Pittsburgh Magazine won five awards Tuesday night at the 60th annual Golden Quill Awards sponsored by The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. This included a win in a new category — Excellence in Collaboration — with the nonprofit newsroom, PublicSource.

Taking first place in Excellence in Journalistic Craft Achievement in Division 4: Page Design was Creative Director Huck Beard for “The Wall Street of Pittsburgh,” which appeared in our July 2023 edition. 

The Excellence in Collaboration award was for “Power Shift: Dozens of the Pittsburgh Area’s Top Institutions Are Going Through Leadership Changes. The Turnover Could Echo for Decades,” the cover story for February 2023. Pittsburgh Magazine Staff and PublicSource Staff  

FROM LEFT: PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE EDITOR VIRGINIA LINN, CREATIVE DIRECTOR HUCK BEARD AND CORRESPONDENTS CRISTINA ROUVALIS AND EMILY CATALANO.

Correspondent Emily Catalano took two awards: In the Lifestyle category, “The Private Lives of Baseball Wives” (April 2023) and in Sports, “The Ultimate Guide to Pickleball in Pittsburgh” (July 2023).

Longtime correspondent Cristina Rouvalis won in the Division 4 Arts/Entertainment category: “Giving Writers Back Their Voices: A Year After the Horrific Attack on Salman Rushdie, the Work of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum Is Needed More than Ever,” which appeared in our August 2023 edition.  

Pittsburgh Magazine also had six finalists in five other categories:

• Excellence in Written Journalism — Division 4 Business/Technology/Consumer

“Fired Up! In the Shadow of the Carrie Furnace Complex, Film Studios Are on the Rise”

Maria Sciullo  

• Lifestyle, “Fall in the Forest”  

Meg St-Esprit  

• Education

“Defeating Dyslexia: Provident Charter School, the State’s First Public School Aimed at Helping Students Overcome Dyslexia, Uses a Mind, Body and Soul Approach to Learning”

Amy Whipple  

• “The Future of Higher Education Is Already Here: After the Release of ChatGPT, Professors at Pittsburgh’s Colleges and Universities Are Grappling With New Artificial Intelligence Tools Will Change Work in the Classroom”

Summer 2023 Interns Emma Malinak and Abby Yoder

• Columns/Blogs

“Dahn Memory Lane” History Column

Virginia Montanez

• Cover Design – Print

“Foodie Road Trips: 6 Adventures With Fork & Knife”

Huck Beard