The headline basically says it all: City Paper has been judged the overall best non-daily newspaper in the state by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in its annual Newspaper of the Year awards. Papers from all over the state sent in randomly selected issues and were assessed on a host of criteria, including news coverage, opinion pages, layout and design and advertising, among others. We competed in Division V, or larger circulation non-dailies, which includes alt-weeklies, business journals, community papers and the like. You can peep all the individual categories here.

CP won first place in Newswriting Excellence, Layout & Design and Editorial/Opinion Page Excellence, and second place in Advertising Excellence, Best Use of Photography and Special Section.

Congrats all around.

Dept. of Thank You, Thank You Very Much: City Paper named newspaper of the year!