The Athletic won first place in the 2023 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A Event Coverage category. Joe Buscaglia, Tim Graham, Richard Deitsch, Jourdan Rodrigue, Mike DeFabo won for their coverage of Damar Hamlin’s medical emergency during the Bills-Bengals NFL game.
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 Athletic will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 24 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. The Athletic: Joe Buscaglia, Tim Graham, Richard Deitsch, Jourdan Rodrigue, Mike DeFabo (1) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
2. NJ Advance Media, Newark: Brian Fonseca, Pat Lanni, Kevin Armstrong, Steve Politi, Todderick Hunt (3) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
3. Star Tribune, Minneapolis (2): Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
4 (tie). Los Angeles Times: Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
4 (tie). The New York Times: Sopan Deb, Tania Ganguli, Sean Catangui, Leo Dominguez 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
6. Newsday: Tom Rock, Al Iannazzone 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
7. The Advocate/The Times-Picayune (Baton Rouge/New Orleans): Reed Darcey, Jim Kleinpeter, Scott Rabalais, Wilson Alexander, Patrick Magee 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
8. The Philadelphia Inquirer: Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
9. Southern California News Group: Luca Evans, Mirjam Swanson, Jim Alexander, James Williams, Haley Sawyer 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
10. The Arizona Republic: Nick Piecoro, Theo Mackie, Jenna Ortiz, Greg Moore 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
