The Butler Eagle picked up an honor and its sister paper, Pittsburgh City Paper, garnered four 2021 Professional Keystone Media awards.

Late last week, the Keystone awards released its list of winners, and among them were Eagle staff writer Alex Weidenhof’s second-place win in the News Beat Reporting category for his set of stories, titled “Westinghouse campus purchase shrouded in mystery.” The stories in the series detailed the mysterious manner in which the Westinghouse campus in Cranberry Township was sold.

The Pittsburgh City Paper, which is owned by the Eagle, won four awards. The paper’s staff nabbed a first-place prize in the Special Section category for “The Health Issue,” which focused on mental health and suicide prevention, and was dedicated to Alex Gordon, a former managing editor with the paper who died of suicide in October 2020.

Abbie Adams, the City Paper’s art director, received a second-place award in the Feature Page Design category for layout on “Preserving Pittsburgh,” a story by Hannah Lynn on Pittsburgh’s archive department working to make the city’s history more accessible. Adams also picked up an honorable mention in the Graphic/Photo Illustration category for “Black Lives Matter activists in rural Bedford County.” City Paper news editor Ryan Deto and writer Joseph Darius Jaafari took an honorable mention in the News Feature Story category for a story published in partnership with state nonprofit newsroom Spotlight PA on how video footage did not support state police accounts of a confrontation before shots being fired at a group of civil rights marchers in Central Pennsylvania.

The Keystone awards are presented by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association.