A new San Antonio Express-News reporter, Marina Starleaf Riker, was named the recipient of the Charles E. Green Award for her reporting and writing final year while working for the Victoria Advocate. The award changed into announced Sunday in Austin at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors convention, which had given Riker a first-place finish because of the Star Reporter of the Year for the Victoria paper’s news class. Express-News Staff Writer Silvia Foster-Frau gained equal honor for the most important circulated documents.
The four winners in this class competed for the Star of Stars Reporter of the Year fame of the Green award, which has a $1,000 prize. Riker’s work in 2018 centered on the financial inequity of Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath and the conduct of a non-profit housing company that rents to low-income tenants, in testimonies that documented a local scarcity of low-cost housing that millions of dollars of federal resources did not do anything to improve.
Also introduced Sunday have been numerous different APME awards that went to the Express-News or its personnel: a 2nd-vicinity finish for Online Newspaper of the Year; a 3rd location within the Community Service category for editorial author and columnist Josh Brodsky; the 3rd vicinity for Newspaper of the Year, whose top award was received via its sister newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. Riker’s work at the Advocate also secured her a first-place finish in the APME contest’s Freedom of Information class.
