Oamaru Mail staff (from left) Dawn Murphy, John Shaw, Steve Wicks, Sharyn Pope, Mark Julius, Rebecca Ryan, Ruby Heyward, Kayla Hodge and Ashley Smyth. PHOTO: SALLY RAE
The Allied Press-owned newspaper won the Frank Veale Memorial Award for Best Community Newspaper, it was announced yesterday.
Judges said the paper, edited by North Otago bureau chief Rebecca Ryan, won ‘‘principally because of a weight and breadth of local coverage, some outstanding photographs — and, overall, a lot of photos, well displayed — and consistently good, uncluttered layout’’.
Kayla Hodge.
Rebecca Ryan.
Mail reporter Kayla Hodge, who also worked for fellow Allied Press newspaper The Ensign during the qualifying period, was named best junior sports journalist, an award she also claimed while at The Ensign in 2019.
