Tribune wins 15 2025 Better Newspaper Contest Awards

(including a Community Service Award we are especially proud of)

2025 Washington State Better Newspaper Contest winners announced at annual Convention held in Wenatchee this year

(Click or tap here – or scroll down to see the winning entries below the list)

Community Service, 3rd Place: “Fired Up About Firewising” | Carl Nelson, Terry Hamberg, Jana Stoner & JK Myers
Event/Festival Sections, 1st Place: “Holiday Gift Guide” | Staff
General Interest Columns, 1st Place: “Local Faces” | Jen Smith
Topical In-Paper Sections, 2nd Place: “In Memoriam” | Casey Clark
Topical Columns, 3rd Place: “Frankly Speaking” | Frank Schuchman
Medical Story, 2nd Place: “Love thy neighbor” | Jen Smith
Terry Hamberg – 9 Advertising Awards:
- Use of Small Space, 3rd Place: “Welcome to El Caporal”
- Ad Campaign, 3rd Place: “Culinary Creations
- Ads Featuring Animals, 3rd Place: “ARRF Doggie Olympics”
- Full Page Ad, 3rd Place: “No Place Like Farm & Home”
- Smaller than 1/2 Page, 1st Place: “Kittitas Books Spooky Tales”
- Smaller than 1/2 Page, 3rd Place: “Senior Center Thanksgiving Luncheon”
- Newspaper House Ad, 2nd Place: “Tired of Baaad News?”
- Newspaper House Ad, 3rd Place: “Spring into What’s Hoppening!”
- Humorous Ad, 1st Place: “Prices have gone NUTS!”