WW Wins Three First Prizes in Alternative Press Awards

Among our winners: an examination of an ivermectin-swilling podcaster.

Linnton Feed & Seed experienced a run on Ivermectin. (Thomas Teal)
By Aaron Mesh

From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion: WW received six awards last week from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, which recognizes the best journalism produced across the nation by alt-weeklies.

Among the honors were three first prizes.

Rachel Monahan won the Special Vaccine Coverage Award for her reporting on vaccine-skeptical Oregonians (“Long Shot,” Jan. 6, 2021). The story was was supported by the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Anthony Effinger took first prize for health care reporting with his profile of Bret Weinstein, the podcaster peddling Invermectin (“Drug and Pony Show,” Sept. 15, 2021).

And Tess Riski was awarded top prize in long-form news story for revealing the rise in armed robberies at cannabis shops (“Killer Weed,” March 3, 2021).

Next week, Riski begins work on the city desk of the Miami Herald.

Aaron Mesh

Aaron Mesh

Aaron Mesh is WW's editor. He’s a Florida man who enjoys waterfalls, Trail Blazers basketball and Brutalist architecture.

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