The Charlotte Post earns honors in NC journalism awards

The Charlotte Post's December 12, 2024, edition included a pair of articles that earned awards from the North Carolina Press Association for sports feature writing and election/political reporting.

The Charlotte Post earned four awards at the North Carolina Press Association journalism contest.

The Post took prizes for news and sports reporting among the state’s largest community publications, with three individual awards between Herb White and Kylie Marsh as well as the staff in sports journalism. The presentations will be made Sept. 18 at the press association’s annual convention in Cary.

“The awards are testament to the talent of the men and women who power our newsgathering team and the readers we’re working for,” White said.

White earned two prizes – first place in Sports Feature Writing for a profile of Johnson C. Smith football coach Maurice Flowers and second in Election/Political Reporting for an article on a North Carolina bill that stripped powers from Democrats elected to the Council of State. 

The Dec. 12, 2024, article “Trail of a ‘coup’ by legislative authority” reports on legislative Republicans’ drive to pass a bill authored as disaster relief for communities impacted by Hurricane Helene that included a provision to shift the governor’s authority to name the chair of the state Board of Elections to the state auditor. Then-Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the bill, but Republicans overrode it.

Another Dec. 12, 2024, article “JCSU coach takes homegrown approach to football relevance” tracked Flowers’ approach to turning the Golden Bulls program from a perennial loser 50 years before his arrival to one of the top Black college teams.

Correspondent Kylie Marsh earned third in Beat News Reporting for “I don’t have any roots:’ the pain in housing displacement,” an examination of struggles working-class residents face from the pressures of gentrification. 

The Sept. 19, 2024, article also reported on the Redress Movement, a national nonprofit that organizes communities for smart growth initiatives and address the legacy of housing segregation and corresponding loss of generational wealth.

The staff earned second in Sports Coverage for March 2025, which included Jeff Hawkins’ reporting on the Carolina Panthers’ talent evaluations ahead of the NFL draft; Cameron Williams on the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament;  White on JCSU football, Charlotte FC and FIFA’s announcement of Charlotte as a host city for the Club World Cup.

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