The Lawrence Times news team has been honored to receive numerous recognitions from professional journalism associations and universities’ journalism schools.
The Times, founded in February 2021, started publishing in March 2021. Despite our publication’s relative youth compared to peers, these awards have helped to cement that the work we do is not only important to our community but also well respected in our field.
We sincerely appreciate our colleagues’ encouragement, and more than anything, the community support that allows us to keep doing this work.
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Summaries of awards we’ve earned
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Lawrence Times, recognized as an essential news outlet filling local coverage gaps, selected for Press Forward grant
The Lawrence Times, filling key gaps in local Lawrence news, has been recognized with a grant that will help us expand the breadth and depth of our impact.
Lawrence Times places for several Awards of Excellence, including Photographer and Journalist of the Year
The Lawrence Times news team has been honored with six Awards of Excellence from the Kansas Press Association, including second place Photographer of the Year and third place Journalist of the Year.
Lawrence Times wins Best Coverage of Diversity, Best Website and numerous other honors from Kansas Press Association
The Lawrence Times news team has been recognized with 17 awards in the Kansas Press Association’s 2023 Awards of Excellence, including three first-place awards judged alongside all contest divisions.
Lawrence Times news team celebrates 3 prestigious awards and honors
The Lawrence Times news team on Thursday announced two prestigious new awards and an honorable mention recognizing the publication’s community journalism and investigative prowess.
Lawrence Times wins 4 Awards of Excellence from the Kansas Press Association
Our news team is thrilled to announce that after just our first year publishing, The Lawrence Times has been selected for four Awards of Excellence from the Kansas Press Association.
Award-winning work
The posts below are award-winning articles, projects, parts of series and/or contain award-winning photos or infographics.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Group to begin project to clean headstones at Haskell cemetery
Moss and lichen are beginning to eat away at the marble headstones of the children buried at Haskell Indian Nations University, but they will soon be cleaned with care.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Prosecutor asks panel to suspend Douglas County DA’s law license after day 3 of disciplinary hearing
The prosecutor handling a complaint against Douglas County DA Suzanne Valdez asked a disciplinary panel Wednesday to consider whether they believe the testimony of Valdez and her deputy, or that of the other 13 witnesses who testified.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
KU professor leads students in prescribed burn at Lecompton prairie
About three dozen students and community members gathered Wednesday morning for a cultural burn on a patch of remnant tallgrass prairie near the Winter School.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Hundreds of community members celebrate Liberty Memorial Central Middle School’s centennial
Generations of Lawrencians with connections to the school at 1400 Massachusetts St. — whether as Liberty Memorial High School, a junior high or a middle school — gathered Sunday to celebrate the school’s centennial.
Lawrence man says he feared getting shot by police during standoff; jury finds him not guilty
Louis Galloway would have gotten out of the car when officers told him to repeatedly for roughly an hour one night in April, but the vehicle’s broken passenger door didn’t open. Instead, he sat there with his hands in the air and a dog in his lap, both of them getting pelted with what’s essentially a powdered version of pepper spray.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Douglas County DA faces disciplinary complaint for conduct toward judge; DA challenges ex-employee’s role in case
A complaint accuses the Douglas County DA of misconduct for her comments about a judge, including allegedly calling him a sexist and a liar. DA Suzanne Valdez’s attorney is challenging an ex-employee’s involvement in the investigation.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Young artists of Van Go unveil 20 new benches, share what they learned from their work
For Van Go apprentice artist Barack Bennett-Robinson, drawing from emotion is part of making meaningful art. He and 19 other young artists on Friday night unveiled the benches they’ve been working on for eight weeks.
News team awards
2023 Kansas Press Association Awards of Excellence:
• Best Coverage of Diversity, All Divisions
• Best Use of Social Media, All Divisions (Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tiktok)
• Best Website, Division VII
Read more about these recognitions at this link.
2022 American Journalism Online Awards, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University:
• Best Non-Traditional News Organization
Read more about this recognition at this link.
Individual recognitions
• Molly Adams began her work as a professional photojournalist with The Lawrence Times in late May 2022. She was selected for third place in the Photographer of the Year category among all divisions in the Kansas Press Association’s 2023 Awards of Excellence. She was named second place Photographer of the Year in the 2024 Awards of Excellence.
See Adams’ work at this link.
• Tom Harper is a Lawrence townie, Realtor at Stephens Real Estate, and founder of Lawrence Modern, a group whose mission is to raise awareness of midcentury and modern architecture.
He was selected for third place in column writing in the Times’ division — publications with the largest circulations in the state — in the Kansas Press Association’s 2023 Awards of Excellence. Read Harper’s work at this link.
• Conner Mitchell, reporter, in 2022 earned two recognitions for his 2021 series, “Who Killed Nick Rice?”, including the Burton W. Marvin Kansas News Enterprise Award, named for the former dean of KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, and an honorable mention from the American Journalism Online Awards from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in its category of “Best Use of Public Records.”
Read the series at this link.
Watch for more award-winning journalism as it’s published
Page last updated April 9, 2024
