News Journal wins 17 awards — find the winning work here

The News Journal and Delaware Online won 17 awards across a wide range of categories in the 2017 MDDC Press Association Awards. 

MDDC represents newspapers in Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. The organization announced the winners at its annual conference Friday. 

The awards divide newspapers into divisions based on their circulation. In every award category, a first- and second-place winner are named in each division. The News Journal competes in the largest-circulation division, which includes The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun. 

News Journal reporters and visual journalists took home seven first-place awards and ten second-place awards. You can find links to the award-winning work below:

First-place awards

Second-place awards