Editorial

The Monument takes home 2nd NEPA Award

The Monument Newspaper won its second award in three years at the New England Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest in Boston on February 5. Our award was for Third place as Editorial Writer. This year's contest was described by NEPA officials as their most competitive contest ever, with over 350 newspapers that comprised 6,000 entries.

The entry standards consisted of supplying three editorials, and judges scrutinized them against a set of standards that included whether the issue was relevant, made a difference, and was well written, among others.

When we increased The Monument's circulation to 6,000, it put this newspaper into a larger category of weeklies against which we were competing. We earned third place, following a newspaper that was started in 1821 and circulates 10,000 copies two times per week, and another that was started in 1822 and circulated 30,000 at the height of its summer season. The Monument was started in 2000 and circulates 6,000 copies weekly.

Wow.

We are ecstatic that we earned a win in this category, one most near and dear to our heart. What this means for you is that you have a quality paper to which you can look for relevant, timely, well-written material, a newspaper you can trust. A strong newspaper that demonstrates excellence is always better for the citizens.

The Monument congratulates The Portland Phoenix, who took home 18 awards, ten of those first-place wins, and all the other hundreds of New England Newspapers who strive to demonstrate excellence in all they do in and for American journalism.