APSE results

Daily section results:

100,000-250,000

TOP 10:
Buffalo News
Charlotte Observer
Detroit News
Indianapolis Star
Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.
Los Angeles Daily News
Omaha World Herald
Palm Beach Post
Seattle Times
Tacoma News Tribune
HONORABLE MENTION:
Columbus Dispatch
Contra Costa Times
Des Moines Register
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Oklahoman
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Record, Hackensack, N.J.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Salt Lake Tribune

40,000-100,000

TOP 10:
Ann Arbor News
Arizona Daily Star
Canton (Ohio) Repository
Colorado Springs Gazette
Columbia (S.C.) State
Forum of Fargo-Moorhead (N.D.)
Lincoln Journal Star
Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Newport News (Va.) Daily Press
Wichita Eagle
HONORABLE MENTION:
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate
Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer
Idaho Statesman
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger
North County (Calif.) Times
Portland (Maine) Press Herald
Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat
Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

UNDER 40,000
TOP 10:
Beaver County (Pa.) Times
Bellingham (Wash.) Herald
Bloomsburg (Pa.) Press Enterprise
Boulder (Colo.) Camera
Glens Falls (N.Y.) Post-Star
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World
Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Ill.
Sauk Valley Newspapers, Sterling, Ill.
Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen
Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic
HONORABLE MENTION:
Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald
Hilton Head (S.C.) Island Packet
Idaho State Journal
Provo Daily Herald
Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot
Longmont (Colo.) Times-Call
Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal
New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times
Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel
Casper (Wyom.) Star-Tribune

UNDER 20,000

TOP 10:
Hilton Head (S.C.) Island Packet
Idaho State Journal
Independence (Mo.) Examiner
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World
Naperville (Ill.) Sun
Sauk Valley Newspapers, Sterling, Ill.
Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen
Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Southeast Missourian

 

Well Poz did not win explanatory, so the ever-illusive quintuple-crown of sports writing goes un-achieved yet again.

 

YAHTZEE!

 

Big ol' thumbs-up on daily section to Toby Carrig, who put together our football-tab exchange here. Great to see.

 

Wow. Our paper got a Triple Crown. That's nice.

 

Add my congrats to your list, Barsuk!

 

Congrats to shotglass and Barsuk!

Also, a shoutout to the folks at the Buffalo News. Ox is smiling tonight.

 

Anyone check out the photos on the APSE Web site's convention link?? (I stand by my contention that a lot of donuts are going down at that venue!!

Hey, anyone ever acquaint any of those guys with, um, a treadmill?

 

Typo on an earlier post. The Charlotte Observer couldn't possibly have been named a top 10 section.

 

My former rag adds to its run of APSEs with a Top 10 Sunday. NICE.

rb

 

That's pretty shitty.

People may not be bitter. Frustrated, yes, but bitter?
Many of those are butt-busting people who do their damndest to compete for national acclaim. My department and paper is very much among those. My first year there, we won ah honorable mention for project reporting from a guy who really didn't write well but through the editing efforts of myself and another person in the newsroom, we made it into a really good story, and by damn it got recognized. It was a story on Tommy John injuries and he went to great efforts to quote Dr. Jobe and major league players as well as little guys. Weird it was that the story didn't get any other recognition and honestly, I thought it was good but there have been far better pieces of work that have gone out from better writers who felt they did a great job on it. And I can attest to that. Those pieces required very little editing!

I suppose by winning one so unexpectedly so early in my time where I'm at, we thought others would be reachable, even as we believe the product has improved. But that hasn't happened. We did a story very similar to one Gannett gave a "Best of Gannett" award a year after our submission. Same graphics, ironically. Similarly designed package, But one was the Detroit paper and the other was a little guy. Hey, teams have high expectations, produce good efforts, and still lose. It's part of life. But it's frustrating, especially as you watch your resources get cut and you realize you're working twice as hard on the stuff you're producing now as compared to 10 years ago, or for that matter, even three years ago. With the most recent cuts, if we don't drop to the lowest group, I know we don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything. So I can empathize with printdust and those other "bitter" people. More and more, it just doesn't seem to be an even playing field. That's no one's fault, it's just reality, but it hurts.

 

atta kid, shots. you, too, rick alvord.