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A meteor streaks across the sky as gusty winds create an ember cast on a valley oak tree burned by the Kincade fire, early Wednesday morning in Knights Valley east of Healdsburg, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. (Kent Porter/The Press Democrat — 2029 California Journalism Awards Print Contest, 1st Place, Artistic Photo, Dailies: 15,001 – 50,000)
List of 2019 California Journalism Awards Print Contest winners.
Above: A helicopter drops water on burning mobile homes to try and keep the Sandalwood fire from spreading during extreme Santa Ana winds at Villa Calimesa mobile home park on October 10, 2019 in Calimesa, California. One person died and multiple mobile homes were lost in the fire. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
1st Place, News Photo, Dailies: 50,001 & over
List of 2019 California Journalism Awards Digital Contest winners.
Digital Contest Winners Gallery
Above: Marty Stentzel plays an accordion in the driveway of his burned home on Wagstaff Road in Paradise on Sunday, March 24, 2019. In November, he and his wife drove away from their house as the Camp Fire approached, but they abandoned their vehicles and walked to the nearby Walgreens where they were rescued by a school bus. The Stentzels returned to their Paradise property where they live in a trailer purchased with their insurance money. After losing his piano in the fire, Marty decided to pick up the accordion. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee)
1st Place, Feature Photo, Monthly Unique Visitors: 400,001 & over
List of 2019 California Journalism Awards Campus Contest winners.
Campus Contest Winners Gallery
Above: A child of the caravan challenges the Border Patrol agents by climbing the wall of Playas de Tijuana. (Ailyn Dumas/Southwestern College—The Sun)
1st Place, News Photo, Two-Year Colleges
Long Beach Post
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Santa Barbara Independent
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He died Sunday on a West L.A. sidewalk. He was homeless. He is part of an epidemic; A homeless musician changed my life. I wish I could do more to change his
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Santa Monica Daily Press
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Matthew Hall
Los Angeles Times
American fallout: The Marshall Islands
Susanne Rust, Carolyn Cole, Ali Raj and Lorena Iñiguez Elebee
Los Angeles Times
The end of the season for Paradise High
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San Francisco Chronicle
One Day, One City, No Relief
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