Brett Vito of the Denton Record-Chronicle won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2018 contest in Multimedia for the D Division.
His entry on a new athletic facility at the University of North Texas beat out efforts by The Carlisle Sentinel and Columbia Missourian in final voting.
Sports editors in the D Division submitted 10 multimedia entries. The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Todd M. Adams and fellow APSE officers John Bednarowski, Lisa Wilson and Dan Spears prepared entries, which included online links to stories for the first time this year.
In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a set of finalists, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 3 separately on a secret ballot. Entries were given three points for a first-place vote, two points for second and one for third. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-3 in the same fashion.
The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
Vito will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2019 APSE Summer Conference Banquet at the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta on June 19. The second- and third-place writers will receive frameable certificates.
For this contest, multimedia included interactive graphics and slideshows, a combination of those items, or any other produced product that falls under the description of multimedia (other than simple videos). Entries were judged on strength of storytelling, with visual and auditory quality considered. Up to five pieces in a series on the same topic could be considered one single entry.
The top three is listed below with links to the winning entries..
1. Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 17 points (5 first-place votes)
2. Jake Adams and Joshua Vaughn, The Carlisle Sentinel, 10 points
3. Will Jarvis and Alec Lewis, Columbia Missourian, 9 points (1)
