The Norwood News will be among those honored next month at two journalism awards contests, adding to the growing number of honors the Bronx paper has received over the last few weeks.

Nice news for me: Happy to be a finalist for the @deadlineclub annual awards for my series dubbed “Housing Matters”. Beyond happy standing in the company of talented journalists, particularly @TomZambito and @AsburyParkPress. Congrats everyone! pic.twitter.com/etNZbzcELz

— David Cruz (@CWEBCRUZER) April 8, 2019

Editor-in-Chief David Cruz is being honored by both the Deadline Club and the Society of the Silurians for his work on a three-part series dubbed “Housing Matters”, which looked at the complexities of affordable housing in New York City. Cruz is a Finalist for the Deadline Club, the New York City Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists, under the category of Reporting by a Newspaper with a Circulation Under 100,000 (Norwood News’ circulation is currently 15,000). For the Society of the Silurians, Cruz is slated to pick up a Merit Award under the Investigative Reporting category.

“I’m extremely honored for this recognition by two fantastic organizations that promote outstanding journalism,” said Cruz, who’s been with the newspaper since December 2013. “This is the first in the history of the newspaper to earn these honors by the Deadline Club and the Society of the Silurians.”

“Housing Matters” was published in March 2018, touching on issues including segregation in New York City, school segregation, and the community preference policy behind the backdrop of the Jerome Avenue Rezoning.

The recognition comes on the heels of the Bronx newspaper winning eight awards at the New York Press Association for work the paper produced in 2018.