Kassie Bracken, John Branch, Ben Laffin, Rebecca Lieberman and Joe Ward of The New York Times won first place in the 2023 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A Projects category.
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 staff will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 21 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 New York Times: Kassie Bracken, John Branch, Ben Laffin, Rebecca Lieberman and Joe Ward (3) 1
2. The Athletic: Tashan Reed, Mike Smeltz (2) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
3. FloSports: Tim Truex, Michael Rigsby, Jeremy Hayes, David Coone, Paul Gandersman 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
4. NJ Advance Media (Newark): Matt Stanmyre 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
5. The San Francisco Chronicle: Ron Kroichick, Marisa Ingemi, Connor Letourneau 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
6. ESPN.com: Mike Fish (1) 1
7. Los Angeles Times: Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
8. The Denver Post: Patrick Saunders, Kyle Newman, Sean Keeler and Matt Schubert 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
9. The Arizona Republic: Staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
10. USA TODAY Sports: Dan Wolken and staff 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
