CHARLOTTE — The Catholic News Herald has earned six awards, including three first-place honors, from the North Carolina Press Association for its work published in 2023.
Photographer Troy Hull won a first-place award for his video “Mass honors Igbo Catholic heritage” featuring the Igbo community at St. Mary’s Parish in Greensboro. Hull and Spanish media manager César Hurtado also won a first-place award for their collaborative photo essay featuring Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day celebrations around the Diocese of Charlotte.
Staff writers Annie Ferguson and Christina Lee Knauss also won a first-place award for their story showcasing the Diocese of Charlotte’s missions,“Little churches with big hearts.”
Ferguson and Hull also won a second-place award for their multimedia project about St. Matthew parishioner and runner Jimmy Coleman, “Ultra-devoted: Catholic athlete runs 50 miles in Adoration.”
Multimedia designer David Puckett won second place for his design centerpiece “God’s Country” that spotlighted parishes along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the autumn.
Ferguson also won a third-place award in sports feature writing for “It’s good to be a Villain,” about Bishop McGuinness High School’s champion girls basketball team and its coach Brian Robinson.
The NCPA contest was judged by the Colorado Press Association.
Awards will be officially presented at the NCPA’s annual convention Sept. 19 in Raleigh.
— Catholic News Herald