CityView earned seven prizes in the North Carolina Press Association’s 2024-25 News, Editorial & Photojournalism Contest, including three first-place awards.
A series of stories from CityView received the first place Mark Binker Public Notice Award for our reporting on American Titanium Metal and the company’s plans to build a titanium reclamation plant in Fayetteville. The award recognizes a news article or series of articles “triggered by the publication of a public notice in a newspaper.” After finding a legal notice about the project in the Fayetteville Observer, our staff continued to produce dogged reporting that explored the possible environmental and economic effects of the titanium plant on Fayetteville and Cumberland County.
Columnist Bill Kirby Jr. was awarded first place in the serious columns category. The columns covered the legacy of Eddie Maynor, an everyman with brushes, combs and charm; the efforts of a Fayetteville real estate agent to assist Hurricane Helene victims; and the work of the New Child Advocacy Center to protect and support abused children.
Our monthly CityView Magazine received first, second and third place in the magazine or niche publication category. We received first place for the March 2025 “Women’s Issue”; second place for the July 2024 “Military Issue”; and third place for our 2024-25 DestinationFAY magazine, an annual publication and guide to the Greater Fayetteville area and Cumberland County.
Government reporter Evey Weisblat received a second-place award in the general news reporting category for her story on the efforts of the Kinlaw family to rebuild Kinlaw’s Supermarket, a staple of east Fayetteville for more than four decades, after a powerful fire destroyed the building.
Former CityView reporter Lexi Solomon won third place in education reporting for her story explaining what is driving chronic absenteeism among students in Cumberland County Schools. Her story combined deep reporting and data analysis to break down a trend affecting students and their families in Cumberland County.
The Assembly also won first place in city and county government reporting for a regional collaborative story between reporters across its network, including at CityView. The story investigated the success and impacts of ShotSpotter — a controversial gunshot detection technology intended to curb gun violence — across North Carolina cities.
In addition to our N.C. Press Association prizes, we also earned a second-place award in the environmental reporting category in the Green Eyeshade Awards, a regional competition that recognizes the best journalism in the Southeast. The winning story was a collaboration between CityView and The Assembly by CityView Editor-in-Chief Maydha Devarajan and reporter Daniel Walton about the effects of “forever chemicals” in the Cape Fear River watershed and the limitations of regulatory actions to protect North Carolinians from water contamination.
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