Half Moon Bay Review wins nine awards

Half Moon Bay Review sportswriter Mark Foyer took first place for top breaking news photo with this shot from the 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest. The unexpected wave broke over the contest staging area, injuring several spectators.

The Half Moon Bay Review took home nine awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. The contest results, for work done in 2010, were announced during a luncheon Saturday at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles.

The newspaper competes in the weekly newspaper category for publications with circulations between 4,300 and 11,000.

The Review won five first place awards. They are, Breaking News Photo, Editorial Pages, Illustration or Graphic, Lifestyle Coverage, and Environmental or Agricultural Resource Reporting . The second-place awards were for Local News Coverage, Front Page, Layout and Design, and Photo Essay.

“The awards are no surprise to me,” said Half Moon Bay Review Managing Editor Clay Lambert. “We are blessed with multi-talented journalists who will do anything to get accurate, timely information to readers. I thank my lucky stars every day to have a news staff like the one at the Half Moon Bay Review.”

There are 841 member publications within the statewide publishers’ association.