APSE Awards

The Indy Star and Patriot-News also just missed triple crowns, with the Pat-News playing up as well. My paper, the Tulsa World, ended up with an honorable mention for Sunday and top 10 for daily.

 

Big ups to Jason Wolfe, the handsomest guy I know in the business.

 

The National (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) ... umm, what?

 

APSE decided to outsource some of its work.

 

Probably one of the best papers on the planet. Many of its editors are Americans or Brits. I think the sports editor is from the AJC.
Most important, Chuck Culpepper is its lead columnist. He's currently in China, covering the Volvo Ocean Race (around the world yacht sailing, used to be called the Whitbread Round the World Race). I think they've had him at most if not all the ports in the last few months. Spain, Cape Town, etc. It's pretty much a journalist's dream, and any newspaper that still spends that kind of money should be appreciated.

 

Also, Chuck's series with Manny Pacquiao -- a week in the Philippines -- was just fantastic. If it was entered for an award, I can't imagine it not winning.
http://mannypacquiao.thenational.ae/

(Remember back in the olden days when newspapers used to do this great stuff?)

 

I never realized (or even considered) the APSEs were open to foreign newspapers.

 

I didn't either. But now we know. Watch for The Sun to clean up next year.

 

Oh, so fuck North Korea then?

 

Features, 75,001-175,000

Top 10:
Tommy Tomlinson, Charlotte (N.C.) Observer
Michael Arace, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Tommy Birch, Des Moines (Iowa) Register
Dom Amore, Hartford (Conn.) Courant
Andrew Gribble, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel
Will C. Holden, Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise
Mirjam Swanson, Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise
Ryan Divish, Tacoma News Tribune
Jimmie Tramel, Tulsa (Okla.) World
Ed Miller, Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)

 

Was about to mention him. And as good as he is, there's plenty of comparable talent around him there. Top-notch paper.