Daryn Slover of the Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine) took first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2015 contest in the Under 30,000 long video category.
Slover won for his video on the Tough Mountain Challenge — a race with a series of obstacle courses and rugged terrain. He will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2016 APSE banquet. The banquet and awards dinner concludes the APSE Conference June 22-25 at the Omni-Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C.
Danielle Guerra of the Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, Ill.) placed second. Sean Shore and Joey Chandler of The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News placed third.
Sports editors in the Under-30,000 category submitted 14 entries. The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Tommy Deas numbered each entry, assuring they had been stripped of headlines, graphics, bylines and any other element that would identify the writer or news organization.
In late February and early March, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., selected a top 3, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 3 separately on a secret ballot. Entries were given three points for a first-place vote, two points for second and one point for a 3rd-place vote. The final 3 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-3 in the same fashion. The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The Long Video category judges a collection of videos that sheds new light on events and issues in the news, including trends and original ideas.
The top 3 is listed below with links to writers’ Twitter pages, APSE member websites and winning entries.
- Daryn Slover, Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine), 13 points
- Danielle Guerra, Daily Chronicle (Dekalb, Ill.), 10 points
Learning the rules of 1840s and 1850s baseball
- Sean Shore and Joey Chandler, The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News, 7 points.
