IPS Wins Five San Diego Press Club 2024 Excellence in Journalism Awards, Including Two for First Place
Impact Report, internal and external newsletters and documentary selected
SAN DIEGO – The Institute for Public Strategies is proud to announce it is the recipient of five honors in the San Diego Press Club’s 51st Anniversary Excellence in Journalism Awards for work done in Fiscal Year 2024.
IPS Digital Media Specialist Samuel Borden teamed with former student Mannix Gonzalez to win first place in the online video documentary category for Rebuild Mt. Empire High. They also won third place for video editing.
Chief Strategy Officer Sarah Blanch and Borden won second place in the public information annual report category for the IPS 2023 Impact Report.
In the in-house employee publications category, the IPS iNewsletter won first place and the IPS external newsletter PICture This won third place. Recipients in those awards included IPS Deputy Director Brittany Hunsinger, Media/GIS Director Meredith Gibson, Senior Media Specialist Paul Levikow, Borden, and the IPS staff.
More than 500 awards in 130 categories and 10 divisions were awarded to San Diego’s finest reporters, writers, artists, photographers, videographers, public relations professionals, and college media. Members of 15 journalism professional organizations from around the country, including press clubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Rochester, Florida, Cleveland, Orange County, Milwaukee, Tulsa and Alaska assisted with the judging. The awards were announced Oct. 22, 2024.
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