LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Results from 2012 APSE contest judging held at the Doubletree Lake Buena Vista Hotel. Category: Project writing over 175,000.

Listed in alphabetical order by name of newspaper. Final top 5 and honorable mention to be announced.

Shalise Manza Young, Greg A. Bedard, Christopher L. Gasper, Sean Smith and Luke Knox, Boston Globe
Mick McCabe, Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press
Kent Babb, Rustin Dodd, Blair Kerkhoff, Sam Mellinger and Terez A. Paylor, Kansas City Star
John Branch, The New York Times
J. Brady McCollough, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Dave Orrick, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press
Jackie Friedman, Nyier Abdou, Saed Hindash, The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.)
Dan Wiederer, Chip Scoggins, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Steve Wieberg, USA Today
Amy Shipley, Washington Post