Basin City Freedom rodeos.
Former Whitman County Gazette Managing Editor Bill Stevenson took second in the weird news category for his coverage of the haunted hospital in Colfax.
Political cartoonist Brad Skiff, a Bridgeport teacher whose cartoons appear in The Journal each week, swept that category, taking first-, second- and third-places for his cartoon work.
Free Press Publishing also received a third-place award for its coverage of the state 1/2B basketball tournament last year in Spokane, with most of the content being photos taken by Olivia Harnack.
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