NJ Advance Media wins General Excellence prize at NJPAs, takes home 73 awards [Video]

NJ Advance Media/The Star-Ledger won the General Excellence honor in the 2023 New Jersey Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, taking home a total of 73 awards in editorial, advertising and photography categories at the group’s annual ceremony Thursday.

It is the third year in a row NJ Advance Media/The Star-Ledger took home the General Excellence award.

For the journalism competition, The Star-Ledger competes in the New Jersey Press Association’s larger circulation division. Its sister publications, lehighvalleylive.com/The Express-Times, compete in the smaller circulation division.

“What impresses me most about our performance this contest year is the range of categories in which we were judged the best. From Public Service to First Amendment, from Enterprise to Sports Writing, our team demonstrated a standard that separated us from our peers, whom we respect immensely,” said Ronnie Agnew, NJ Advance Media’s General Manager.

“Our No. 1 objective is to serve our audience. It is gratifying, however, to be recognized in such a significant way by the judges,” Agnew …