APSE Awards

Preach on, brother HP.

 

Speaking of circ sizes, I've always thought the contest would be fairer if graded by FTEs in the department.
Readership doesn't matter. How many horses you can throw at a project/section matters.
I'd go four classes: 1-4, 5-10, 11-15, 16-above. Maybe 11-19 and 20-above for the final two, but staffs aren't what they were even 5 years ago.

 

Yeah, and then some bonehead sports editor would lay off a desker or two so he could bump down a class and clean up. "Hey, I'd like to keep you, but I think we can be Triple Crown in Class 2. You can get some boxes from Security."

 

Projects, Under 30,000

Eric Harding, Marisa Jensen, Eric Smith, Alan Hendry, Jay Heater, Jason Gonzalez and Darren Vaughn, Antelope Valley Press (Palmdale, Calif.)
Christopher Dabe and Jared Ainsworth, Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise
John Sahly, Ryan Wood, Steve Nitz, Anthony Zilis, Jake Dugger and James Nokes, Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Ill.)
Sam McDowell and Jeff Kidd, Island Packett (Hilton Head, S.C.)
Alex Byington, Kevin Posibal and Angel Verdejo, Killeen (Texas) Daily Herald
Dave Allen, Theo Fightmaster and Jessica Bernstein-Wax, Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal
Andrew Wagamon, Missourian (Columbia, Mo.)
Chase Goodbread, Aaron Suttles, Cecil Hurt, Tommy Deas, Andrew Carroll and Alex Scarborough, Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
Ian St. Clair, Wyoming Tribune Eagle (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
Scott Sansberry, Yakima (Wash.) Herald Republic

Projects, 75,000-175,000

Todd Jones, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Kyle Veazey, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
Dan Coble, Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Fla.)
Dirk Chatelain, Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald
Matt Porter, Jeff Greer Joel Engelhardt and Charles Elmore, The Palm Beach Post
Dave Ammenheuser, Gregg Patton, Jim Alexander, Mirjam Swanson, Eric-Paul Johnson, John Murphy, Will C. Holden and Allan Steele, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.)
Cary Aspinwall and Guerin Emig Tulsa (Okla.) World
Michael C. Lewis, Kurt Kragthorpe, Brian Maffly, Gordon Monson and Bill Oram, The Salt Lake Tribune
Tim Griffin, Doug Pils and Brent Zwerneman, San Antiono Express-News
Rich Radford, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)

Features, 30,000-75,000

Mick Garry, Argus Leader, (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
Tim Hayes, Bristol Herald Courier (Bristol, Va.)
Paul Klee, Champaigne (Ill.) News-Gazette
Patrick Obley, Charlotte (Fla.) Sun
Dan Wiederer, Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer
Annabelle Tometich, Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press
Lisa Coffey, Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger
Corey Clark, Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat
Jim Lamar, Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat
Matt Calkins, Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian

Special Section Under 15,000 is up too, but the site slowed to a stop just as I tried to grab it.

 

Special section, under 15,000

Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Ill.)
Denton (Texas) Record-Chronical)
Index Journal (Greenwood, S.C.)
Kerrville (Texas) Daily Times
The Medina (Ohio) Gazette
Muscatine (Iowa) Journal
News & Messenger (Manassas, Va.)
Opelika-Auburn (Ala.) News
Southeast Missourian (Cape Girardeau, Mo.)

 

I think the shrinking circulations are depressing enough, but to classify newspapers by full-timers would be rough. In five years: "And in the 10 and higher group ... hold on, OK, so we'll skip honorable mention there."

 

For some reason, they've pulled the individual awards off their website for now. Don't know what that means ...

 

Speaking of skipping honorable mention, what was up with the online awards? 3 HMs? 5 HMs? Did that few enter?
In that case, gotta go Top 5 and HM, no? Make the award mean something.

 

I thought the same thing. I saw one paper that used to be just under 100K in circulation competing in the under 30K category...

 

Sunday 175K-Above:
Top 10:
Arizona Republic
Boston Globe
The Denver Post
Detroit Free Press
Kansas City Star
Los Angeles Times
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Newark Star-Ledger
New York Daily News
The New York Times

Honorable mention:
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
The Dallas Morning News
Houston Chronicle
Miami Herald
Newsday (Melville, N.Y.)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington Post

 

Daily, 75,001-175,000


Top 10:
The Buffalo News
The Charlotte Observer
Columbus Dispatch
Des Moines Register
The Indianapolis Star
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald
Salt Lake Tribune
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Tulsa (Okla.) World

Honorable mention:
Detroit News
Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel
The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
The Patriot News (Mechanicsburg, Pa.)
The Record (Woodland Park, N.J.)
Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch
San Antonio Express-News
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Tampa Tribune
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.)

 

I take zero joy in noting this, but the Tribune's Florida papers (Orlando, South Florida) and the PB Post are not having a typical year.

In a way, this isn't necessarily a major negative for the Tribune papers, unless you're a print reader. They've put a lot of resources into online, admittedly forsaking print to some extent. It's why I only get a Sunday paper right now, and it's by design.

But still ...