Peninsula Daily News staffers won 10 awards from the Washington Press Association for work in 2008.
Winners were announced Saturday in Seattle.
Awards were given in daily and non-daily newspaper categories.
Trisha McMahon, special sections editor, was awarded first place for a special supplement, Discover 2008, and an honorable mention in cartoons and illustrations for a Port Townsend Film Festival section.
Paul Gottlieb, who doubles as a commentary page editor and a staff writer, won four awards.
He took first place for an entry of three columns about toxic algae in Anderson Lake, a controversy over a proposed crematory in Carlsborg, and traffic roundabouts.
He also took first place for an editorial encouraging voters to approve a proposed levy for Olympic Community Center and for a news story about the Port of Port Angeles rehiring of David Hagiwara as trade and economic development director 11 weeks after eliminating Hagiwara’s position of deputy executive director.
In addition, Gottlieb won an honorable mention for a news story about turmoil in Port Angeles city government.
Reporter Tom Callis also won four awards.
He took first place for a breaking news photo he shot on Sept. 20, the day that Forest Service Officer Kristine Fairbanks of Forks was killed, and third place for a story about the longtime officer’s murder at a campground near Sequim.
Callis won second place for a series on the creation of the Harbor-Works Public Development Authority, and honorable mention for a feature photo of a raven at Hurricane Ridge.
