{"id":213397,"date":"2026-03-31T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213397\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:54:08","slug":"orlando-sentinel-wins-3-1st-place-awards-from-florida-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213397\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Sentinel wins 3 1st-place awards from Florida editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Society of News Editors awarded the Orlando Sentinel three first-place prizes this year for its work in breaking news, editorials and features video.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel staff took first place in breaking news for collaborating on the Epic Universe opening, providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/05\/22\/epic-universe-opens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coverage on wait times<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/05\/18\/epic-universe-ride-reviews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ride guide for the park<\/a> and a timeline of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/05\/18\/epic-universe-timeline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how the theme park evolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Krys Fluker was recognized for her editorial work on the state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/08\/21\/editorial-state-sponsored-vandalism-cant-dim-orlandos-colors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">painting over the Pulse rainbow crosswalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Rich Pope won for his video feature on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/05\/04\/for-the-strength-of-their-combined-voices-alison-and-jj-holmes-are-central-floridians-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Floridian of the Year.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news organization also took home five second-place finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel staff won a second place award for breaking news for coverage of the Pulse crosswalk, while reporters Ryan Gillespie and Natalia Jaramillo received a prize for enterprise stories on immigration, Mike Bianchi received one for sports and Rich Pope nabbed one for a video, \u201cRestaurant of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Edgar Thompson and Wesley Alden won second place in the multimedia category for their \u201cSwamp Things\u201d podcast, which is a deep dive into the Florida Gators\u2019 sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>For third place, Krys Fluker took home an award for editorials on U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, Steven Walker was honored for education beat reporting and Scott Maxwell for his columns. Editor-in-chief Roger Simmons received an award for his photo feature \u201cTicked Pink: Flamingos at Merritt Island\u201d while Joe Burbank took home an award for a photo story, \u201cBeauty of the Blue Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur newsroom\u2019s primary goal is creating unique and important stories to help our readers navigate their lives in an increasingly chaotic, confusing world,\u201d said Roger Simmons, executive editor of the Sentinel. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for our peers\u2019 recognition that some of our work is among the best in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida Society of News Editors awarded the Orlando Sentinel three first-place prizes this year for its work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,266,115,139,141,140,109],"class_list":["post-213397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}