CARSON CITY - Winnemucca Publishing earned several awards during this year's Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Nevada Press Association.
The awards were presented during the NPA's annual banquet Oct. 15 at Piper's Opera House in Virginia City.
The Humboldt Sun won two first-place awards, including Best Multi-Color Ad by Terrie Chism and former staffer Ellen Aker. Sierra Frazier also won first place in the Best-In House Promotion category.
Holly Rudy-James, J. Carmen Kofoed and staff took second place in the Community Service category, as did Rudy Herndon for Best Business Feature and Frazier for Best Multi-Color Ad.
David Gouger, Jen Anderson and Kofoed won third place in Best Overall Design and Best Page Designer(s). Other third-place winners included Joe Plummer and Kelley Morris for Best Large Space Ad, Plummer for Best Black and White Ad and Kofoed and Morris for Best Spot-Color Ad.
The Battle Mountain Bugle won two first-place awards, including Plummer and Lora Enget for Best Large Space Ad and Plummer for Best Multi-Color Ad.
Heather Singer won second place in the Best Explanatory Journalism category, as did Anderson, Kofoed and Gouger for Best Overall Design and Anderson and Gouger for Best Page Designer(s). Plummer also took second in the Best Black and White Ad and Best Multi-Color Ad categories. The Bugle staff also captured a second-place award in the Best Special Section (Advertising) category for the Mining 2010 edition.
The Bugle staff also took third in General Excellence and third in the Best Special Section (Advertising) category for High Desert Hunting. Plummer won a third-place award for Best Black and White Ad.
The Lovelock Review-Miner earned one first-place award by Chism in the Best Black and White Ad category. In addition, Anderson, Kofoed and Gouger took second for Best Page One Design and third for Best Overall Design.
Sandra Chereb, a reporter for The Associated Press in Carson City, was named AP's Nevada Staffer of the Year for 2011.
Tom Tait, AP news editor for Nevada and Utah, made the presentation at the banquet.
In presenting the award, Tait recognized Chereb for her coordination of last year's elections and coverage of the 2011 Nevada Legislature.
Chereb joined AP in June 1990 in the Reno bureau. In 2009 she moved to the Carson City bureau to cover state government and politics.
A 1979 graduate of Indiana University, Chereb's journalism career began at the Las Vegas Sun. She also previously worked for United Press International.
Member editors help select AP's staffer of the year, who receives a plaque and a check for $500.
In addition, three Nevada journalists who championed accuracy, compassion and fairness were honored posthumously by the NPA.
Guy Shipler, Mark Lundahl and John Smetana were inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame during the convention.
Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick also was honored as a champion of the First Amendment.
Known as the dean of the capital press corps, Shipler died in 1996. He was 82.
Lundahl and Smetana were longtime editors at the Reno Gazette-Journal. Lundahl, who was also president of the press association, died in 2010 after a sudden illness. He was 57. Smetana was 68 when he died in March.
Kirkpatrick, chairwoman of the Assembly Government Affairs Committee, was recognized for her efforts to make government more accountable to the public through open records.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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