The Providence Business News was among 21 Rhode Island newspapers and magazines recognized by the Rhode Island Press Association at its annual banquet and Hall of Fame induction, held Friday at the Crowne Plaza at the Crossings in Warwick.
PBN won first prize in the New Series category for its staff-written collection of the 20 biggest business stories in the last 20 years, done to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Providence Business News.
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The PBN also won second prize in the business story category, for a piece by Managing Editor Marion Davis on changes in nursing home care; and took a third prize for its staff-written election coverage.
The Rhode Island Press Association counts more than 40 publications among its members; they made a record 561 entries in this year’s contest.
Leading the way in the 31-category contest with the most winners were the The Call in Woonsocket and the Newport Daily News, with 12 each, followed by Rhode Island Monthly with 11 and The Providence Journal with 10 (the Journal only enters its suburban editions in the contest).
Inducted into the Rhode Island Journalism Hall of Fame were: Fred Friendly, the pioneering CBS radio and television producer whose landmark collaborations with Edward R. Morrow helped create long-form electronic journalism; Mae Keighley Adams, a trendsetting food writer who worked for The Narragansett Times and The Providence Journal; Marion M. Perkins, the state’s first female sports editor, a position she took in 1950 at the Cranston Herald; and George E. Trafford, an award-winning reporter and columnist for The Providence Journal and North Kingstown Standard-Times, who started his journalism career as a copy boy, then became a typographer before making the leap to the newsroom.
