David Woronoff

north carolina press association  |  supporting the public's right to know since 1873 Posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 9:00 pm 2025 NCPA Editorial and Advertising Awards Contact: Philip Lucey, NCPA Executive Director, phil@ncpress.com For Immediate Release Thursday, September 18, 2025 (Cary, NC) North Carolina Press Association members were honored for excellence in news, photojournalism, and advertising coverage during the 152nd annual convention held in Cary on September 18th.

If your core purpose is to serve your community, you can't do that very well if the only product you have is a newspaper. According to the old expression, 'If the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.' When your only tool is a newspaper, the answer to all your community’s information and marketing needs will just be a newspaper.” In the current news industry environment, legacy newspapers face two future scenarios.

In your hands, you’re holding the eighth edition of The Pilot’s Open Daily — the world’s only “pop-up” newspaper devoted exclusively to the U.S. Open and Women’s Open. We crank up this endeavor every few years whenever the USGA, the Sandhills’ newest corporate citizen, brings its Open and Women’s Open championships to town. That makes your ink-stained staffers here on West Pennsylvania Avenue smart enough to create such an audacious product or dumb enough to try. More likely, it’s both.