The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce two longtime sportswriters Donna Ditota and Mike Waters of Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard have been named to the SPC Wall of Distinction for 2024! This is the club’s highest honor. Born in Syracuse, Donna Ditota went to St. Bonaventure on a basketball scholarship, where she was a 4-year starter...
Congratulations to Glenn Coin, the weather, environment and science reporter for syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. He also covers Micron Technology's plans to build a $100 billion chip plant in Central New York....
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of our 2024 Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award. This award is presented to individuals whose high standards in performing their work serve as an inspiration to others. Congratulations to Charlie Ellis, the managing editor of The Palladium-Times. Charlie wanted to work for newspapers for as...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 A. Brohmann Roth Newcomer Award, based on stellar work by a young reporter in 2023. Congratulations to Darian Stevenson, a crime and public safety reporter at Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard. She was selected from a competitive group of talented new journalists in Central New York....
The finalists for each category are listed alphabetically by the first author's last name. ...
(Andy Wolf of CNYCentral / WSTM/WTVH, photo by Herm Card) Central and northern New York newsrooms gathered under one roof to celebrate the best of local journalism at the 2023 Syracuse Press Club awards. Nearly 200 guests attended the banquet on Saturday, May 6 to receive their awards and placements. Brad Vivacqua of Spectrum...
The Syracuse Press Club board is proud to announce the 2023 winner of our prestigious $2,000 Devesty-Williams Scholarship. Congratulations to Alexandra Elkins of Liverpool, N.Y.! Allie plans to becomes a sports journalist and is currently studying broadcast and media communications at Onondaga Community College. Next semester, she will transfer to St. Bonaventure University, as...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce Urban CNY’s longtime news editor and publisher Ken Jackson has been named to the SPC Wall of Distinction for 2023! This is the club’s highest honor. Ken has served as writer, publisher and editor of Urban CNY (The Constitution) for almost 35 years. As an original resident of...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of our 2023 Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award. This award is presented to individuals whose high standards in performing their work serve as an inspiration to others. Congratulations to Andy Wolf, news photographer at CNYCentral (NBC 3/CBS 5)! Andy Wolf started out making a living working...
Syracuse Press Club is thrilled to announce another class of ITC graduates will be certified by the Syracuse Journalism Lab this spring. SPC launched the Syracuse Journalism Lab in 2021 to prepare young people from underrepresented backgrounds for careers in media, and to connect Syracuse students with their local newsrooms. SPC will host a...