How do you top that?
The Prince George Citizen has added another trophy to its shelf by winning the 2013 Canadian Community Newspaper Award for best headline writing.
"These days, the art of writing good headlines is as important as ever," said managing editor Neil Godbout. "Our editors do a really good job on deadline of coming up with catchy and accurate headlines that summarize stories."
The two submissions were the lead story on June 2, 2012 about the lawsuit between Caribou Brewmasters and Pacific Western Brewery: "Beermakers at lager-heads" with the secondary headline: "Suds fly in legal brew-haha" and a front-page story by Frank Peebles on April 28, 2012 about a pocket 911 call that lead to a drug bust with the headline: "Nine-one-dumb" and the secondary headline: "Wrong number drops dime on dope op."
The runners up in the headline category were the Sooke News Mirror and The Saint Croix Courier from St. Stephen, N.B.
The awards are handed out by Newspapers Canada, a joint initiative of the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Canadian Community Newspapers Association. The 2013 competition saw more than 250 publications from across the country submit more than 2,000 entries for 33 categories representing their best work from 2012.
