Two members of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram staff have won awards for their writing and photography in the 2015 National Press Club journalism contest.
Staff photographer Gabe Souza and staff writer Gillian Graham will be honored at the National Press Club’s dinner in Washington on Wednesday, July 29.
Souza becomes the first-ever winner of the National Press Club’s News Photo Award. He won for his photograph of the hand of a woman holding her newly acquired citizenship papers.
The judges said the photo “tells a compelling story with a single shot” that shows the texture of her hand as well as the soft focus of her face on her naturalization certificate.
Gillian won honorable mention for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics. Judges said her work was a strongly reported and well-written narrative about an epidemic of hunger among the state’s elderly population.
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