SUN Awards - Las Vegas Sun News

The Las Vegas Sun has received numerous accolades from a variety of media organizations in the paper's 58 year history.

The Sun, LV Weekly, VEGAS INC snag nearly 100 awards in Nevada press contest: Sunday, September 23, 2012; Media:; By Sun Staff; The Sun’s yearlong project chronicling efforts to improve Clark County’s most-troubled public schools has been named the best story of the year by the Nevada Press Association. Judges said the project, “The Turnaround: Inside Clark County Schools,” “is what newspapers were meant to do.” They congratulated the paper for applying long-form storytelling to a digital format, and using videos and graphics, to offer a broad review “of complex matters that are at the core of the public interest.” “If more newspapers emulated the Sun, our republic would be well served,” judges concluded.

Sun’s website named best in the country; photographer’s sports photo also honored: Tuesday, April 10, 2012; By Sun Staff; A national media organization has named LasVegasSun.com the best newspaper website in the country, marking the fourth year out of the past five that the Sun’s webpage has won national honors from its peers for its online presentation of news.

Sun’s Demirjian earns national award for congressional coverage: Thursday, February 9, 2012; Las Vegas Sun; Karoun Demirjian, the Sun’s Capitol Hill correspondent, was named by her peers Wednesday night as the nation’s top regional correspondent covering Congress. The honor, the David Lynch Memorial Regional Reporting Award, is given by the Washington Press Club Foundation to a newspaper reporter whose work provides an understanding of the inner workings of Congress and explains how its actions affect a local community.

‘Do No Harm’ headlines 34 awards for Las Vegas Sun: Saturday, October 15, 2011; Journalism:; By Sun Staff; The Nevada Press Association on Saturday honored the Las Vegas Sun with 34 awards, including 14 first-place prizes involving investigative projects, feature writing, opinions and design, as well as for serving the community and upholding freedom of the press.

Sun’s ‘Do No Harm’ hospital series garners new acclaim: Monday, April 18, 2011; Las Vegas Sun; The Las Vegas Sun’s series on hospital care continued its run of accolades Monday, honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting while also receiving the top journalism award from the National Institute for Health Care Management.

'Do No Harm' series, Sun website earn national distinction: Monday, March 28, 2011; Las Vegas Sun; One of the nation’s largest and oldest journalism awards programs has honored the Sun for two accomplishments — citing the series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” as the finest example of print journalism in 2010, and crediting LasVegasSun.com for the best example of innovative journalism for its pioneering efforts to elevate the level of online discussion among readers.

Sun wins journalism awards for investigative hospital care series: Wednesday, March 23, 2011; By Sun Staff; The series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas,” which revealed how patients are infected or injured while hospitalized, has been recognized by two journalism organizations — one specializing in business reporting and the other in health care coverage.

Sun reporters win another national journalism award for investigative hospital care series: Friday, March 18, 2011; By Sun Staff; A second national prize for investigative reporting has been awarded to reporters Marshall Allen and Alex Richards for their series in the Sun that explored how patients are infected or injured while hospitalized.

Nation can't afford failure of free press: Sunday, March 13, 2011; Brian Greenspun: Where I Stand: Investigative reporting contributes to an informed citizenry; By Brian Greenspun; What would we do without us?

Sun reporters win investigative reporting award for hospital series: Tuesday, March 8, 2011; By Sun Staff; Two journalists who reported and wrote the Sun series “Do No Harm: Hospital Care in Las Vegas” have been awarded the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, sponsored by Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Sun wins national media award for telling the story of gambling addiction: Wednesday, December 22, 2010; By Sun Staff; The Las Vegas Sun has won a national broadcast journalism award for its examination of gambling addiction, becoming the first print-based news organization to receive the award for multimedia storytelling.

Las Vegas Sun captures international online journalism awards: Monday, November 1, 2010; By Dave Toplikar; The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group received two major awards Saturday night from the world's largest association of online journalists.

In Business wins six first-place awards: Friday, September 24, 2010; In Business Las Vegas won six first-place awards and veteran In Business and Las Vegas Sun business reporter Richard N. Velotta was named outstanding journalist among community newspapers in the Nevada Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest.

Sun wins 22 first-place awards in state contest: Sunday, September 19, 2010; JOURNALISM:; Las Vegas Sun; The Las Vegas Sun has won 22 first-place awards for writing, editing, art, design and photography in the Nevada Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. The Sun did better than any other daily newspaper in the contest’s 42 categories.

Series on gambling addiction recognized nationally: Wednesday, July 28, 2010; SUN AWARDS: Sun project wins first-place honor in multimedia storytelling; By Sun Staff; A three-part series that examines gambling addictions — through stories, videos and interactive graphics and a live, online chat — has won a first-place award in the Excellence in Feature Writing competition sponsored by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.