Divisions for the 2023 APSE Contest have been announced.
Divisions this year were done through a combined print and digital subscriber circulation for legacy newsrooms, while unique visitors were used for websites and subscribers to Substack and newsletter-driven sites.
In all, 166 members will be participating in the contest.
APSE Contest Chair Dan Spears is still seeking judges, both remote and in person at the APSE Winter Meeting in Orlando, Fla., scheduled for Feb. 25-29. To be a judge, please fill out this online form by Jan. 26: https://forms.gle/67zW3rXcELWPJtJv7
Remote judging of sections will begin Monday, Jan. 29, with judging of writing categories set for later that week.
If you have questions or want to move up a division, please reach out to Dan at apsecontest@gmail.com.
DIVISIONS FOR THE 2023 CONTEST
A Division
AL.com; Bay Area News Group; Chicago Tribune; Detroit Free Press; ESPN.com; FloSports; Gambling.com Group; Houston Chronicle; Los Angeles Times; Miami Herald, Newsday, NJ Advance Media (Newark); Southern California News Group; Star Tribune (Minneapolis); Tampa Bay Times; The Advocate | The Times Picayune; The Arizona Republic; The Athletic; The Boston Globe; The Dallas Morning News; The Denver Gazette; The Denver Post; The New York Times; The Philadelphia Inquirer; The San Francisco Chronicle; The Seattle Times; The Washington Post; USA TODAY Sports; Yahoo Sports
B Division
Advance Media NY (Syracuse); Andscape; BamaCentral; Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.); IndyStar (Indianapolis); Knoxville News Sentinel; Las Vegas Review-Journal; Lexington Herald-Leader; MassLive; Naples Daily News; Omaha World-Herald; Orlando Sentinel; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; Richmond Times-Dispatch; San Antonio Express-news; Sellout Crowd (Oklahoma City); South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; The Baltimore Banner; The Baltimore Sun; The Blade (Toledo, Ohio); The Buffalo News; The Charlotte Observer; The Cincinnati Enquirer; The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch; The Detroit News; The Kansas City Star; The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.); The Oklahoman; The Oregonian; The Palm Beach Post; The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.); The Salt Lake Tribune; The San Diego Union-Tribune; The Tennessean (Nashville); The Villages Daily Sun; The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
C Division
Asheville Citizen Times; Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Miss.); Columbia Daily Tribune; Daytona Beach news-Journal; Erie Times-News; Evansville Courier & Press; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Go Long; Green Bay Press-Gazette; Idaho Statesman (Boise); JohnCanzano.com; Lincoln Journal Star; LoneStarLive.com; Lubbock Avalanche-Journal; Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, Ill.); PennLive (Harrisburg); Pensacola News Journal; South Bend Tribune; Tallahassee Democrat; The Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.); The Commercial Appeal (Memphis); The Daily Memphian; The Daily Sun (Port Charlotte, Fla.); The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.); The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville); The Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg, Va.); The Gazette (Colorado Springs); The Greenville (S.C.) News; The News-Gazette (Champaign, Ill.); The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.); The Record (Bergen, N.J.); The Roanoke Times; The Scranton Times-Tribune; The State (Columbia, S.C.); The Stein Line; The Topeka Capital-Journal; Treasure Coast Newspapers (Stuart, Fla.); Wilmington (N.C.) StarNews; Wisconsin State Journal.
D Division
Amarillo Globe-News; Athens Banner-Herald; Augusta Chronicle; Burlington (Vt.) Free Press; Capital Gazette (Annapolis, Md.); Carroll County Times; Casper Star-Tribune; Century Newspapers (California); Corpus Christi Caller-Times; Daily Record (Rockaway, N.J.); Denton Record-Chronicle; Gadsden Times; Grand Forks Herald; Hattiesburg American; Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News; Journal & Courier (Lafayette, Ind.); Laramie Boomerang; Las Cruces Sun News; Lock Haven Express; Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal; Marietta Daily Journal; MetroWest Daily News; Montgomery Advertiser; Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal; On Montlake; Petoskey News-Review; Picket Fence Media (California); Redding Record Searchlight; Rockford Register-Star; Santa Cruz Sentinel; Savannah Morning News; Southwest Times Record (Fort Smith, Ark.); Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader; Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine); The Aegis (Harford County, Md.); The Bryan-College Station Eagle; The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.); The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, Tenn.); The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer; The Florence Morning News; The Gainesville Sun; The Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.); The Herald-Times (Bloomington, Ind.); The Holland Sentinel; The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.); The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.); The Pine Belt News (Hattiesburg); The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pa.); The Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.); The Tuscaloosa News; Tide Illustrated; University of Maryland Shirley Povich Center; Visalia Times-Delta; Wichita Falls Times News Record; Williamsport Sun-Gazette; Wyoming Tribune Eagle; Yakima Herald-Republic; Yankton Press & Dakotan; York (Pa.) Daily Record; Zanesville Times Recorder.
