Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tied for first place in the 2021 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division B Beat Writing category.
Bonsignore and Goold will be presented first-place plaques at the 2022 APSE Summer Conference banquet at The Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis on June 18. Click here to register for the conference.
Joe Mussatto of The Oklahoman finished third.
Sports editors in Division B submitted 62 Beat Writing entries.
Contest chair Jorge Rojas and fellow APSE officers Gary Potosky, Naila-Jean Meyers and Ed Reed prepared the entries. The contest is open to APSE members.
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 on a separate 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 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 finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Beat writing is a collection of five pieces by a single author that shows authoritative, newsy and innovative coverage of a beat. Each writer was required to submit one breaking news story, one event or game coverage story and one enterprise story. The final two pieces were left to the writer’s discretion and could include multimedia presentations.
The top 10 is listed below with voting results and links to the winning entries.
T1. Vincent Bonsignore, Las Vegas Review-Journal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 42 points (1 first-place vote)
T1. Derrick Goold, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 42 points (2 first-place votes)
3. Joe Mussatto, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 39 points
T4. Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 38 points (1 first-place vote)
T4. Steve Wiseman, News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 38 points
6. Chris Tomasson, St. Paul Pioneer Press 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 37 points (1 first-place vote)
7. Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 34 points (1 first-place vote)
8. Evan Barnes, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 23 points
9. George Stoia, The Gazette (Colorado Springs) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20 points
10. Alexandra Andrejev, The Charlotte Observer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17 points
