The Honolulu Star-Bulletin won 30 awards, including 11 for first place, at the 2005 Excellence in Journalism Awards held Saturday by the Society of Professional Journalists-Hawaii Chapter.
The Star-Bulletin took first place for government reporting for "Battle for the Akaka Bill." Judges described the story as "thorough reporting and a balanced look at all sides of a bill in Congress to give federal recognition to native Hawaiians."
The newspaper's photo department also took home three first-place awards for news photography, sports photography and photo essay.
The Honolulu Advertiser won 20 awards, 10 of them for first place, including the top award for public service reporting for "Are we ready? Disaster preparedness in Hawaii."
KITV won six first place awards in the TV news category.
Hawaii Public Radio swept first-place awards in the radio categories for general news/enterprise reporting and feature reporting.
Honolulu Magazine won four first-place awards in magazine categories, while Hawaii Business won two first-place awards.
Entries in all 46 categories were judged by the Society of Professional Journalists' Cincinnati and Greater Oregon chapters.
The following is the list of the winners of the 2005 Excellence in Journalism Awards:
Daily Newspaper
Business Reporting
First Place: Staff, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Through the Roof"
Finalists: Andrew Gomes, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Kakaako Package"; Alexandre Da Silva, the Associated Press, "Vegetable Gas"
Spot News Reporting
First Place: Alexandre Da Silva, the Associated Press, "Hawaiian Programs"
Finalists: Staff, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "26 Kaneohe Marines Killed"; Melissa Tanji, Matthew Burger, the Maui News, "Oh My God! It's Smoke"
General News/Enterprise Reporting
First Place: Mike Gordon, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Vanished: Hawaii's Missing Children"
Finalists: Craig Gima, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Tsunami Coverage"; Jim Dooley, Mike Gordon, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Sunshine Week Series"
Feature Writing/Short Form
First Place: Allison Schaefers, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Family Trees"
Finalists: Ilima Loomis, the Maui News, "Beyond the Call"; Susan Essoyan, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Dressed for Detention"
Feature Writing/Long Form
First Place: Peter Delevett, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Return to Vietnam"
Finalists: Sally Apgar, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Fall of the House of Fong"; Michael Tsai, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Jon Mozo"
News Page Design
First Place: Lucy Young-Oda, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Safe but Not Sound"
Finalists: Brad Sherman, the Maui News, "Back to Back"; Michael Rovner, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Pray for Them"
Feature Page Design
First Place: Bryant Fukutomi, Michael Rovner, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Hawaii's Coral Reef: Cradle of Life"
Finalists: Chris Sykes, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Roll It, Bake It, Eat It"; Ruby Mata-Viti, Michael Rovner, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Holiday Table Settings -- Fine Dining"
Internet
Online Spot News
First Place: Advertiser staff, the Honolulu Advertiser, "27 Hawai'i troops killed in Iraq crash"
Online General News
First Place: Mike Leidemann, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Special Report: Driver Beware"
Finalists: Malia Zimmerman, Hawaii Reporter, "Paving Over Entrepreneurs' Dreams"
Magazine
Business Reporting
First Place: Scott Radway, Hawaii Business, "The Crowning of Kakaako"
Finalists: Jacy L. Youn, Hawaii Business, "Kauai in Crisis"; Teresa Dawson, Environment Hawai'i, "East Maui Taro Farmers May Receive Interim Relief from Water Diversion"
Industry or Trade Reporting
First Place: Ronna Bolante, Heidi Chang, John Heckathorn, Michael Keany, Honolulu Magazine, "The Hawai'i Music Issue"
Finalists: David K. Choo, Hawaii Business, "X-forever"; A. Kam Napier, Honolulu Magazine, "The Condos are Coming!"
Profile
First Place: Staff, Honolulu magazine, "The Honolulu 100"
Finalists: David Thompson, Hana Hou! Magazine, "In a Cosmic Groove"; Jacy L. Youn, Hawaii Business, "Best Case Scenario"
Feature Writing/Short Form
First Place: Heidi Chang, Honolulu Magazine, "Keola Beamer's Aloha Camp"
Feature Writing/Long Form
First Place: Staff, Hawaii Business, "50 Hawai'i Icons"
Finalists: Paul Wood, Hana Hou! Magazine, "The Great Seduction"; Ronna Bolante, Honolulu Magazine, "Soldier's Home"
Page Design
First Place: Darrell Ishii, Spirit of Aloha, "Naked Lava"
Finalists: Jonathan Tanji, HMSA Island Scene, "Eating with One Mind"; Jayson Harper, Honolulu Magazine, "The Hawai'i Soldier"
Magazine Cover
First Place: Jayson Harper, Honolulu Magazine, "The Crime that Changed the Islands"
Finalists: Wes Funai, Hawaii Business, "Labor at a Crossroads"; Darrell Ishii, Karl Lehmann, Spirit of Aloha, "The Next Good Place (it's out there somewhere)"
Non-Daily Newspapers
Business Reporting
First Place: Prabha Natarajan, Pacific Business News, "Tourism Industry Coverage"
Finalists: Prabha Natarajan, Pacific Business News, "Airline Trustee Fees"; Kristen Consillio, Pacific Business News, "AdWorks Coverage"
General News/Enterprise
First Place: Kristen Consillio, Pacific Business News, "Bogus Pharmacy School"
Finalists: Harold Nedd, Pacific Business News, "Why Michelle Wie may have to leave"; Harold Nedd, Pacific Business News, "Hawaii CEO Pay"
Feature Writing
First Place: Harold Nedd, Pacific Business News, "Walter Dods in Retirement"
Finalists: Cathy S. Cruz, Lance Tominaga, Downtown Planet, "Out of the Box"; Cathy S. Cruz, Downtown Planet, "Pets in the City"
Community Reporting
First Place: Lance Tominaga, Downtown Planet, "They Just Want Your Love"
Finalists: Lance Tominaga, Downtown Planet, "Something Special"
Page Design
First Place: Ruben Duldulao, Pacific Business News, "Front Page Sampling"
Open Print
Column Writing/News
First Place: June Watanabe, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Kokua Line"
Finalists: Lee Cataluna, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Lee Cataluna"; Edwin Tanji, the Maui News, "Haku Moolelo"
Column Writing/Features
First Place: A. Kam Napier, Honolulu Magazine, "Afterthoughts Column: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Visions"
Finalists: Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Soaring on Kauai"; David Choo, Downtown Planet, "Choo on This"
Government Reporting
First Place: Richard Borreca, B.J. Reyes, Sally Apgar, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Battle for the Akaka Bill"
Finalists: Malia Zimmerman, Hawaii Reporter, "Bill Mandating Taxpayers Subsidize Political Campaigns"; Alexandre Da Silva, the Associated Press, "Hawaii Conventions"
Breaking News
First Place: Staff, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Helicopter crash kills Hawaii Marines"
Finalists: Staff, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Kamehameha Schools ruling on John Doe admission"; staff, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Peter Boy"
Sports Reporting
First Place: Stu Dawrs, Hana Hou! Magazine, "Spin Junkies"
Finalists: Paul Honda, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Waipahu Football Suspension"; Robert Collias, Dana McBratney, the Maui News, "Maui's Brightest Stars"
Arts & Entertainment
First Place: Burl Burlingame, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Idolatry"
Finalists: John Heckathorn, Honolulu Magazine, "The Perfect Dinner Date"; Rick Chatenever, the Maui News, "Hazard Warning"
Editorial Opinion
First Place: Editorial page staff, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Akaka Bill deserves support"
Finalists: Cynthia Oi, Honolulu Star- Bulletin, "Exempting Council from Sunshine Law would blind public"; Patricia Tummons, Environment Hawai'i, "The Po'ouli: RIP"
Editorial Cartoon
First Place: Dick Adair, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Bush's home on the range"
Finalists: Corky Trinidad, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "60th anniversary of North Korea"; Corky Trinidad, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "You're next, Iran!"
Illustration
First Place: Kip Aoki, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "He's Got Soul -- Clay Aiken"
Finalists: Nathalie Boutin, Spirit of Aloha, "The Happy Foods of Hawai'i"; Jon Orque, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Heading off heartburn"
Informational Graphic
First Place: John Valles, Greg Taylor, Martha Hernandez, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Hawaii Brought to Life"
Finalists: Bryant Fukutomi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Hawaii's Coral Reef: Cradle of Life"; Dave Swann, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
News Photography
First Place: FL Morris, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Accident"
Finalists: Dennis Oda, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Tourism-conscious Wahiawa fights an ongoing battle with the homeless"; Richard Ambo, the Honolulu Advertiser, "5-car pileup snarls H-1"
Feature Photography
First Place: Amanda Cowan, the Maui News, "Summer Fun"
Finalists: Jeff Widener, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Ship has arrived"; Cindy Ellen Russell, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Singing praises at St. Andrew's"
Sports Photography
First Place: Jamm Aquino, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Hawaii 49, New Mexico State 28"
Finalists: Matthew Thayer, the Maui News, "Stunner in the MIL"; George F. Lee, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "State Girls Soccer"
Photo Essay
First Place: Cindy Ellen Russell, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Serena's Story"
Finalists: Marco Garcia, Jayson Harper, Honolulu Magazine, "Tsunami: From Disaster to Renewal"; Sergio Goes, Hana Hou! Magazine, "Brasileiros!"
Investigative Reporting
First Place: Jim Dooley, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Child Support"
Finalists: Sean Hao, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Sandwich Isles"; Sally Apgar, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "City prosecutor's contracts questioned"
Public Service
First Place: Staff, the Honolulu Advertiser, "Are we ready? Disaster preparedness in Hawaii"
Finalists: Staff, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, "Women of Hawaii"; Ilima Loomis, the Maui News, "Critical Delays"
Radio
General News/Enterprise Reporting
First Place: Kayla Rosenfeld, Chad Blair, Noe Tanigawa, Hawaii Public Radio, "Being a Healthy Hawaiian"
Finalists: Heidi Chang, William Troop, Public Radio International, "First Hawaiian Grammy"
Feature Reporting
First Place: Al Hulsen, Hawaii Public Radio, "American Samoa"
Finalists: Noe Tanigawa, Hawaii Public Radio, "World War II: The Beginning and the End from a Hawaii Perspective"
Student
News Writing
First Place: Alice Kim, Ka Leo O Hawaii, "Bicycle theft common on campus grounds"
Finalists: Alice Kim, Ka Leo O Hawaii, "UH site down for scheduled power outage"
Television
Government Reporting
First Place: Keoki Kerr, KITV, "Bev Harbin's Unpaid Taxes"
General News/Enterprise Reporting
First Place: Gary Sprinkle, KITV, "Whale Disentangled"
Finalists: Louise Kim McCoy, KGMB, "Drugs in Whitmore Village"
Feature Reporting
First Place: Gary Sprinkle, KITV, "Sophia's Challenge"
Finalists: Pamela Young, Gary Sprinkle, KITV, "How to Travel"
Investigative Reporting
First Place: Keoki Kerr, KITV, "Medical Examiner Investigation"
Series Reporting
First Place: Pamela Young, KITV, "Mixed Plate: Lion Olympics"
Finalists: Gary Sprinkle, KITV, "Deep- water Expedition"
Special News Program
First Place: Pamela Young, KITV, "Mixed Plate: The Business of Fashion"
