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O-R news staff wins Golden Quill award

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Liz Rogers

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JIM MCNUTT

Natalie Miller

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Rick Shrum

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Celeste Van Kirk

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Scott Beveridge

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Park Burroughs

PITTSBURGH – The editorial staff of the Observer-Reporter won a Golden Quill Award at The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania’s 54th annual awards presentation Thursday at the Rivers Casino.

The competition recognizes professional excellence in written, photographic, illustration, broadcast and online journalism in Western Pennsylvania and nearby counties in Ohio and West Virginia.

The news staff received a Golden Quill in the Digital Spot/Breaking News Coverage category for “Uptown Terror,” for coverage of the building collapse on North Main Street last July.

Several Observer-Reporter staffers were finalists in numerous categories including:

  • The Enterprise/Investigative category for “Drugs, Overdoses and Addiction” for ongoing coverage of the opioid epidemic in Washington and Greene counties.
  • Staff writer Scott Beveridge in the General Feature category for “Dropping Duckpins in Donora,” about a duckpin bowling alley. Beveridge also was a finalist in the Environment category for “Marianna Dam Removal Project Outlined.”
  • Natalie Reid Miller, Living section editor, in the General Feature category for “This Kid Should Have Everything,” a mother’s account of her son who took his own life.
  • Executive editor Liz Rogers in the Business/Technology/Consumer category for “Taking the Cake,” which featured Chatty Cupcakes, a cupcake vending business started by a Waynesburg mother and daughter.
  • Park Burroughs, retired executive editor, in the History category for “Pay or Die: A Story of the Black Hand,” a seven-part serial that chronicled the rise and fall in Washington County of what may be considered the precursor to the Mafia in the United States.
  • Photographer Celeste Van Kirk in the Spot News photo category for “They Didn’t Have to Shoot Him,” which showed a woman grieving for her grandson who had just been shot. Van Kirk also was a finalist for her sports photo, “Cold, Hard Fact,” which captured the emotion of soccer players following a goal.

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