The San Antonio Report staff was recently honored by the Texas Managing Editors for producing some of the best work in the state in 2025 by newsrooms of our size.
Andrea Drusch and Xochilt Garcia won the 2A Star Online Package of the Year award for our newsroom’s 2025 city election Voter Guide.
The guide helped voters make sense of San Antonio’s first open mayoral election in 16 years, where a whopping 27 candidates threw their hats in the ring to replace the outgoing mayor, plus 59 candidates ran for 10 City Council seats, all of which were up for grabs on Saturday, May 3 — smack-dab in the middle of San Antonio’s annual Fiesta celebration.
At the same time, a number of Bexar County municipalities held their own elections, plus bond and school board elections in several districts. As part of its 2025 election coverage, the San Antonio Report hosted nine debates in 44 days, journalistically rigorous examinations of the candidates seeking to lead the city on the dais.
The TME judges said: “The scope of the election required extraordinary effort from the small reporting team.”
The San Antonio Report competed in the Texas Managing Editors’ 2A award category, for similar-sized newsrooms across Texas.
See the award-winning 2025 Voter Guide here.
Other honorees:
- 2nd Place, Feature Writing: Ken Rodriguez — Meet Blanca Aldaco. She went from a minimum-wage worker and immigrant to an award-winning Texas restaurateur.
- 2nd Place, Deadline Writing: Ken Rodriguez and Diego Medel — San Antonians react to killing of Las Palapas founder Ron Acosta
- 3rd Place, Star Reporter of the Year: Andrea Drusch, for her coverage of the 2025 city elections
- 3rd Place, Business Reporting: Jasper Sundeen, Who is going to benefit?’: Inside the economic analysis of a downtown Spurs arena
- Honorable Mention, Star Investigative Report of the Year: Diego Medel — As state hospital waitlists grow, Bexar County Jail fills the gap in mental health treatment
- Honorable Mention, Business Reporting: Ken Rodriguez — Companies are removing artificial dyes from their products. What about San Antonio favorite Big Red?
- Honorable Mention, News Photography: Diego Medel, for this shot of Project Marvel protesters
