Former Butler Eagle photographer Morgan Phillips was honored as one of two inaugural recipients of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation’s Newspaper Hero of the Year award on Thursday, Sept. 25, at the its advertising conference in State College.

The award recognized how Phillips continued to stand and take historic photographs while gunshots rang out at the Butler Farm Show grounds where then-candidate President Donald Trump was campaigning on July 13, 2024. The assassination attempt resulted in the death of Butler County resident Corey Comperatore and the serious injury of two other spectators.

“Morgan is passionate in her belief that community journalists are vital to democracy and at that critical moment she chose to step up and continue to do her job,” said Donna Sybert,

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