The Arkansas Advocate won first-place awards in three categories at the state Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Editorial Contest on Saturday, with reporter Ainsley Platt honored for her Freedom of Information reporting.
The awards were announced at the association’s annual convention in Eureka Springs.
Platt won the Meredith Oakley Freedom of Information Reporting Award for her story looking at the delays in fixes to a Department of Corrections wastewater plant.
The award is named after Oakley, a longtime reporter and columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and champion of the state’s FOI law…