BY TODD M. ADAMS, APSE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
A staff entry by The New York Times has won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors’ 2018 contest in multimedia for the A Division.
The Times 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 Times edged runner-up Lauren Frohne, Emily M. Eng and Thomas Wilburn from The Seattle Times. Alex Speier, Michael Workman, Kevin Wall, Taylor de Lench and Brendan Lynch from The Boston Globe and Bill Barnwell from espn.com tied for third.
Sports editors in the A Division submitted 38 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. In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a top 10, 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 and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. 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 winner in each category will receive a plaque at the summer conference. The second- through 10th-place writers will receive frameable certificates.
Multimedia entries could include interactive graphics, audio, slideshows or combinations thereof, or anything else that falls under the broad description of multimedia other than simple videos. Entries were judged, foremost, on the strength of storytelling. Visual and auditory quality was considered.
The top 10 is listed below with links to the winning entries:
1. Staff, The New York Times, 52 points, 3 first-place votes
2. Lauren Frohne, Emily M. Eng and Thomas Wilburn, The Seattle Times, 40 points, 1 first-place vote
T3. Bill Barnwell, ESPN.com, 36 points, 1 first-place vote
T3. Alex Speier, Michael Workman, Kevin Wall, Taylor de Lench and Brendan Lynch, The Boston Globe, 36 points
5. Staff, ESPN.com, 33 points
6. Sarah Larimer and Jorge Ribas, The Washington Post, 32 points,
7. Joe Fox, Los Angeles Times, 30 points, 1 first-place vote
8. Chad Finn, Gary Dzen, Irfan Uraizee, Taylor de Lench and Brendan Lynch, The Boston Globe, 26 points
9. Dave Sheinin, Aaron Dana, Kagan McLeod and Joe Moore, The Washington Post, 24 points
10. Maria Torres and Jason Boatright, The Kansas City Star, 21 points
