For six years, Omaha Magazine has been participating in the Great Plains Journalism Awards, which annually recognizes the best newspaper and magazine journalism in the Midwest. 

The eight-state competition includes Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota.

This year, Omaha Magazine added eight more wins, thanks to our incredible staff and writers. This team has continuously strived to be better, pushing themselves to be more creative and to find the stories people want to read. We couldn’t be prouder.  

We would like to congratulate all of this year’s winners, and offer our special thank you and congratulations to our crew and to the people who allow us to share a part of their story. 

• Feature Writing
  Doug Meigs
  Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark 

• Profile Writing
  Doug Meigs
  Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark

• Lifestyle Writing
  Julius Fredrick
  From Shizuoka with Love

• Magazine Page Design Profile
  Matt Wieczorek
  Passion Player—Catie Zeleski

• Magazine Page Design Lifestyle
  Mady Besch
  Crafty Concrete

• Magazine Page Design—General
  Matt Wieczorek
  Sage Student Bistro

• Magazine Portrait Winner
  Bill Sitzmann
  The Phoenix Resurrection of Turkeys in Nebraska—Dick Turpin

• Magazine Lifestyle Photography
  Bill Sitzmann
  Shooting The Stars—Jesse Attanasio

“I am proud of our talented staff and we are honored to tell the stories of the people of Omaha,” Omaha Magazine Publisher Todd Lemke says. “It's great to be recognized by our peers as being right up there with the best of the best in an eight-state regional competition where Omaha Magazine was recognized as a finalist—let alone a winner.”

To see the complete list of winners and runners-up, click here.