View staff collects honors for Best Editorial Cartoon, Addiction Series in 2016 Better Newspaper Contest

View Neighborhood Newspapers earned several awards in the 2016 Nevada Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. The awards were handed out Sept. 24 at the NPA’s annual awards banquet, held this year in Mesquite.

View staff writer F. Andrew Taylor took first place for Best Editorial Cartoon for Urban Weeklies.

“We are blessed at View to have such uniquely talented people like F. Andrew Taylor on our staff,” said View Editor Lisa Valentine. “Along with his reporting skills, he is also a gifted artist, sharing his original artwork with View readers every week in our Caption Contest and editorial cartoons.”

View staff took second place for Community Service for View’s Addiction Series.

“After becoming View editor in 2015, part of my overall vision was to incorporate more original story ideas into the newspaper, particularly in series form to take a closer look at issues affecting our readers’ daily lives,” Valentine said. “View’s Addiction Series was one of those, and it was truly a collaboration by View’s talented reporting staff to explore what life is like for those struggling with an addiction.”

Other awards included: Summerlin Area View columnist Herb Jaffe’s second-place win for Best Local Non-staff Column; Las Vegas Review-Journal videographer and photographer Michael Quine’s third-place win for Best Digital Storytelling for his View Love Stories series video; and the View staff’s third-place win for Best Special Section for its work on the Las Vegas Review-Journal special section Neon Rebirth: The Post-Recession American Dream in Las Vegas, which appeared in the Review-Journal in March 2016.