Awards - 270 Media LLC

270 media Awards

Award-Winning Journalism, Content & Design

2025 AWARDS

SF Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards

Cover Design

First Place: Eric Zener, Mimi Towle, “Cover Design Flip Book”

Subject

First Place: Christina Mueller, Mimi Towle, “Sustainable Packaging”
Third Place: Jennifer Gennari, Mimi Towle, “Marin’s Shifting Shoreline: The conversation has started and your voice matters”

Columns-Features

Third Place: Lotus Abrams, “Marin Home Series”

Feature Layout Design

First Place: Zack Ruskin, Mimi Towle, “An Insider’s Guide to San Francisco Crosstown Trails”

Feature Story / Light Subject

First Place: Jennifer Gennari, Catherine Lyons-Labate, Mimi Towle, “Wild and Free: Where the Waterfront Children Are”

Feature Story / Serious Subject

Second Place: Kirsten Neff, Mimi Towle, “The Trajectory of their Lives”

Headline

First Place: Matt Villano, Mimi Towle, “The Right Place for the Right Mind”
Second Place: Jonah Steinhart, Mimi Towle, “A Safe Place to Sleep”

Photography / Photo Series

Second Place: Lotus Abrams, R. Brad Knipstein, “In the Round”
Third Place: Lotus Abrams, Joe Fletcher, “Shifting the View”

Series or Continuing Coverage

First Place: Christina Mueller, Mimi Towle, “Sustainable Packaging”

TV APPEARANCES

California Live

We recently were guests on NBC’s California Live recommending the best places to take your dog, cat or rabbit in Sonoma!

2024 SF Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards

We were honored to win in the following categories at the 47th San Francisco Press Club Awards:

Cover Design

First Place: Ryan Taylor, Lisa Hilgers, “Local Getaways Flipbook”

Entertainment Review

First Place: Mimi Pinson, Kasia Pawlowska, “Marin Resident Writes Biography of a Friend in Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography”

Environment

First Place: Alison Loomis, Mimi Towle, Kasia Pawlowska,
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Salmon”

Feature Layout Design

First Place: Bob Minikin, Lisa Hilgers,
“Just Bobby”
Third Place: Lisa Hilgers, “Foundations of the Past: Tracing the Roots of Marin County’s oldest houses”

Photography / Photo Series

First Place: Jay Tamang, Lisa Hilgers, Mimi Pinson,
“Natural Phenomena”
Third Place: Bryan McDonald, Lisa Hilgers, “Wind Powered: San Francisco Bay, the World’s Favorite Place to Sail?”

Series or Continuing Coverage

Second Place: Kirsten Jones Neff, Mimi Towle, Kasia Pawlowska, “Addressing Homelessness in Marin”

PREVIOUS YEARS

SF Press Club Award for Cover Design, First Place: Ryan Taylor, Lisa Hilgers, “Local Getaways Flipbook”, 2024
SF Press Club Award for Entertainment Review First Place: Mimi Pinson, Kasia Pawlowska, “Marin Resident Writes Biography of a Friend in Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography”, 2024
SF Press Club Award for Environment First Place: Alison Loomis, Mimi Towle, Kasia Pawlowska, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Salmon”
SF Press Club Award for Feature Layout Design First Place: Bob Minikin, Lisa Hilgers, 2024
“Just Bobby”, Third Place: Lisa Hilgers, “Foundations of the Past: Tracing the Roots of Marin County’s oldest houses”, 2024
SF Press Club Award for Photography / Photo Series First Place: Jay Tamang, Lisa Hilgers, Mimi Pinson, “Natural Phenomena”, Third Place, Bryan McDonald, Lisa Hilgers, “Wind Powered: San Francisco Bay, the World’s Favorite Place to Sail?”, 2024

SF Press Club Award forSeries or Continuing Coverage, Second Place: Kirsten Jones Neff, Mimi Towle, Kasia Pawlowska, “Addressing Homelessness in Marin”, 2024
SF Press Club Award for Feature Layout Design, First Place, “Stones Unturned”, Local Getaways, 2023
SF Press Club Award for Profile, Third Place: “King of the Road: Bay Area Backroads’ Doug McConnell, 2022
SF Press Club Award for Environment/Nature Report, Third Place, “Thar She Blows”, Local Getaways, 2022

SF Press Club Award for Feature Story, Second Place: “Surfing Is More Popular Than Ever: And Now, California’s State Sport Is Going to the Olympics”, 2022
SF Press Club Award for Feature Story, Second Place, “When the Headlands Had Warheads: Reconciling Marin’s Nuclear Past While Looking to the Future”, 2022
SF Press Club Award for Feature Story, Second Place, “Remembering Running Fence” – October 2022
SF Press Club Award for Feature Story “Surfing Is More Popular than Ever” – June 2021
SF Press Club Award for Feature Story “When the Headlands had Warheads” – September 2021
CRMA National City & Regional Magazine Award, Finalist Ancillary: Home/Shelter, Marin Magazine & Spaces, 2019
Folio Eddie Award for Overall Editorial Excellence – 2018/2019
Folio Eddie Award for Illustration for “Lust for Like” February 2018
Folio Eddie Honorable Mention for General Excellence – November 2018
Folio Eddie Honorable Mention for Essays & Criticism for “Canal Street” March 2018
Maggie Awards, Best Single Editorial Illustration Trade & Consumer, “High Anxiety”, December 2016
Maggie Awards, City & Metropolitan Consumer, June 2015
Maggie Awards, Eight Souls Aboard, October 2013