Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Independent Media has announced that its community newspaper,
The Commons, won 10 prizes in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, in divisions for weekly newspapers with circulation greater than 6,000.
The Commons is based in Brattleboro.
The awards for the newspaper, which covers Brattleboro and the surrounding towns and villages in Windham County, Vermont, included one first prize for Spot News Story for Randolph T. Holhut and Olga Peters, “Cash-strapped Retreat pursues shutdown after rebuke by state agency.”
The category awards exceptional work on stories that are unplanned, like this report, where Holhut and Peters broke down a temporary but public and escalating conflict between the Vermont Department of Public Health and the Brattleboro Retreat, a psychiatric hospital providing essential services to the state of Vermont.
NH Business Review
Publication honored for reporting, General Excellence
April 13, 2021
NH Business Review won nine awards in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2020 Better Newspaper Competition.
Bob Sanders won four awards. He took first-place honors for Business & Economic Reporting for his article on how property taxes are often the biggest tax burden facing New Hampshire businesses and for Health Reporting for his article on the limitations of importing prescription drugs from Canada.
His article on battery storage of electricity won third place in for Science/Technology Reporting and his article on how New Hampshire businesses are dealing with climate change won second place for Weather Reporting.