APSE Awards

Figure I'll go ahead and start this.

Multimedia under 2 million
Top 10:
Buffalo News
Des Moines Register
Columbia Missourian
Knoxville News Sentinel
Knoxville News Sentinel
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, Ill.)
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, Ill.)
Omaha World-Herald
Omaha World-Herald
The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.)

Honorable mention:
Naples (Fla.) Daily News
Scranton (Pa.) Times
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News

Multimedia over 2 million
Top 10:
Boston Globe
Kansas City Star
Los Angeles Times
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
The New York Times
The New York Times
The Oklahoman (Okahoma City)
Philly.com
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)

Honorable mention:
Chicago Tribune
Indianapolis Star
Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel
South Florida Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Tampa Bay Times

 

Post-Dispatch? Say wha?

 

For the first time in 15 years, I have no vested interest in big boy circ contest results. Happy to be in the online world, but I looked forward to judgment day.

 

APSE site is posting results. SF's grabbing them.

 

Well, just so everybody's on this train.

I posted the first ones because I saw them, and if I see any more in next few hours, I can do that too. I have some divisions I'm personally interested in, so will be looking.

But I'm also off on Tuesday, so I suggest anybody who comes across results posts them here, checking to make sure somebody else didn't already do it.

That's my thinking.

(If there's any question, I am NOT in Orlando and NOT at the judging.)

 

Special sections, over 175,000

Top 10:
Boston Globe
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Dallas Morning News
The Denver Post
Kansas City Star
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
The New York Times
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Seattle Times

Honorable mention:
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Chicago Tribune
Detroit Free Press
Miami Herald
Newark Star-Ledger
Newsday (Melville, N.Y.)
Philadelphia Daily News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
San Francisco Chronicle
Tampa Bay Times/St. Petersburg Times

 

SPECIAL SECTION, 75,001-175,000

Top 10:
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
Birmingham (Ala.) News
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.)
Des Moines Register
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The Oklahoman
Omaha World-Herald
The Patriot News (Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.)
The State (Columbia, S.C.)

Honorable mention:
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)
Cincinnati Enquirer
Columbus Dispatch
Detroit News
The Indianapolis Star
Lexington Herald-Leader
Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register
Roanoke (Va.) Times
Scripps Treasure Coast (Stuart, Fla.)
Tampa Tribune

SPECIAL SECTION, 30,000-175,000
Top 10:
Altoona (Pa.) Mirror
Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star
The National (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Peoria (Ill.) Journal
Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.)
The Post-Star (Glens Falls, N.Y.)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Ore.)
The Repository (Canton, Ohio)

Honorable mention:
Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier
Colorado Springs Gazette
Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Va.)
Gainesville (Fla.) Sun
Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette
Huntsville (Ala.) Times
Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho)
The News-Gazette (Champaign, Ill.)
Pensacola (Fla.) News-Journal
Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.)

SUNDAY SECTION, UNDER 30,000
Top 10:
The Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise
Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune
Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio)
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World
Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel
Sauk Valley Media (Sterling, Ill.)
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
Winona (Minn.) Daily News
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic

Honorable mention:
Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald
The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald
Boulder (Colo.) Camera
The Herald-Times (Bloomington, Ind.)
The Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.)
The Kitsap Sun (Bremerton, Wash.)
Mail Tribune (Medford, Ore.)
The Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.)
The Star Press (Muncie, Ind.)
Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, Mo.

SUNDAY SECTION, UNDER 15,000
Top 5:
Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle
Opelika-Auburn (Ala.) News
Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, Mo.)
Winona (Minn.) Daily News
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, Wyo.)

 

Good to see 1HP continue to play up. Wish others would.
Special sections: No Orlando. No Palm Beach Post. No Sun Sentinel. Heaven forbid, does this mean the end of the vaunted football tabs? One can only hope. Was never a fan, even though I sat in on four years' of planning meetings and suggested one of the themes. They're all forced. Forced headlines, forced photo shoots, forced nonsense. OK, back to the contest.

 

Noticed the APSE site was really slow, I managed to get through, so I thought I'd help out:

Special Section, under 30,000 circulation.
Top 10:
The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald
The Citizen’s Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
The Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio)
Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle
Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald
Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot
Killeen (Texas) Daily Herald
Sauk Valley Media (Sterling, Ill.)
Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic

Honorable mention:
Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Ill.)
Decatur (Ala.) Daily
Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle-Telegram
The Island Packet (Hilton Head, S.C.)
Kerrville (Texas) Daily Times
Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World
Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal
Muscatine (Iowa) Journal
Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel
Southeast Missoulian (Cape Girardeau, Mo.)

 

Well, that's contest related.

I participated in many, many special sections over the years. I can't remember the last mega-section I read the whole thing.

 

I've always thought the best sections were "event" sections (even though I won a Top 10 for a legend's retirement section. ... Hell, we should have. I/we spent 3 months working on it.).
But I hated those football tabs. I hated doing them. I hated planning for them ... in March. I hated setting up the contrived cover photos for them. I hated reading 175 headlines with some play on the main theme. I hated everything about them.