Colorado Newsline wins 7 awards in Society of Professional Journalists contest

Deb Hurley Brobst accepts a Keeper of the Flame award during a Society of Professional Journalists awards reception at the Denver Press Club on May 4, 2024. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline)

Colorado Newsline took home seven awards during a Society of Professional Journalists Colorado Pro Chapter reception at the Denver Press Club on Saturday.

The chapter’s 2024 Top of the Rockies journalism contest included more than 1,900 entries from more than 80 news outlets and 30 freelancers from Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah.

“The competition grows each year, and with that, we honor outstanding journalism throughout the four-state region,” contest coordinator Deb Hurley Brobst said in a statement. “It’s an honor to recognize the hard work of these journalists.”

Newsline, a nonprofit, nonpartisan outlet that launched in 2020 and is based in Denver, competed in the contest’s small newsroom category. The outlet operates with four full-time staff members. Each staff member, as well as two freelance journalists engaged by Newsline, won SPJ awards this year.

This is what Newsline’s journalists won:

Lindsey Toomer , reporter

Second place, enterprise reporting, for Former Club Q employees struggle to claim money raised in their names

Sara Wilson , reporter

Second place, news reporting: single story, for ​​ Allstate to ban Spanish-language insurance sales after lawmakers pass translation requirement

Chase Woodruff , senior reporter

Third place, general reporting: series or package, for Trump 14th Amendment trial coverage

Quentin Young , editor

First place, columns/op ed pieces, for MAGA malignancy arrives in a Colorado courtroom

Second place, breaking news story, for Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for false election claims

Sharon Sullivan , freelance reporter

Second place, features: short form, for Colorado’s mandatory arrest law often results in unintended consequences

William Woody , freelance photographer

Second place, news photography/videography, for Down the Line

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