The staff of Advance Media New York in Syracuse won first place in the 2023 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division B Projects category on the 20th anniversary of Syracuse’s victory in the 2003 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2024 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Marriott South Park in Charlotte on June 22. Registration for the conference will open soon.
The staff will receive a plaque. The third- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 22 entries in the category. Contest chair Dan Spears and APSE officers Naila-Jean Meyers, Paul Barrett and Ed Reed prepared the entries.
Contest results: Sections, digital, video | Writing and photography
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and remote judges around the country selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1 to 10 in the same fashion. The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The top 10 are listed, with first-place votes in parentheses, along with links to the winning entries.
The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
1. Advance Media New York: Staff (6) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
2. Omaha World-Herald: Evan Bland, Henry Cordes, Tom Shatel, Sam McKewon 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
3. The Tennessean, Nashville: Mike Organ, Em Poertner 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
4. The Charlotte Observer: Loumay Alesali, Scott Fowler, Jeff Siner, Kata Stevens, Alex Zietlow 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
5. Lexington Herald-Leader: John Clay, Mathew Graf, Marcus Dorsey, Brian Simms 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
6. The Kansas City Star: Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
7. Andscape: Andscape/ESPN Staff 1 | 2
8. Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky.: Stephanie Kuzydym 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
9. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Jerry DiPaola and Bill Schackner 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
10. MassLive.com/The Republican, Springfield, Mass.: Karen Guregian, Matt Vautour, Sean McAdam, Chris Mason, Mark Daniels 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
