LINCOLN — The Lexington Clipper-Herald won three awards in the Nebraska Press Association’s 2024 Better Newspaper Contest during the group’s annual convention last week.
Former and current staffers of the newspaper received one first-place, second-place and third-place award apiece at the NPA’s closing banquet Saturday at the Lincoln Cornhusker Marriott Hotel.
Better Newspaper Contest award winners for advertising, photography and digital and news content were announced at the banquet. The Clipper-Herald competed in Division C for weekly papers.
Clipper-Herald staff members combined to win the top Division C award for “general excellence,” in which judges weighed the quality of three issues of the paper from different months during 2023.
Former News Editor Brian Neben received a second-place award for best front page. Sports Editor Jessica Kennedy won third place for best sports feature photo.
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During the two-day event, Dee Klein of North Platte was elected 2024-25 president of the Nebraska Press Advertising Service/OnePress.
Klein, who joined the North Platte Telegraph in 1990, oversees the Clipper-Herald as Lee Enterprises’ regional business development director for western Nebraska. She succeeds Marcia Hora of Stapleton, owner and publisher of the Stapleton Enterprise, McPherson County News and Thomas County Herald.
