County of Gaston issued the following announcement on May 2.
Gaston County was among 29 North Carolina governments to earn recognition in the North Carolina City & County Communicators (NC3C) 2022 Excellence in Communications Awards. Gaston County won four first place awards and a second place award, tied for the second most total awards of any government agency that entered the contest.
The awards were announced April 28, 2022, during NC3C’s 2022 annual conference in Greenville, North Carolina. All 111 award program entries were judged by professional communications peers from the Minnesota Association of Government Communicators.
“The Excellence in Communications Awards are my favorite part of our annual conference, right behind seeing all my friends and colleagues from across the state,” said outgoing NC3C President Joshua Harris, City of Lenoir, NC. “It’s the time when our members really get to shine for creating content that rose to the top, which is not so easy a feat in our state full of amazing local government communicators.”
After winning its first-ever NC3C award in 2021 for its annual report, Gaston County again took home first place in the annual report category this year with its “Gaston County Annual Report Card.” The report was designed by Budget Analyst Elizabeth Harry, Assistant Budget Director Taylor Drury and Communications Fellow Joshua Braswell, with the writing done by Harry and Communications Director Adam Gaub.
Gaston County also won first place in three video category entries: For special programming for its “Vaccine Hesitancy” documentary, which was written by Gaub and filmed and edited by Cable Access Coordinator Todd Ward; for regular programming for its “Eye on Gaston” news video series, which features script writing and interviews by Gaub, Braswell and Deputy Communications Director Dandria Bradley and editing by Braswell, Ward and Cable Access Technician Barry Martin; and for the public service announcement campaign “COVID Stops With Me,” which was produced in partnership between the Gaston County Communications Office and Haven Creative. The commercials were utilized on over the top television, online video pre-roll, mobile box trucks in the community and on social media, and featured a diverse group of community leaders, including Gaston County DHHS Medical Director Dr. Tia Robertson, Gastonia Mayor Walker Reid, Physician Dr. Jamie Villareal and African-American Museum of History & Culture Curator Dot Guthrie.
Gaston County won second place in the audio category for its weekly podcast, Savvy Citizen. The podcast is the brainchild of the Communications Office and the Budget & Strategy Office in Gaston County, and began in the fall of 2020. New episodes publish every Monday.
The purpose of North Carolina City & County Communicators is to encourage professional development and networking among local governmental communications professionals. The organization is celebrating 15 years of its founding in March 2007 and consists of professional government communicators from around the state. For more information about NC3C, visit www.nc3c.com.
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Source: County of Gaston
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