Times staffers, pictured from left, are: Publisher/Advertising Manager Jenny Yarger, Feature Writer Sue Ann Jones, Editor Jessi Dreckman, Graphic Designer/Circulation Manager Regina Mozingo and Owner Norene Prososki
The Ozark County Times won multiple awards at the Missouri Press Association’s 2024 Better Newspaper Contest announced recently. The awards are for work published in 2023. The paper picked up four first place and one third place awards competing against newspapers of similar circulation size across the state.
Jessi Dreckman won the first place award for best front page. The award is based largely on a newspaper’s front page design.
The Time’s staff as a whole won first place in the best special section of magazine publication with its 2024 Real Ozarks Magazine, an annual guide published in the spring that gives readers a glimpse of all there is to do and see in Ozark County.
Sue Ann Jones won first place in the category of best military story for her article about Gainesville resident and Navy Veteran Norman Hartman and his trip with the Honor Flight.
Jones also took home a first place plaque for the best feature obituary for the last John Harlin with a two-part article titled “The loss of an Ozark County Icon: John Harlin”.
Former Ozark County Times reporter Bruce Roberts won a third place award for best news photograph for his picture of the Lutie School bus barn that was blown down during a storm.
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