Award-Winning Stories
Honored repeatedly over its long history, the Vineyard Gazette has received more than 65 journalism awards in the last three years alone from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.
The New England Better Newspaper Competition receives about 3,000 nominations each year in categories that span news reporting, commentary, photography, design, promotions and advertising. The distinguished panel of judges includes present and past editors, reporters and journalism educators.
For 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Gazette won the top award, first place for general excellence, among small weekly newspapers. Judges in 2012 called the newspaper “a delight to read” and in 2011, “an outstanding, fascinating weekly newspaper. Superb newspaper writing.”
Here is a selection of stories, photographs and designs that have been recognized by NENPA over the past several years.
In 1992, Charlie Shipway took to the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, sailing in the Barcelona Olympic games as a representative of the U.S. Virgin...
“There’s my hero,” said Martha’s Vineyard Surfcasters Association president Janet Messineo as Emanuel Thompson walked into the Beach Plum...
I have mixed feelings about going to the Agricultural Fair. This has nothing to do with the fair itself, which at 150-years-old has aged...
And then there were eight.
Eight tennis teams left playing in the MIAA Team Tournament as the section finals got underway last Friday afternoon....
Martha’s Vineyard is growing rapidly more populous, older and more diverse according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Census...
Story will be fending for itself this summer on the stages of Martha’s Vineyard. Stripped like the economy (and because of it), this season...
The remnants of a shipwreck turned up on South Beach near Wasque last weekend, following a series of winter storms that have pounded and eaten...
