Excellence in Journalism Awards

Two blog posts by Anthony Buccino have won awards in the Society of Professional Journalists NJ Chapter 2014 Excellence in Journalism Awards.

Time to Change the Air Conditioner earned second place in Online - Enterprise/Series /Investigative Reporting.

Riding Under the PATH Train earned second place in Media Affiliated Blog.

Both award-winning blogs were published on NJ.Com. You can see more of his posts at this link.

Entries were judged by Florida SPJ chapter members. Awards will be distributed at the Yogi Berra Museum on June 28, 2014. See a complete list of winners.

Riding Under the PATH Train

We are gliding under the Witt Penn Bridge in Jersey City. There on the north side naked trestles await the next generation bridge. The thunder we hear riding under the PATH train bridge! We are clear soon enough to see the commuter train exit the bridge heading west to Harrison and Newark.

PATH commuter train travels parallel to the Passaic River in northern New Jersey.Anthony Buccino 

How many times have I been on that PATH train while we stopped as the bridges were drawn to let some tall masted ship pass by? 

From where we stood, sardine-like, in the tin can rail car, we could only ever guess at the holdup outside. 

How many times have riders looked north from those trains and guessed at the real name of Fraternity Rock rising from the swamps.

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