Awards

The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group contains some of the best community newspapers in the country. Our papers earn high honors in state and regional competitions, but they also have garnered more widely recognized awards.

Four Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to three of our papers: The Press Democrat and The Tuscaloosa News each earned one, and The Gainesville Sun was honored with two.

In recent years, our newspapers and their newsroom staff members have repeatedly won top awards in international competitions of the Association of Food Journalists and the Society for News Design; and in the national contests of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Many of these larger honors were first recognized with a win in the monthly Chairman's Awards contest sponsored by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the chairman of The New Times Co. Two Chairman's Awards are presented each month and winners receive a check for $500 and a personal letter from Sulzberger.

In this Pulitzer Prize winning shot, Press Democrat photographer Annie Wells captured firefighter Don Lopez grabbing a sapling after diving into a flooded creek to rescue Marglyn Paseka, 15, from the rapidly rising water.
CREDIT: Annie Wells, The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa