By John Bednarowski, APSE Fourth Vice President
The team from The Oklahoman took first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2014 contest in the Multimedia B category for its project on The Play that Changed it All.
Jason Kersey, Berry Tramel, Damon Fontentot, Tim Money and Richard Hall will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2015 APSE banquet. The banquet and awards dinner concludes the APSE Conference June 24-27 at The Westgate Hotel in San Diego, Calif.
Their winning entry in the category for newspapers with 500,000 to 2 million unique visitors annually went inside the key play that helped determine the outcome of Bedlam, the 2014 Oklahoma-Oklahoma State football game.
Mike Organ, Dave Ammenheuser, Eric Stromgren of The Tennessean placed second for their multimedia series Legendary Ladies: Middle Tennessee’s Elite Eight, influential women with connections to Middle Tennessee University that helped put women’s college basketball on the map in the United States.
Sports editors in Class B category submitted 7 multimedia entries. In early February in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. judges selected selected and ranked the top two.
The contest is open to APSE members. Go to this link to join.
- Jason Kersey, Berry Tramel, Damon Fontenot, Tim Money, Richard Hall, The Oklahoman, 20 points, 2 first-place votes
- Mike Organ, Dave Ammenheuser, Eric Stromgren, Tennessean, 18 points
Legendary Ladies: Middle Tennessee’s Elite Eight
(John Bednarowski is sports editor of the Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal and fourth vice president of APSE. Contact him at johnbednarowski@gmail.com)
