Golden Quill Winners
Honoring excellence
The Club's signature event — the Golden Quill Awards — attracts hundreds of journalists from the 29 counties that compose Western Pennsylvania and nearby counties in Ohio and West Virginia for an evening honoring the best journalism in the region.
Because of the scope of the competition, winning a Golden Quill is an accomplishment that will bring personal satisfaction as well as an enhanced resume.
Kate Giammarise and Rich Lord at the 2022 Golden Quills at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. They won for their series “Tenant Cities” in a collaboration between PublicSource and WESA.
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Anne-Marie Welsh, director of communications for the Diocese of Erie, and Service to Journalism Award recipient Monsignor Thomas J. McSweeney at the 2023 Golden Quill Awards.
Deborah Acklin, recipient of the President’s Award, flanked by Mindy Gawlas, left, and Gloria Kreps at the 2023 Quills.
2023 Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship winner and Penn State student Lauren Haffner.
Press Club board members Kim Palmiero, Ann Hohn and Luis Fabregas at the 2023 Golden Quills dinner.
2023 Golden Quill winner and cartoonist Joe Wos.
2023 Golden Quill winner and Postindustrial contributor Zubair Babakarkhail, an Afghan journalist.
2023 Golden Quill Winner Adam Reinherz of the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
2023 Kamera Dorsey, who won a Golden Quill for work done for WQED-FM.
2023 Service to Journalism Award recipients James Busis, CEO and publisher of Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, left, and Monsignor Thomas J. McSweeney, former executive editor of Faith magazine.
Sean Stipp of the Tribune-Review won the Ed Romano Memorial Award for Videography in 2022 for a project he did with Chris Benson and Jason Cato.
Press Club Board Member Andy Conte and Barbara Johnson, co-hosts of the 2022 Golden Quill Awards dinner.
Cindi Lash, WESA executive editor, accepting the Ed King Memorial Award on behalf of the station in 2022.
Jennifer Bertetto, president and CEO of Trib Total Media, recipient of the 2022 Service to Journalism Award.
Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism's Brittany Haller, winner of the 2022 Ray Sprigle award for her story on the Allegheny County Jail kitchen.
Lynne Hayes-Freeland of KDKA, winner of the 2022 President's Award.
Rick Monti, scholarship chair, left, with award winner Peyton Schaffer and Press Club President Helen Fallon in 2022.