Dispatch wins 16 state journalism awards

The Dispatch was also awarded first place for its Suffering on Sullivant series, which detailed the problems on a stretch of the city plagued by prostitution, drugs and violence.

The Columbus Dispatch and Dispatch.com won 16 awards in Ohio's Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. The awards were presented in a virtual ceremony Friday night.

The newspaper won seven first-place awards, including best reporter in Ohio. That honor went to senior reporter Holly Zachariah.

The Dispatch was also awarded first place for its Suffering on Sullivant series, which detailed the problems on a stretch of the city plagued by prostitution, drugs and violence.

Other first-place awards included: Joey Kaufman, best sports profile; Ken Gordon, best arts reporting; Danae King, best religion reporting; Rita Price, best explanatory journalism; and Doral Chenoweth, best videography for his work with the Suffering on Sullivant series.

King also won a second place award for best explanatory journalism. Other second place awards went to Michael Grossberg, arts reporting; Josh Bickel, best photographer; Megan Henry, best medical reporting; Mike Wagner, best feature reporting; Alissa Widman Neese, best education reporting; Mark Williams, best consumer reporting; Dipatch.com staff, best website; and the Dispatch staff for best deadline reporting.

In other recent awards, King was honored with a national award by the Religion News Association.

She won the Cornell Award for Excellence in Religion Reporting — Mid-sized Newspapers.

KYLE ROBERTSON/COLUMBUS DISPATCH Jordan Anderson writes on a side of a building after a vigil one year after Donna was shot and killed by former Columbus police vice officer Andrew K. Mitchell, who was charged with murder, on Bellows Avenue in Franklinton on Aug. 23, 2019. The photo was part of the Dispatch’s Suffering on Sullivant series.