Friday, March 29, 2024

The Vienna Times photo takes first place in national contest

VT-pg10A photograph that was featured on the front page of the March 7, 2013 edition of The Vienna Times took top honors in the National Newspaper Association’s first quarter news photo contest. The contest is conducted by NNA’s newspaper, Publishers’ Auxiliary. Hundreds of newspapers from across the United States compete in the contest annually. The photograph, by The Vienna Times’ publisher Lonnie Hinton, was of the March 4, 2013 apartment fire on the Vienna Square that displaced two families. Hinton and his photograph are featured in the January 2014 edition of Publishers’ Auxiliary. This is the second time Hinton has taken first place in the contest. His first win came in 2011 and featured a barn fire that occurred west of Vienna.