Tribune journalists win APSE honors for coverage, photography
South Bend Tribune journalists Mike Berardino, Tom Noie and Michael Clubb recently won APSE honors for their work in 2025.
South Bend Tribune sports journalists Mike Berardino and Tom Noie took home top honors from the Associated Press of Sports Editors for their work covering the domestic terrorist attack on New Years Day 2025 in New Orleans, while staff photographer Michael Clubb won honors for best action photo. Berardino and Noie won the Division C event coverage category , as announced by the APSE Thursday, May 7. Division C covers smaller to mid-sized papers that are part of the organization.
They received five of the six first-place votes in the category. Clubb won the Division C Action Photo category , which was announced Wednesday, May 13. Berardino, Noie honored for coverage of tragedy Berardino and Noie were in New Orleans ahead of Notre Dame’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal game against Georgia.
The game was scheduled to be played on New Years Day, but tragedy struck overnight when a man drove his car into the heart of Bourbon Street. Fifteen people were killed and 57 injured in the mass casualty event. The act was later deemed a domestic terrorist attack.
Both Noie and Berardino were quick to act with their coverage. Noie wrote an instant column from his hotel after waking up and realizing what had happened. Berardino went to the scheduled Mass before the game and captured compelling videos and stories from the event .