Scott Fowler, Jeff Siner, Davin Coburn and Rachel Wise of the Charlotte Observer won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2018 contest in Multimedia for the B Division.
They beat runner-up Larry Graham of The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) in the final voting. Tom Kreager, Michael Murphy, Andrew Nelles and Autumn Allison of The Tennessean finished third.
Sports editors in the B Division submitted 28 multimedia entries. The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Todd M. Adams and fellow APSE officers John Bednarowski, Lisa Wilson and Dan Spears prepared entries, which included online links to stories for the first time this year.
In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a set of finalists, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 separately on a secret ballot. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second, etc. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion.
The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The Observer team will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2019 APSE Summer Conference Banquet at the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta on June 19. The second through fifth place writers will receive frameable certificates.
For this contest, multimedia included interactive graphics and slideshows, a combination of those items, or any other produced product that falls under the description of multimedia (other than simple videos). Entries were judged on strength of storytelling, with visual and auditory quality considered. Up to five pieces in a series on the same topic could be considered one single entry.
The top 10 is listed below with links to the winning entries.
- Scott Fowler, Jeff Siner, Davin Coburn, Rachel Wise, Charlotte Observer, 60 points, six first-place votes
2. Larry Graham, The Blade (Toledo, Ohio), 51 points
3. Tom Kreager, Michael Murphy, Andrew Nelles and Autumn Allison, The Tennessean (Nashville) 1 2 3 4 5, 45 points
4. Staff, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 33 points
5. Molly Quinn, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.), 30 points
T-6. Christa Lemczak and Mike Waters, Syracuse.com/The Post-Standard, 28 points
T-6. Nolan Weidner and Charlie Miller, Syracuse.com/The Post-Standard, 28 points
8. Lindsey Smith, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.), 27 points
9. Mike Organ, Autumn Allison, Ricky Rogers, The Tennessean (Nashville), 16 points
10. Jonathan Heeter, Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), 12 points
