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Winners’ Circle 2018 TEXAS BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST RESULTS • A PUBLICATION OF THE TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION 2 2018 TEXAS BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST WINNERS’ CIRCLE Winners’ Circle A publication of Table of Contents TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION Results by Newspaper.............................................................................................................3 Advertising ........................................................................................................................4 8800 Business Park Dr., Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78759 Column Writing........................................................................................................................6 (512) 477-6755 • (512) 477-6759 fax Editorials..........................................................................................................7 www.texaspress.com General Excellence.................................................................................................................8 Feature Writing.......................................................................................................................10 Headline Writing.....................................................................................................................12 Feature Photo........................................................................................................................14 TPA OFFICERS 2017-18 News Photo............................................................................................................................16 News Writing..........................................................................................................................18 Patrick Canty Page Design...........................................................................................................................20 President Odessa American Special Sections....................................................................................................................22 Community Service................................................................................................................23 Laurie Ezzell Brown First Vice President Sports Coverage....................................................................................................................24 The Canadian Record Sweepstakes Winners...........................................................................................................26 Ramona Ferguson Best Website ........................................................................................................................26 Second Vice President Sports Photos........................................................................................................................27 The Banner Press Newspaper Jim Bardwell, Treasurer Gladewater Mirror About the Cover Photo Randy Keck FEATURE PHOTO, DIVISION 7, FIRST PLACE Chairman JAMES TAYLOR | GOLDTHWAITE EAGLE The Community News This cover photo from the Aug. 23, 2017 edition of the Goldthwaite Eagle depicts the excitement surrounding the eclipse visible in Texas last summer. Publisher Steven Bridges orchestrated the photograph and Editor James Micheal Hodges Taylor pulled the trigger with the camera. Featured in the photo are Goldthwaite Elementary students viewing the Executive Director eclipse through safety sunglasses. Texas Press Association About the Texas Better Newspaper Contest This year 142 newspapers submitted 1,410 In the sweepstakes contest categories, accumulation in the 12 sweepstakes categories. entries in the Texas Better Newspaper awards were presented in divisions deter- Each first-place award earned 100 points; Contest. The contest was broken down into mined by circulation. each second-place award earned 75 points; 10 divisions in which newspapers compete In the non-sweepstakes Community each third-place award earned 50 points; and against papers of similar circulation size. Service, Best Website, and Blue Moon each fourth-place award earned 25 points. Division 1 was reserved for the five metro special sections categories, participating The awards were announced June 23, 2018, dailies with the highest circulation in dailies, twice weeklies and weeklies were at LaTorretta Lake Resort & Spa on Lake Texas, which complete only in the General combined into one division each. In the non- Conroe in Montgomery, Texas. Excellence category. sweepstakes contest category of Best Routine The Winners’ Circle is an annual publica- This year, 29 dailies competed in Divisions Special Section, dailies and twice weeklies tion saluting the Better Newspaper Contest 2 and 3; 24 twice weekly newspapers compet- were combined into one division each and winners. ed in Divisions 4 and 5; and 89 weekly news- weeklies were combined into two divisions. Judges’ comments on the winners are papers competed in divisions 6 through 10. First place winners received plaques and included, along with selected samples of win- TPA member newspapers competing in second through fourth place winners earned ning entries. each division had the opportunity to submit certificates. The 2018 contest was judged by the entries in 12 sweepstakes contest categories Sweepstakes points are earned for each Nebraska Press Association as part of the and four non-sweepstakes contest categories. division (except Division 1) based on point Better Newspaper Contest judging swap. WINNERS’ CIRCLE 2018 TEXAS BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST 3 Advance2018 News Journal BetterDevil’s River Newspaper News Hico News Review ContestMineral WellsResults Index byTaylor Newspaper Press The Progress Second Place, Editorial First Place, Sports Photo First Place, General Excellence First Place, Headline Writing First Place, News Photo First Place, News Photo Second Place, News Photo Second Place, Headline Writing Second Place, News Photo First Place, Best Website First Place, News Writing Alvin Sun Third Place, General Excellence Second Place, Feature Photo Second Place, Column Writing Second Place, Sports Photo Third Place, Feature Writing Third Place, Column Writing Fourth Place, Advertising Third Place, Column Writing Third Place, News Writing Second Place, News Writing Third Place, Feature Photo Fourth Place, Page Design Third Place, Sports Coverage Third Place, General Excellence The Red River Sun Fourth Place, News Photo Fourth Place, Sports Coverage Fourth Place, News Writing Murphy Monitor Third Place, Page Design Third Place, Column Writing Fourth Place, Feature Writing First Place, Sports Photo Fourth Place, Routine Special Section Fourth Place, Headline Writing Double Mountain Chronicle Hill Country Community Journal First Place, Page Design Fourth Place, Sports Coverage Austin Business Journal First Place, Column Writing First Place, Page Design First Place, Feature Photo The Bastrop Advertiser First Place, Best Website Second Place, Advertising First Place, News Writing First Place, Sports Photo The Sealy News First Place, Feature Writing Second Place, Headline Writing Third Place, Community Service New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Second Place, Sports Coverage Fourth Place, Column Writing Second Place, Feature Photo Fourth Place, Feature Writing Third Place, Sports Coverage Third Place, Editorial Azle News Second Place, Editorial Fourth Place, Routine Special Section Third Place, Headline Writing Fourth Place, Headline Writing The Smithville Times First Place, Sports Coverage Second Place, News Writing Fourth Place, Page Design Fourth Place, Feature Photo Third Place, Sports Coverage First Place, Headline Writing Third Place, Feature Writing Hood County News Fourth Place, News Writing Fourth Place, General Excellence Fourth Place, Column Writing Second Place, Editorial First Place, Feature Photo Fourth Place, Page Design Third Place, Column Writing El Campo Leader-News First Place, Page Design News-Telegram The Times Tribune Fourth Place, Page Design First Place, News Photo Second Place, General Excellence First Place, Feature Photo The Belton Journal Third Place, News Writing First Place, Routine Special Section Second Place, News Writing Second Place, Column Writing Third Place, Sports Coverage Fourth Place, Editorial Baytown Sun Second Place, Advertising Second Place, Routine Special Section Third Place, News Writing Fourth Place, Community Service Second Place, Column Writing Second Place, Column Writing Third Place, Headline Writing Fourth Place, Feature Writing The Vindicator Third Place, Blue Moon Section Fourth Place, Editorial Third Place, Sports Photo The Big Bend Sentinel First Place, News Photo Fourth Place, Feature Photo Third Place, Sports Coverage Odessa American Second Place, Feature Writing Third Place, Editorial Beeville Bee-Picayune Fourth Place, General Excellence Fourth Place, News Photo First Place, News Writing Fourth Place, Sports Photo First Place, Editorial Fourth Place, Feature Writing The Bowie News First Place, Feature Writing Eldorado Success Huntsville Item Fourth Place, News Photo First Place, Advertising The Wylie News First Place, Community Service First Place, News Photo Second Place, Editorial Second Place, Blue Moon Section Third Place, Headline Writing Second Place, General Excellence Second Place, Page Design Second Place, Headline Writing Palestine Herald Press Second Place, Page Design Fourth Place, Feature Photo Second Place, Best Website Second Place, General Excellence Third Place, Advertising First Place, Editorial Third Place, General Excellence Third Place, Headline Writing Third Place, Sports Photo Fourth Place, Sports Photo Fourth