A for the in community service for Drilling through Danger!
— Linda Shapley (@LindaShapley)
The Denver Post received the Community Service Award for videos in the Drilling Through Danger project, which recounted the 51 Colorado deaths from 2003 to 2014 that were related to jobs in the oil and gas industry.
One of those stories by video journalist Lindsay Pierce won an individual award for Public Affairs Feature/Segment. The story featured the family of Matt Smith, who died on a Weld County oilfield in 2014.
Pierce also won for her documentary on , who was interned in Colorado’s Camp Amache during World War II.
The Post had received nine nominations in the regional competition, which includes television stations, news organizations and other groups from five states.
