The Northeast Times won eight Keystone Media Awards for items published in 2019, following judging by journalists in Colorado.
The announcement was made last week. The Times competes with other weekly papers in Pennsylvania with a circulation of more than 6,000. The Times prints about 100,000 papers each week. The papers are distributed in seven zones based on ZIP code.
Reporter Logan Krum won first place in the Feature Story category for a story on a Northeast man and woman who each lost a son to drug overdoses. Krum also finished second in that category for a story on a local Chinese-American man arrested by ICE and how his family is struggling without him.
Sports editor Joe Mason won second place in the Sports Breaking News/Event Coverage category for a story on Lincoln beating Frankford in football for the first time since 1979. Mason also won honorable mention in that category for a story on Northeast High wrestler Jameel Coles taking fifth place at the state wrestling tournament.
Former managing editor Melissa Mitman won second place in the Special Section category for a pullout on the Times’ 2019 high school sports banquet. She also earned honorable mention in the Sport Feature Photo and Headline Writing categories.
Former reporter Jack Tomczuk won second place in News Beat Reporting for a series of stories on local violent crime.
Meanwhile, Samantha Bambino, a writer for the Lower Bucks Times, a sister paper of the Northeast Times, won second place in the Lifestyle/Entertainment Beat. ••
