Post lands 7 awards, 3 first-place honors, in Green Eyeshade Awards
Frank Cerabino wins 10th first-place award of career at the Post.
The Palm Beach Post landed seven awards, including three wins in the Societ y of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards, which highlight the best in journalism in 11 states across the Southeast.
The run of wins includes a firstplace in humorous commentary for Frank Cerabino. A somewhat barbed ranking of the county’s worst and best cities, a wishful retelling of “Baywatch” in Boca Raton — “it ought to be a Boca story: the story about people who used to be somebody else” and the cheeky defense of a South Florida would-be Spanish teacher who doesn’t speak the language, all contributed to the columnist’s 10th first-place honor since coming to The Post in 1991.
Cerabino’s work also placed second in the serious commentary category.
Charles Elmore took first place in Online Business Reporting. Elmore’s Protecting Your Pocket blog and online stories were recognized for breaking news that influenced consideration of two candidates for Florida Insurance Commissioner — one of whom had never been asked about a bankruptcy that left him with $6 — and passage of a groundbreaking law to limit surprise medical bills for consumers. Other entries included the newspaper’s exclusive online property insurance guide and reporting that engaged readers about Spirit Airlines. The Post also took a first place for its digital presentation of Her- oin: Killer of a Generation, which among other things presented a thumbnail glimpse and photograph of every person in the count y who died in 2015 in a heroin-related overdose. Staffers Mike Stucka, Mark Buzek, Spe Chen and Melanie Mena crafted that presentation. That project also earned a second place in graphics for Rebecca Vaughan.
The Post’s Opinion Editor Rick Christie and writer Howard Goodman placed third in editorial writing for their work that chronicled the road to the November Sales Tax referendum exposing the pitfalls and pluses along the way. While sharply critic al of some of the decisions that went into the making of the proposal, the editorials’ ultimate support for it was credited as a factor in its victory.
Photographer Bruce R. Ben-