Fresnoland and SJV Water take top honors in 2024 Gruner Awards

May 9, 2024.Reading time 14 minutes.

Prize winners of the George F. Gruner Award, Omar Shaikh Rashad and Lois Henry, pose with George F. Gruner.

Story by Jim Boren, director of the Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State.

Fresno Bee and Mariposa Gazette take top honors at Gruner Awards

April 24, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Nicole Little, Mariposa Gazette; George Gruner and Yesenia Amaro, Fresno Bee at the Gruner Awards ceremony.

The Fresno Bee and the Mariposa Gazette won top honors on April 19 at the 35th annual George F. Gruner Awards journalism competition for news publications in the Central San Joaquin Valley.

This month in the Arts and Humanities — March’s Top 5

April 2, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Featured images from March's Top 5 articles

We look back on another eventful month in the College of Arts and Humanities. Here are the top five stories from the month of March. Communication student presents at WSCA’s Undergrad Conference A recent Fresno State graduate presented her piece “Mourning the Living: Grieving a Transgender Relative’s Previous Gender Identity” at the WSCA’s 15th annual […]

Four Valley newspaper writers win Gruner Awards for Public Service

March 2, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Four reporters at three San Joaquin Valley newspapers won 2017 George F. Gruner Prizes for Meritorious Public Service in journalism. The awards for work published in 2017 were announced Thursday, March 1, at the 30th annual Gruner Awards ceremony at the Fresno Art Museum.

8 Valley newspaper writers win Gruner Awards for Public Service

February 24, 2017.Reading time 8 minutes.

PHOTO: From left, Professor Gary Rice, George F. Gruner and former Fresno Bee Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye. (Courtesy of Joe Wirt/CNPA) Eight reporters at three San Joaquin Valley newspapers won 2016 George F. Gruner Prizes for Meritorious Public Service in journalism. The awards for work published in 2016 were announced Thursday, Feb. 23, at the […]

Investigative reporting by MCJ alum wins national journalism award

November 28, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Jeanine Michelle Fiser, who graduated in spring 2016 with a degree from the MCJ Department, won The Newspaper Guild‘s prestigious David S. Barr Award, a nationwide honor given to student journalists who focus on social justice issues. The package of investigative articles that Fiser, of Hanford, wrote for the Sanger Herald – looking into the […]