APSE judging thread

[luckyducky]

A joke could be made about the APSE judges missing deadline, but I'm above such a mean-spirited jab.

You might be the only one.

 

[alanpagerules]

I wonder how different the writing contest results would be if writers judged them instead of editors.

I wonder how different the writing contest results would be if writers judged them instead of editors.

I wonder how different the writing contest results would be if readers judged them instead of editors.

Yeah, that would be a great idea.

Fail to mention someone's freshman son who scored a touchdown when his team was already ahead 58-7 in the fourth quarter? Terrible story. Out of consideration.

Story about State U boosters paying recruits under the table that made national news and got State U on probation? Terrible story. You should be supporting the school, not tearing it down. Out of consideration.

Dig up coach's unseemly past, which included arrests for solicitation and drug use? Who do you think you are? Bob Woodward? This is sports writing. You should be writing positive stories and accepting the access that Coach Whoremonger grants you and like it. Out of consideration.

Yeah. Let's have the readers judge. That would work out tremendously.

It's called the Associated Press Sports Editors. Let them get their own damn awards.

 

[Moderator1]

From the pipeline:

UNDER 40K SPECIAL SECTIONS

TOP 10
Altoona Mirror
Athens Banner-Herald
Bellingham Herald
Provo Daily Herald
Wooster Daily Herald
Northwest Herald
Redding Record-Searchlight
San Angelo
Santa Fe
Yakima

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Brownsville, Texas
Island Packet (Hilton Head)
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Tucson Citizen

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40-100 SPECIAL SECTIONS

TOP 10
Augusta Chronicle
Beaver County Times
Champaign News-Gazette
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer
Fort Myers
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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Lincoln Journal Star
Mobile Press-Register
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HM
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Gainesville
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Naples
Palm Springs Desert-Sun
Stocton Record
Wichita Eagle
Wolloughby News-Herald

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Charlotte Observer
Columbus Dispatch
Detroit News
Hartford Courant
Palm Beach Post
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Raleigh News & Observer
Riverside Press-Enterprise
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Seattle Times

HM
Arlington, Ill.
Bergen Record
Cincinnati Enquirer
Florida Times-Union
San Antonio Express-News
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Tampa Tribune
Tulsa World
White Plains Journal-News

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100-250 SPECIAL

TOP 10
Cincinnati Enquirer
Columbus Dispatch
Hartford Courant
Lexington Herald-Leader
Louisville
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Seattle P-I
The State
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HM
Austin
Buffalo News
Charlotte Observer
LA Daily News
The Oklahoman
Omaha World-Herald
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Sarasota
Seattle Times
Tacoma

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BONUS UNPOSTED SECTION RESULTS (OFFICIAL)

+250 SPECIAL SECTIONS

TOP 10
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Kansas City Star
Dallas Morning News
Orlando Sentinel
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Washington Post
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L.A. Times
Newsday

 

[Pringle]

We spend the whole year writing about others winning and losing all year long, documenting other people's triumphs while we are just on the outside of life and looking in (or so it feels a lot of the time).

APSE gives me the opportunity to put myself on the line the same way those athletes do. Even in defeat, it's cathartic. I see nothing wrong with it. As long as I don't become obsessed with it and base my self-worth on the results, as I used to do, I think it's a good thing.

 

[shockey]

i want to thank everyone for helping to soften my objection to the apse's. i still think they suck, mind you. but my perspective is a jaded one, i admit, since the only two papers i've worked for are in the 250,000-plus category. i've been incredibly blessed. i didn't need awards to "climb the ladder." so many of my equally-talented colleagues have found that awards can help their climb. i can't argue that.

so thanks for giving me that perspective, brothers and sisters.

 

[DrRosenpenis]

Anyone have an idea as to when the next batch of awards will be released?

 

[JRoyal]

Here's one thing APSE's can do that might not have been mentioned either: soften up the higher-ups. Sure, it's better to be able to show you're raising reader interest because this is a business, and that makes money. But if you want to fly someone out to an event you don't normally cover or do something unusual for a section, some editors and publishers find it easier to trust a writer or an editor who has a few awards hanging on their wall. In an ideal world, you could put together a section that wins over readers and pulls in awards, though.

 

[JRoyal]

Oh, and by the way, congratulations to all the winners posted above. I've seen some of the work from a lot of the bigger papers, and it's outstanding. And to get recognition in the smaller circulations, I'm sure they have to be putting out some good stuff. Congrats.

 

[Pringle]

I like the idea of putting winners up on the APSE site (and here) as they are named. I understand the desire, in the past, to release it all at once. But it kind of had a feel to it like everyone was being tortured just for the sake of being tortured. Accidentally sadistic of the APSE judges.

I see no harm in letting it trickle out.

Plus, in the past, people with SEs at the contest would get the results via phone leakage anyway, while the rest of us schmucks had to sit and wait for the wire to carry it. Didn't feel fair.

 

[friend of a friend]

Four section categories are completed.
We'll post those in the a.m.
Check out the apse website for that.
We still have no writing awards totally finished.
Just some preliminary stuff.
Sorry about the delay.

I hope you're not wearing a hoodie

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Nah. It would cover up Lynn's famous hair.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

Have you walked through any event press room lately? Guys dress like homeless dolts there, too.

Let's just say, some of our brethren are are simply cluless about attire.

i bet you look great in your dockers