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The March DFMie winners, and a hiatus announcement
The March DFMie winners show the wide range of top-flight work being done in Digital First newsrooms. Here’s a breakdown of the winning works, followed by comments from the judges below. Note: The...
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Beyond Project Thunderdome: What’s next for the staff?
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Follow the 2nd Annual DFMie awards presentation today, right here
Today we honor Digital First Media’s (DFM) most impressive journalism from 2013. DFM journalists from all over the country have congregated in St. Paul, Minn. for the 2nd Annual DFMie award...
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February’s DFMie winners expose pay excess, cover nuclear leak and more
February’s DFMie-winning journalism ranged from coverage of a nuclear waste leak to an effort to identify people in old photos to exposing excessive pay of a school superintendent. Here’s a break down...
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Julia Prodis Sulek, Sean Hiller and Matt Goul win February Tout Bout
We have three Tout Bout winners to applaud in conjunction with the Feburary DFMie awards: Julia Prodis Sulek, Matt Goul and Sean Hiller. Julia Prodis Sulek, Bay Area News Group Sulek of the Bay Area...
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The winners of the 2nd annual DFMie awards are …
The Denver Post and York Daily Record each won four 2014 DFMies for the best work of last year by Digital First Media staff members. Three clusters where multiple newsrooms collaborate on news coverage...
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DFMies: Jessica Glenza is Journalist of the Year for small dailies
Jessica Glenza won the DFMie as Journalist of the Year in small-daily newsrooms for her work as a reporter for the Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn. As one of four Journalist of the Year winners,...
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Adam Lauridsen wins Community Blogger DFMie for ‘Fast Break’
Adam Lauridsen’s Golden State Warriors fan blog Fast Break, affiliated with the Bay Area News Group, won the 2014 Community Blogger DFMie. The nomination said: Misery loves company, so Golden State...
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Rick Mills wins Opinion Journalism DFMie for fighting court secrecy
Rick Mills, editor of the Morning Sun in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., won the 2014 Opinion Journalism DFMie for his columns challenging court secrecy. The nomination explains: Unusual secrecy surrounding a...
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Karen Workman wins SEO Headline Writing DFMie
Karen Workman of Thunderdome won the 2014 SEO Headline Writing DFMie. The nomination explains: Karen Workman has emerged as a leader of Thunderdome’s efforts to publish the best possible headlines,...
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Jim Steinberg, Rachel Luna and Paul Penzella win Watchdog DFMie
Jim Steinberg, Rachel Luna and Paul W. Penzella won the 2014 Special DFMie for Watchdog Journalism for their project on continued contamination of drinking water in Hinkley, Calif. The San Bernardino...
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Charlie Brennan wins Investigative/Enterprise DFMie
Charlie Brennan of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., won the Investigative/Enterprise DFMie for small newsrooms for breaking a story that had stayed a secret for more than decade. On Jan. 27, 2013,...
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Jason Plotkin is Journalist of the Year for mid-sized dailies
Jason Plotkin Multimedia journalist Jason Plotkin of the York Daily Record won the 2014 Journalist of the Year DFMie for mid-sized newsrooms. The editors’ nomination detailed his outstanding year....
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Daily Camera wins Breaking News DFMie for flood coverage
The staff of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., won the 2014 Breaking News DFMie for its coverage of September flooding. The nomination explains: The first full weekend of September 2013 along...
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Christopher Gotsill wins Print Front Page DFMie
Christopher Gotsill of the Bay Area News Group won the 2014 Print Front Page DFMie for his April 21 cover addressing teens’ views about rape. The editors’ nomination explains: Taking a topic that is...
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Behind the DFMies: Lessons from harassment reporting and surfing coverage
This is the fifth in a series of five Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. January’s DFMie winners included a repeat winner for event coverage and a strong example of watchdog reporting...
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MVP award goes to the editor who led our Olympics coverage
If a gold medal were to be given out for Digital First Media’s national coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics, we’d have to give it to the guy who led the show: Thunderdome sports editor Gary Kicinski....
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Behind the DFMies: January winners share breaking news advice
This is the fourth in a series of five Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. Digital First Media journalists in New Mexico, Massachusetts and Ohio won January DFMies for their swift...
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Make smart NCAA tournament picks with help of Bracket Advisor
Whether you are a college basketball expert or novice, our Bracket Advisor tool can help you make educated selections in your March Madness pool. Thunderdome’s NCAA Tournament tool is up and running,...
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Here’s what Sean Adkins took away from NICAR14
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of reports from three Digital First Media journalists who attended NICAR14 through the Digital First Represents program. Late last year, a worker at York...
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