Congrats

YDR staffers are all over the 2010 Keystone Awards, and the honors include some of the best written-word and visual storytelling we did last year:

• Melissa Nann Burke's narrative of a man who lost his voice to a stroke but got it back;
  
• Jeff Frantz's narrative about a woman who waited decades to find out what really happened to her brother in World War II;
  
• Frantz's profile of a boy who lost parts of four limbs to an infection and who now lobbies on behalf of amputees;
• Paul Kuehnel's photo story of that boy;
• Kate Penn's Gettysburg soldier portraits;
  
• Jim Seip's tale of a great William Penn swimmer; and
• Tom Joyce's story about how Lyme disease and its diagnosis -- or misdiagnosis -- is a growing problem.
  

Congrats to all of them, as well as to all those whose strong writing efforts weren't recognized by PNA but still stood and, and help push us to be better storytellers.

The Keystones also recognized YDR people for investigative reporting, online reporting and features, editorials, design, graphic/photo illustration, headline writing, niche publications, special projects and series. So much so that, by my count, 22 staffers' names appear on the list.

I think that's fantastic -- maybe the best news coming out of the awards. Congratulations to all.