Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Seven Days Receives 37 Awards at the 2025 NENPA Convention
Seven Days won more editorial awards than any other publication in the region at the 2025 New England Newspaper Convention in Portland, Maine, on March 29. The competition, hosted by the New England Newspaper & Press Association, honors outstanding work by newspapers and online news outlets.
Read on for a list of our first-place finishers. In most cases, Seven Days competed against other large-circulation weeklies. We’re very grateful to NENPA for the recognition — and to the advertisers and Super Readers who support our work!
1st Place Awards
Arts & Entertainment Reporting
Chelsea Edgar, for “Circus of Life”
Crime and Courts Reporting
Derek Brouwer and Colin Flanders, for “From Room 37 to Cell 17”
General News Story
Seven Days Staff, for “Totally Transfixed”
Racial, Ethnic or Gender Issue Coverage
Rachel Hellman, for “Taking Refuge”
Education Reporting
Anne Wallace Allen, for “Pass or Fail?”
Local Personality Profile
Courtney Lamdin, for “Armed With a Video Camera, One Man Documents Crime and Disorder in Burlington”
Investigative / Enterprise Reporting
Joe Sexton, for “The Loss of Grace”
Climate change or weather reporting
Ken Picard, for “On Thin Ice”
Eva Sollberger, for “Plainfield Recovers From Catastrophic Flood”
Event Special Section
Seven Days Staff, for “Where the Sun Don’t Shine: Seven Days Guide to the 2024 Solar Eclipse”
Food Page or Section
Melissa Pasanen and Jordan Barry, for the food section in the November 15, 2023, issue
Spot News Video
Eva Sollberger, for “‘Stuck in Vermont’ During the Eclipse"
Overall Design and Presentation
Seven Days Design Team, for “Totally Transfixed”
Headline Writing
Seven Days Staff, for Best Headlines
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