The Los Angeles Times is the General Excellence winner in the large dailies division in the CNPA 2022 California Journalism Awards Print Contest.
Good Times, Santa Cruz, is the winner in the large weeklies division.
In the Digital Contest, CalMatters is the General Excellence winner in the large publications division (400,001 & over Monthly Unique Visitors).
Other Print Contest General Excellence winners:
Dailies: 15,001 – 50,000 – The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa
Dailies: 15,000 & under – The Tribune, San Luis Obispo
Weeklies: 11,001 – 25,000 – Comstock’s Magazine, Sacramento
Weeklies: 4,301 – 11,000 – Dana Point Times
Weeklies: 4,300 & under – The Pajaronian, Watsonville
Other Digital Contest General Excellence winners:
Monthly Unique Visitors: 100,001-400,000 – GV Wire, Fresno
Monthly Unique Visitors: 100,000 & under – Capital & Main, Los Angeles
In the Campus Contest, San Jose State University-Spartan Daily was the General Excellence winner in the four-year university division.
San Joaquin Delta College-The Collegian, won General Excellence in the two-year college division.
Sacramento Country Day School-The Octagon was first in General Excellence among high school publications.
In Campus Online General Excellence, the winners were:
Stanford University-The Stanford Daily
Skyline College-The Skyline View
Granite Bay High School-The Gazette
View sortable and searchable tables of winners, along with winner galleries, on the CNPA website https://cnpa.com/2022-cja-contest . Please send any name corrections right away to contests@cnpa.com .
CNPA will deliver plaques, digital seals of excellence and $1,000 awards to each of the 16 General Excellence awardees. These are the highest journalism distinctions that CNPA awards.
CNPA will present digital certificates of achievement and seals of excellence to all other First- through Third-Place winners. Publishers and editors who would like plaques can purchase them directly from our supplier. Click to order
The three contests — Print, Digital and Campus — received 3,123 entries overall, up from last year’s total of 2,841. The Digital Contest received 727 entries, up 137 over last year. Print Contest entries totaled 1,901, down from last year’s 1,945. CNPA Campus members sent in 495 entries, up from 306 last year.
New contest categories for 2022 were:
Print:
- Environmental Coverage
- Health Coverage
- Coverage of Business and the Economy
- Coverage of 2022 Election
Digital:
- Environmental Coverage
- Health Coverage
- Coverage of Business and the Economy
- Coverage of 2022 Election
- Newsletters
- Podcasts
Campus:
- Coverage of Student Government and College Administration
- Video Journalism
- Podcasts
