Politics & Government
Bulletin Wins New England Publick Occurrences Award
New Hampshire Bulletin reporter Hadley Barndollar was recognized with a pair of Publick Occurrences Awards during the NENPA ceremony.
New Hampshire Bulletin reporter Hadley Barndollar was recognized with a pair of Publick Occurrences Awards during the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s 2023 ceremony on Thursday morning.
Barndollar’s winning piece for the Bulletin, published in May, explores the continuing impact of dangerous and ubiquitous “forever chemicals” known as PCBs. The article – titled “A forever chemical you’ve heard little about. Banned since 1979, PCBs are everywhere in NH.” – begins by placing readers in a lab where something deeply troubling for New Hampshire lurks. Barndollar writes: “Liquid simmers and gurgles in the bulbous flasks sitting atop a multi-unit heating system. Drenched in fluorescent light, the complex chemistry contraption is continuously bathing clumps of soil, window caulking, concrete, paint chips, and sediment in a solvent – a steady drip to strip the samples of an insidious contaminant.”
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“It is a story that restores a sense of urgency about environmental contaminants wrongly placed in the background as newer threats emerged,” said Dana Wormald, editor of the Bulletin. “By way of thorough and thoughtful reporting, Hadley placed the issue back in the public consciousness, where it belongs.”
Barndollar also won a second award for a story she published in her previous job as New England regional reporter for the USA TODAY Network. The story, part of an East Coast-wide climate change project called “Perilous Course,” took readers to a coastal colonial-era cemetery in Cohasset, Massachusetts, that faced increasing flooding events, putting dozens of graves underwater. She detailed the race to save history and the emotional turmoil for living loved ones.
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The New England Newspaper and Press Association’s annual Publick Occurrences Awards recognize the best work that New England news organizations produce each year in individual or team stories, series, spot news coverage, columns, or photojournalism that ran in print and/or online.
The New Hampshire Bulletin, the Granite State's newest independent, nonprofit news organization, delivers accountability reporting on New Hampshire politics and policies. The New Hampshire Bulletin is part of States Newsroom, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by grants and a coalition of donors and readers.
