The staff of the Smoky Mountain News won 18 advertising awards, including three first-place honors, as well as 16 editorial awards, including five fir.
For the second straight year, the annual Colorado Press Association convention was a virtual event.
The Daily Sentinel was recognized at the convention with the general excellence award for the newspapers with the largest circulation in the state.
The Sentinelâs advertising and graphic design department also took home the Advertising Sweepstakes award with four first-place awards and one second-place award.
Because of the contest period â from Nov. 1, 2019, to Oct. 31, 2020 â being mostly in the COVID-19 time, the contest categories for advertising, editorial and photo and design were greatly condensed into fewer ones.
For advertising, the Sentinelâs first-place awards were for classified section, best digital advertisement, best use of digital advertising and best promotional advertisement.