Media awards: Commentary on Coast’s top topics earns state recognition

From opinions on the Fraser fire to the Coast’s council and crime, these are the pieces praised as the best.

Fraser Coast Chronicle editor Jessica Grewal, pictured bottom left with fiance Tim Wessling, took first place in the Best Regular Column category at the Queensland Country Press Association Awards in Brisbane.

Hard-hitting opinions on the topics which matter most to the Fraser Coast earned Chronicle editor Jessica Grewal state recognition at the weekend.

Her winning editorials were praised as examples of ongoing regional media leadership and a willingness to dig deeper on important issues even in a post-print era.

You can read them here:

• Why some may drink to ex-mayor's pub test claim
• When the smoke clears, we must have answers
• Dismissing drug trends does more damage
• Why 16-storey vote will set tone for Coast's future
• This is the most important council feedback you can give

The QCPA takes in 78 titles from across the state.

News Corp’s regional network, of which the Chronicle is part, swept the journalism excellence and photography categories with multiple wins also going to the Mackay Daily Mercury, Sunshine Coast Daily and the company’s southwest division.

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