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By Florida Trib Staff \u2013 The Florida Trib won six first-place awards<\/a>\u00a0in the Florida Society of News Editors\u2019 2026 journalism contest, including a prestigious gold medal for public service for \u201cCold-Blooded<\/a>,\u201d a series by Nichole Manna and Casey Frank about a decades-old Death Row conviction that raised questions about prosecutorial and judicial ethics, and which was cited in U.S. Supreme Court briefs.<\/p>\n The Trib won first place in every category it entered for publications of similar size. Other winning work included beat reporting on the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office and breaking news reporting about a death in the Duval County jail that sparked community outrage. Manna was involved in all those reporting efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cCold-Blooded\u201d won first place in the enterprise, features, and investigative categories, as well a gold medal, awarded each year for work that demonstrates \u201cmeritorious public service\u201d through \u201cdistinguished reporting, writing and presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is well-deserved and totally unsurprising,\u201d said Florida Trib Executive Editor Nate Monroe. \u201cNichole and Casey are singular talents, which is clear to everyone who has had the pleasure of working with them. I\u2019m gratified the judges saw the value of this important, impactful work.\u201d<\/p>\n Nichole Manna is The Florida Trib\u2019s Senior Investigative Reporter. She has been with the organization since 2023 and has covered the criminal justice system for more than a decade.<\/p>\n Manna is currently working with ProPublica\u2019s Local Reporting Network to produce an investigative project.<\/p>\n Casey Frank is The Tributary\u2019s Special Project Editor. He joined The Tributary in fall 2024 after retiring as the senior editor in charge of the Miami Herald\u2019s investigative team. Over a 10-year span, his team shared in two Pulitzer Prizes and was a finalist three other times. He twice served as a Pulitzer jurist.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Florida Trib Staff \u2013 The Florida Trib won six first-place awards\u00a0in the Florida Society of News Editors\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-214794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214794","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=214794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}