Award for Responsible Journalism goes 2 @kghealth and @KatieSchoolov for their powerful “right to die” story. @sdspj pic.twitter.com/fGZQAlS530

— Suzanne Marmion (@suzannemarmion) July 22, 2016

Congratulations to all the winners at Thursday’s 2016 SPJ San Diego Area Journalism Awards Contest.

The full list of winners can be found here.

Journalists from news outlets throughout the region came to celebrate at the annual awards banquet. They recognized each other’s work and lauded the 2016 San Diego Journalist of the Year, Voice of San Diego’s Mario Koran.

Koran was chosen both for breaking one of the biggest stories of the year that helped lead to a school board trustee’s resignation and for his comprehensive coverage of San Diego’s education that aims to fill readers’ needs.

The banquet was held in a new location this year, the Kona Kai Resort & Spa. Bottles of hand sanitizer — a joke about last year’s banquet — decorated each table.

The board also thanked and congratulated its outgoing president Matthew Hall, who served two terms. It welcomed its new officers Claire Trageser, the president; Lisa Halverstadt, the vice president; Elliot Spagat, the secretary; and Andrew Kleske, the treasurer; and new board members Jennifer McEntee and Kelly Davis.

Best socks ever. Thank you, @sdspj. Loved every minute of it. Proud of all we did as a group the past two years. pic.twitter.com/sXn8fVx3Hl

— Matthew T. Hall (@SDuncovered) July 22, 2016