Delaware Currents honored with journalism awards

OH WOW!!

Some great news (for Delaware Currents) in the midst of the not-so-great news for the rest of the world.

We’ve won five awards from the Pennsylvania Media Association!

Here’s the list:

First Place for Documentary, Meg McGuire for “A Flight Along the Delaware River: Our History, Our Watershed.” A 20-minute video that takes you from the top of the watershed to the bay.

First Place for Ongoing News Coverage, Chris Mele for coverage of the SS United States. Remember all the on-again, off-again drama of the SS United States? Chis was our man on that. Here’s one of the many stories he did.

Second Place for News Beat Reporting, Lauren Yates for her coverage of water quality and protection in the Delaware River watershed. Here’s one of those stories. The beneficiaries of removing mill dams in Delaware River watershed? ‘Fish, fish, fish’

Second Place for News Feature Story, Kyle Bagenstose, for his coverage of “Mussels: A powerful solution to pollution in the Delaware?”

Honorable Mention for Editorial Writing, Meg McGuire, for her accountability editorials calling out government secrecy and lack of transparency. Here’s one of them.

Of course, I’m dead chuffed (10 years living in England showing in that usage!) that DC won awards, but what’s making me dance is our freelancers!!

And you should be dead chuffed too!! It’s your donations that keep this “Little Engine That Could” on track and moving forward.

So, a big thank you to them and to you all.

Now, for more of the good stuff from our freelancers!

Let’s start with my partner in crime, my husband, Chris Mele. Here is his story on a bill, wending its way through Congress, and introduced by Rep. Rob Bresnahan, a Pennsylvania Republican. Federal bill would heighten DRBC accountability and oversight

I introduced you to Isabella Darcy last week. She went to witness the Annual spring horseshoe crab migration celebrated at “Sunset on the Bay“

Have I introduced you to Preston Ehler? He’s been contributing to Delaware Currents for about a year. He’s a journalist of many talents who is the BRC News 13 reporter for Pike and Wayne Counties in Pennsylvania and he’s written The Delaware River Sojourn:  ‘A kind of meditation” that takes you away. Really lovely.

In March, Susanna Granieri did the data-driven investigative story Special report: Large vessels on the Delaware River lose steering, propulsion or power monthly

Now she’s back with a deeper dive into the day-in, day-out work of the US Coast Guard:

U.S. Coast Guard and its partners help the safe flow of commerce on the Delaware River

Sit somewhere cool with a nice glass of something iced and enjoy a bounty of good reads!!

Thanks for your support!!