New Hampshire Press Association announces 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Three veteran New Hampshire journalists, each with well more than three decades exemplary service to the news industry and freedom on speech, will be honored with Lifetime Achievement awards from the New Hampshire Press Association during its 2019 Distinguished Journalism awards ceremony Wednesday, August 12 at 7 p.m.

The honorees are:

Kevin Landrigan

The longtime Statehouse Bureau Chief for the Nashua Telegraph and reporter for NH1 now covers state politics for the New Hampshire Union Leader. His astute political observations are respected nationwide.

 

 

Garry Rayno

 Another Statehouse icon, Garry has roamed the hallways of political power for three-plus decades, for Foster’s Daily Democrat, the New Hampshire Union Leader, and now IndepthNH.org.

 

 

David Tirrell-Wysocki

A staple of New Hampshire journalism for more than 40 years Dave was an essential member of the state’s  Associated Press bureau before moving on to be the highly successful Executive Director of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications.

 

 

This year’s awards event will be conducted live online, accessible at the Press Association’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/PressNH) and hosted by Kimberly Haas (New Hampshire Union Leader) and Vanessa Palange (Newspapers of New England). 

The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with the announcements of the college division winners and follows at 7 p.m. with the professional awards. 

Following is the order in which the categories will be announced.  

1. Feature Story
2. Feature Photo
3. Feature Page 
4. Photo Essay
5. Graphic-Cartoon-Illustration
6. Entertainment Reporting
7. Health Reporting
8. Business-Economic Reporting
9. Crime and Court Reporting
10. General News Story
11. General News Photo
12. Special Section
13. Magazine Cover
14. Front Page
15. Sports News
16. Sports Photo
17. Sports Feature
18. Sports Feature Photo
19. Sports Columnist
20. Sports Page
21. Spot News Photo
22. Spot news reporting
23. Investigative Story/Series
24. Editorial Writing
25. Podcast Limited Series
26. Podcast – Reoccurring
27. Best Use Social Media
28. Best Use of Audio – Feature
29. Best Use of Audio – News
30. Best Use of Video –  Feature
31. Best Use of Video – News
32. Columnist of the Year
33. Photographer of the year
34. Excellence in Collaboration and Partnership
35. Community Service
36. First Amendment
37. General Excellence – radio
38. General Excellence – magazine
39. General Excellence – Digital Presence
40. General Excellence Non-Daily
41. General Excellence Daily Newspaper
42. Dennis Joos Memorial Award
43. Lifetime Achievement
44. Journalist of the Year.