The ''Asbury Park Press'' is a daily

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in Monmouth and Ocean counties of

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and has the third largest circulation in the state. It has been owned by Gannett since 1997. Its reporting staff has been awarded numerous national honors in journalism, including the

Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting The Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, given by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectar ...

, two the Associated Press Managing Editors' Award for Public Service, the National Headliner Award for Public Service and two National Headliner Awards for Best Series (large papers). The ''Press'' investigative team was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. The newspaper was also the home to

editorial cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or curren ...

Steve Breen Stephen Paul Breen (born April 26, 1970) is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning twice, in 1998 and 2009. Biography He graduated from Huntington Beach High School in 1988 and attended the Univers ...

when he won the Pulitzer Prize in that category in 1998.

Awards

The Asbury Park Press has a history of winning national awards for its public service and investigative reporting. Its editorial cartoonist

won the

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning The Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary is one of the fourteen Pulitzer Prizes that is annually awarded for journalism in the United States. It is the successor to the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning awarded from 1922 t ...

in 1998 and the newspaper was a finalist for the Pulitzer Public Service Gold Medal in 2010.

References

External links

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