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The Star-Revue Media Organization Wins Statewide Awards

The Star-Revue is a member of the New York State Press Association, a trade organization for community newspapers that was founded in 1853. Every year they run a Better Newspaper Contest, and over the years we have frequently won awards. Between the two papers we publish – we took five awards (below)

This year we won two in Brooklyn — one for Spot News Coverage, which was my article about the warehouse fire at 481 Van Brunt Street, where we used to be a tenant. The other was for Eric Newstrom’s outstanding News Coverage of the ongoing Brooklyn Marine Terminal fiasco.

In Manhattan (where we also now publish the Village Star-Revue ), we won three awards. As we wrote in the May issue of that paper:

The 173 year old New York State Press Association is a trade organizations for community newspapers. They hold an Oscar-like contest at its annual spring convention, held in Saratoga Springs.

Last year, the Village Sun won a number of awards for stories that ran in 2024. This year, the Village Star-Revue took three awards in its very first year of eligibility.

“Next year, we hope to win a bunch of first places,” said publisher George Fiala, who himself won a second place for Front Page Design.
Phyllis Eckhaus and Michele Herman both won awards for Historical Story.

The Star-Revue also publishes a paper based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. That paper won two awards.

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  • George Fiala

    George Fiala has worked in radio, newspapers and direct marketing his whole life, except for when he was a vendor at Shea Stadium, pizza and cheesesteak maker in Lancaster, PA, and an occasional comic book dealer. He studied English and drinking in college, international relations at the New School, and in his spare time plays drums and fixes pinball machines.

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