Jim Schaefer's coverage of the Kwame Kilpatrict trial is the "Digital Presence" category winner.
Detroit Free Press staff members won nine first-place awards Saturday night, including one for general excellence and four in sports categories, at a Lansing presentation by the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors group.
Thirty-three daily newspapers, divided into three categories by paid circulation size, submitted news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from 2012. Illinois editors judged the Michigan entries.
Top awards to Detroit's dailies, including a pair for The Detroit News, are below. Second- and third-place awards also were presented. (The Free Press swept the "Best Investigative Reporting" and Best Sports" article category.)
- General Excellence: Free Press
- Best Digital Presence: Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press, "Kwame Kilpatrick Trial Blog."
- Best Informational Graphics or Illustrations: Jason Karas and Eric Millikin, Detroit Free Press, "We Love the Tigers, We Love Detroit, We Love The D."
- Best Sports Enterprise: Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, "A Son's Dream, A Dad's Passion."
- Best Sports: Detroit Free Press, "So Long, Yankees; Hello World!"
- Best Sports Column: Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, "Stick To Your Guns -- Except For Costas?"
- Best Sustained Coverage of a Single Sports Event: Detroit Free Press, "Team Michigan at the Olympics."
- Best News Column: Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, "Power of Forgiveness."
- Best Breaking News: The Detroit News, "Michigan Right-to-Work Legislation."
- Best Sports Picture: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News, "Mike Thomas Touchdown Celebration."
- Best Enterprise Reporting: Chastity Pratt Dawsey and Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, "Danger Zone."
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