The Lehigh Valley Press newspapers received 21 Professional Keystone Media Awards for work published in 2020, with The Bethlehem Press named the Sweepstakes Winner in its category.

The Bethlehem Press received nine Keystone Awards, including first place in the Diversity category, first place in Lifestyle-Entertainment Beat and first place in Feature Page Design for the Focus section.

East Penn Press received five Keystones.

Parkland Press received three Keystones.

Northampton Press received one Keystone.

Northwestern Press received one Keystone.

Whitehall-Coplay Press received two Keystones.

Here are the Keystone awards received in Division VI by The Press newspapers:

Bethlehem Press

Laini Goins, Second Place, Enterprise Reporting

Chris Haring, First Place, News Feature Story

Christ Haring, First Place, Business or Consumer Story

Dennis Glew, Honorable Mention, Feature Story

Paul Willistein, First Place, Lifestyle-Entertainment Beat

Dave Rowe, First Place, Feature Page Design

Mark Kirlin, First Place, Photo Story-Essay

Ed Courrier, Second Place, Graphic-Photo Illustration

Douglas Graves, Dana Grubb, Dorothy Glew, Lani Goins, First Place, Diversity

East Penn Press

April Peterson, First Place, Editorial

Debbie Galbraith, Second Place, Editorial

Jake Meluskey, Second Place, News Beat Reporting

Jim Marsh, Second Place, Lifestyle-Entertainment Beat

Jim Marsh, Second Place, News Event Photo

Parkland Press

Sarit Laschinsky, First Place, Ongoing News Coverage

Bonnie Lee Strunk, First Place, Column

Debra Palmieri, First Place, Headline Writing

Northampton Press

Paul Willistein, Second Place, Headline Writing

Northwestern Press

Debra Palmieri, Honorable Mention, Editorial

Whitehall-Coplay Press

Samantha Anderson, Second Place, Column

Scott M. Nagy, Second Place, Feature Photo

The Times News, Lehighton, the multi-day publication also published by the Times News, received six Keystone Awards.

According to the 4 p.m. April 30 press release awards announcement from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, presenter of the Keystones contest, “Earlier this year, close to 2,600 entries were received from 117 news organizations.

“Entries, in 54 regular categories and 11 specialty categories across seven circulation and four broadcast divisions, were judged by journalists in New York.

“Due to COVID-19 concerns, an in-person awards banquet will not be held this spring. Awards will be mailed to all winners in the coming weeks and a virtual celebration will be released this summer.”

Information: https://panewsmedia.org/2021-professional-keystone-media-award-winners/