The Patriot-News

The Patriot-News is the largest newspaper in Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area in central Pennsylvania, US. In 2005, the newspaper was ranked in the top 100 in daily and Sunday circulation in the United States. It has been owned by Advance Publications since 1947.

On August 28, 2012, the newspaper's publisher announced that it would shift to a three-day print publication schedule beginning January 1, 2013, and expand its digital focus on its website, PennLive.com, and social media platforms. This followed similar moves at other Advance Local-owned publications.^[2] It is published Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

A pesar de su tamaño modesto, The Patriot-News ha ganado consistentemente los premios estatales de periodismo más importantes, compitiendo con los periódicos más grandes de Pensilvania. En 2012, la reportera de Patriot-News, Sara Ganim, y su equipo, bajo el liderazgo del editor en jefe David Newhouse, recibieron un Premio Pulitzer por destapar el escándalo de abuso sexual en Penn State . ^{[ 8 ] [ 9 ]}

En 2003, el periódico ganó el premio G. Richard Dew de la Asociación de Periódicos de Pensilvania al Servicio Periodístico por su cobertura del intento de venta de Hershey Foods . En 2004, la revista Editor & Publisher lo nombró uno de los "10 que lo hacen bien" . El periódico ganó el premio Keystone Press de la Asociación de Periódicos de Pensilvania, División I, que se otorga al periódico metropolitano de gran tamaño que gana la mayor cantidad de premios de periodismo, en 2004, 2006 y 2010, compitiendo contra los periódicos de Filadelfia, Pittsburgh y Allentown como el periódico más pequeño de esa división.

The year 2004 also began a run in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's Newspaper of the Year Awards unmatched in the contest's history. The Patriot-News has been either first or second place as the state's Newspaper of the Year for seven years in a row, with first-place wins in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2010. The contest includes more than 50 newspapers from across the state, including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

The newspaper's reporters have won the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's Distinguished Writing Award multiple times, most recently to reporter John Luciew in 2013.^[10] The first award went to reporter Jim Lewis in 2001, 2004, and 2005. Reporter Ford Turner won second place in 2008 and first place in 2010.

In 2007, public watchdog reporter Jan Murphy won a First Amendment award from the Associated Press Managing Editors for her stories uncovering profligate spending at PHEAA, the state agency that gives college loans to students. That same year, reporter Ford Turner won the APME's Public Service award for uncovering an unusually high rate of cancer among residents of a small neighborhood of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Murphy also won first prize in investigative reporting from the National Education Writers Association for her stories on PHEAA spending.

The World Association of Newspapers Young Reader Prize for Newspaper in Education in 2007 was awarded to The Patriot-News for its SchoolHouse News program with the Harrisburg School District.

Investigative reporter Pete Shellem, who died in 2009, received widespread recognition for his work in freeing the innocent from prison. Shellem's stories in The Patriot-News resulted in the release of four people who had been convicted of murder: Patty Carbone, who had served 11 years; Steven Crawford, who had served 28 years; Barry Laughman, who had served 16 years; and David Gladden, who had served 12 years. His reporting also freed Charles Dubs, who had served five years on a rape conviction. In The New York Times obituary for Shellem, Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, called him "a rare, one-man journalism innocence project."^[11]

La reportera de sucesos y graduada de Penn State, Sara Ganim, comenzó a ganar atención nacional a raíz del escándalo de abuso sexual en Penn State tras la acusación formal del entrenador Jerry Sandusky en noviembre de 2011. Ganim había escrito un extenso artículo en marzo de 2011, cuando pocos otros cubrían la historia. Entre otros seguimientos, luego habló con dos de las madres de presuntas víctimas para el periódico inmediatamente después de la acusación. "Pueden agradecerle al Patriot-News por darme el tiempo que una reportera necesita para cubrir este tipo de historia", dijo a un columnista de medios de Nueva York que destacó especialmente su cobertura. ^{[ 12 ]} Ganim obtuvo varios premios y menciones por su reportaje ^{[ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ]} y, en marzo de 2012, el Premio Scripps Howard de Periodismo Comunitario. ^{[ 17 ]} En abril de 2012, Ganim y el equipo de noticias recibieron el Premio Pulitzer de Periodismo Local de 2012 por su cobertura. ^{[ 8 ]}

• Jan Murphy
• Charlie Thompson
• Peter Shellem
• Sara Ganim

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• PA Media Group
• PennLive.com