Idaho Press Club honors East Idaho News with over a dozen awards

BOISE — Media organizations from across the state gathered Saturday night at the Boise Centre for the Idaho Press Club Best of 2024 awards banquet.

The EastIdahoNews.com team was honored with multiple awards, including overall general excellence in the online-only news category.

Other East Idaho News awards included:

• First place – Outdoor Feature (Daily): David Pace – Surviving a bear attack
• Second place – Outdoor Feature (Daily): Kaitlyn Hart – Locals petition to ‘End the Red Light District’ in Bingham County. It’s not what you think.
• Second place – Editorial (Daily): Nate Sunderland – Journalistic privacy, not subpoenas
• Third place – Sports Prep News Story (Daily): Kalama Hines – Hillcrest shows they are no one’s ‘little brother’
• First place – Arts/Entertainment Report (Daily): Rett Nelson – The end of the drive-in theater?
• Third place – Political Report (Daily): Isabella Sosa-Salazar – Mixed-status families navigate a legal web and fear separation
• First place – Environment Report (Daily): Kaitlyn Hart – Digging through World War II trash in the Idaho desert
• First place – Outdoor/Environment Report – TV (Division B): Isabella Sosa-Salazar – Tourists vs. Wildlife: The Dangers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
• Second place – Best Live Shot – TV (Division B): Nate Eaton, Jordan Wood – Reporting live: Daybell home demolished
• Second place – Sports News Story – TV (Division B): Andrea Olson – Spud Kings hockey for a cause
• First place – Media Innovation Award: Nate Eaton – Courtroom Insider: The Chad Daybell Trial
• Third place – Best Online-Only Video News Story: Nate Eaton, Jordan Wood – Space generators and the future
• First place – Best Online-Only Video Feature Story: Nate Eaton, Jordan Wood – Remembering Abbi and the crash that was “1,000% preventable“

Winners were picked from hundreds of stories published, posted or aired in during last year. You can find a list of all the winners here.