The Virginia Mercury staff won 11 first-place awards in the 2019 Virginia Press Association contest, the first year the publication, launched in 2018, was eligible to compete.
Reporters — including current staff writers Ned Oliver, Sarah Vogelsong and Graham Moomaw and former reporters Mechelle Hankerson and Katie O’Connor — won first-place awards for reporting on business, government and the environment, as well as for general news writing, public safety writing, in-depth/investigative reporting and a feature series.
Ned Oliver won two first-place photography awards, and Mercury contributor Roger Chesley won a first-place award for column writing.
The Mercury competed in the VPA’s online category, which includes other internet-only Virginia outlets.
The Virginia Press Foundation also named Mercury Editor Robert Zullo as a winner of one of its Leadership and Innovation Awards.
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