Bulletin staff honored with 10 Oregon journalism awards

Published 8:03 am Wednesday, July 23, 2025

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Karl Schmidt kayaks through rapids in the Dillon Falls stretch of the Deschutes River on Friday near Bend. 08/23/24 (Joe Kline/The Bulletin)

The Bulletin staff won 10 awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association’s yearly Associate Newspaper Contest, in reporting and news and sports photography. The winners were announced Friday.

Reporter Clayton Franke won first place in Best Enterprise Reporting for a piece on the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs’ permanent supportive housing complex for tribal members and reporter Suzanne Roig won third place in the same category for a piece on a man who, after surviving the Bend Safeway shooting, advocated for gun control. Roig also won second place for Best Feature Story General for a piece about a Bend family working to overcome the stigma around a family member’s overdose death.

Reporter Noemi Arellano-Summer won second place for Best Educational Coverage for a piece on Central Oregon Community College’s 75-year history.

Features reporter Janay Wright won third place in Best Lifestyle Coverage for a piece on the rebranding of a cheesecake food cart.

Photographer Joe Kline won first and third place in Best Feature Photo for photos of a cold plunge and the Deschutes River. He also won first place in Best Sports Photo for photo of a Summit High boys basketball game.

Photographer Dean Guernsey won first and third place for Best News Photo for photos of Mark Hipple at his homeless camp in Dirt World and of the El Sancho Taco Shop fire.

About Noemi Arellano-Summer

Noemi Arellano-Summer is schools, youth and families reporter at the Bulletin. She previously reported on homelessness and the 2020 eviction moratorium with the Howard Center of Investigative Journalism through Boston University. She was raised in Long Beach, California, where she started her journalism career reporting for her high school newspaper. In her free time, she can be found meandering through a bookstore or writing short stories.

She can be reached at noemi.arellano-summer@bendbulletin.com and 541-383-0325.

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