The Express Weekly News won a number of Premiere awards along with General excellence at the 103rd annual Manitoba Community Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Competition held in Winnipeg over the weekend. The awards were the first ones held since the COVID pandemic and are for the 2021 newspapers.
The Express placed first for its Front Page General Excellence for circulation 3,600-9,999 and 3rd in the Best in Class in the same circulation size.
The Premiere Awards are judged against writers from newspapers all across the province.
The Express Weekly News placed first in the General Excellence for circulation 3,600-9,999 for its Front Page and third in the Best in Class in the same circulation size.
Reporter Patricia Barrett received several Premiere writing awards: First – Best column or Feature Article on a Business Topic, Gimli pub gets $5,000 fine after inspector characterizes staff as members; First – Best Education story, ESD unsure how schools will be supported given education property tax cut; First – Best News, Interlake livestock farmers using winter feed; province, federal assistance a Band-Aid solution; Second – Best Health, Interlake paramedics put in ‘dangerous and dire’ situation and Third – Best Habitat Conservation, Farming and water retention go hand in hand in Poplarfield.
The Express Weekly News is part of the independently and community owned newspaper chain Big and Colourful Printing and Publishing, which also owns and operates Interlake Graphics, the Stonewall Teulon Tribune, Winkler Morden Voice, Selkirk Record, Altona Rhineland Voice and the Carman Dufferin Standard.
Our sister papers also received multiple honours for the year.
The Tribune placed first in Best in Class, second in Best Layout and Design, and second in Best Front Page in the General Excellence circulation 3600-9,999 category.
The Tribune also won a number of premiere writing awards: first in the Best Health Story, Stonewall woman, 100 forced to give up hospital bed by Patricia Barrett; first in the Best Arts & Culture, Local craftsman replicates traditional Red River cart by Tyler Searle; second in Best Agriculture Story, Let’s talk turkey – June is Turkey Month in Manitoba by Tyler Searle; second in Best Feature, Hearing Aids open ‘a whole new world’ for Teulon girl, by Iris Dyck; second – Best Editorial by Evan Matthews and third in Best Photo Essay, Remembrance Day by Lana Meier.
The Winkler Morden Voice won Best All Around Newspaper for the province and several General Excellence and Premiere writing awards.
The Voice also won first in Best in Class in the General Excellence 10,000 plus circulation and first in Best Editorial Page.
In the Premiere writing category, the Voice received third in the Best News Story, “It can feel a little bit like a slap in the face,” by Ashleigh Viveiros; third in Best Health Story, “People need to know we have limited capacity,” by Ashleigh Viveiros; third in Best Education Story, Trustees reeling in wake of planned education changes by Lorne Stelmach and third in the Best Environmental Story category, Shoring up Dead Horse Creek by Lorne Stelmach.
The Selkirk Record won second in Best in Class in the General Excellence circulation 10,000 plus along with second for its Front Page and third in Best Layout and Design and Best Front Editorial Page.
The Record’s Brett Mitchell placed second for Photographer of the year and won third for Best Sports Photo.
