Courtney Cronin of the The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.) won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2015 contest in Long Video for the 30,000-75,000 circulation category for her video on the recruitment of high school star Malik Newman.
Cronin will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2016 APSE banquet. The banquet and awards dinner concludes the APSE Conference June 22-25 at the Omni-Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C.
Balloting by six APSE judges ranked Jordan ahead of runner-up Jason Farmer of the Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.) and third-place finishers Andrea Melendez and Andrew West of the News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.).
The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Sports editors in the 30,000-75,000 circulation category submitted a total of 11 long video entries directed by APSE member sports departments in 2015. Contest chair and APSE first vice president Tommy Deas numbered each entry, assuring they had been stripped of headlines, graphics, bylines and any other element that would identify the writer or news organization.
In late February-early March at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., preliminary judges selected a top 3, with each judge listing the videos in order from 1 to 3 separately on a secret ballot. The final 3 were given to a second judging group, which also ranked the entries 1-3 in the same fashion. The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots, giving an entry three points for a first-place vote, two points for second and 1 point for third.
The top 3 is listed below with links to writers’ Twitter pages, APSE member websites and winning entries.
- Courtney Cronin, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.) 17 points, 5 first-place votes
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman – Evaluating the nation’s best
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman, Episode 4
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman – Living history, Pt. 1
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman – Living History, Pt. 2
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman – All-access at the McDonald’s All American Game
Beyond The Game: Malik Newman – The decision
- Jason Farmer, The Times-Tribune (Scranton, Pa.) 10 points, 1 first-place vote
BORN TO BE A CHAMPION: The Dalton LaCoe Story
- Andrea Melendez and Andrew West, The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.) 9 points
