1st Place: Julian Emerson
2nd Place: Tom Giffey
3rd Place: Eric Lindquist

When it comes to our local news in print, none do it better than the Leader-Telegram. And, more specifically, these three repeat winners. Julian Emerson is often writing about city government or an investigative piece, and ever since April of 2008 has broke every last detail on the ongoing saga of Bill Klaus. And it’s likely that you’ve seen him running the city trails this summer. Tom Giffey is the L-T’s editorial/opinion editor – maybe you know him from his always informed, often liberal viewpoints in “Giff’s Riffs” – and resident Twitter enthusiast as well as the Western Wisconsin Press Club president. Eric Lindquist is the special projects editor, better known to layman as the purveyor of long, in-depth stories. Perhaps you remember his noteworthy piece on teenage pregnancy from back in January, where he tactfully examined the touchy issue using the story of one Altoona girl. – Trevor Kupfer