Baltimore Sun wins National Headliner Award for Key Bridge collapse coverage
The Sun placed first in the breaking news category for newspapers of all sizes.
Judges lauded the staff's strong and well-crafted 'shoe-leather' reporting on the disaster that claimed the lives of six construction workers on the bridge and ripped a hole in the fabric of the city and state.
'The Baltimore Sun staff showed good, concise writing in their coverage from the field of the breaking news, the cause of the news event, and the effects it had on not only Baltimore, but the East Coast. Readers appreciate efforts like this,' the judges said.
Founded by the Press Club of Atlantic City in 1934, the National Headliner Awards is one of the oldest and largest journalism contests in the country.
The Sun has won several National Headliner Awards in the past.
In 2018, the news organization was the recipient of two National Headliner Awards, including for a four-part series that explored the issue of school segregation, and a second-place award in the local news beat coverage category for its coverage of corruption in the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force unit.
The Sun won first place in spot news in 2016 for coverage of the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent protests. That same year, it also won second place for a news series that followed three students who had recently immigrated to Baltimore.
In 2015, the news organization won first-place for spot news coverage in 2015 of a shooting at the Mall in Columbia.
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