For the second year in a row Insight News was honored by the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA) in the Better Newspaper Contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Insight earned a third-place award for General Excellence, for weeklies with more than 5,000 papers distributed. General Excellence is the top overall category. Harry Colbert, Jr., Insight\u2019s managing editor, earned a second-place award for Best Columnist, weeklies more than 5,000 distribution and Insight graphic artist Donald Walker was awarded third-place for Use of Information Graphics & Graphic Illustrations, weeklies 2,500 and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The awards were handed out Jan. 24 at the Doubletree by Hilton, Bloomington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 4,000 entries from newspapers throughout the state were submitted, with winners selected by professional journalists in Colorado. This is the second year in a row Insight has been honored by the MNA. Last year Insight took the top prize in the General Reporting category and Colbert was awarded second-place Best Columnist, an honor duplicated this time around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the General Excellence category judges remarked, \u201cWell-curated content, phenomenal front page art.\u201d It was that front page art that earned Walker his award. Judges said his win for graphic illustration \u2013 the March 5 \u2013 March 12, 2018 cover of Insight \u2013<\/em> \u201cwas all about the visuals.\u201d That cover story and corresponding visual was \u201cNumbers Don\u2019t Lie,\u201d an expos\u00e9 of Minnesota government spending with Black-owned businesses. The article and image pointed out that only 0.5 percent of $4.63 billion spent by seven Minnesota government agencies went to Black-owned businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the second year in a row Insight News was honored by the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA) in the Better Newspaper Contest. Insight earned a third-place award for General Excellence, for weeklies with more than 5,000 papers distributed. General Excellence is the top overall category. Harry Colbert, Jr., Insight\u2019s managing editor, earned a second-place award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2270,29,2269],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-better-newspaper-contest","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-newspaper-association-mna","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}