Dirk Chatelain of the Omaha World-Herald and Jackie MacMullan of ESPN.com tied for first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors’ 2018 contest in projects for the A Division.
Chatelain and MacMullan will be presented first-place plaques at the 2019 APSE Summer Conference Banquet at the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta on June 19.
Chatelain and MacMullan edged third-place Pete Thamel from Yahoo Sports.
Sports editors in the A Division submitted 28 project 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. In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 separately on a secret ballot. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion.
The winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The winner in each category will receive a plaque at the summer conference. The second- through 10th-place writers will receive frameable certificates.
A project sheds new light on personalities and issues in the news, including trends and original ideas. It is pre-planned content that is conceived and executed as a larger body of work. The top 10 is listed below with links to the winning entries:
T1. Dirk Chatelain, Omaha World-Herald 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 71 points, 3 first place votes
T1. Jackie MacMullan, ESPN.com 1 2 3 4 5, 71 points, 4 first-place votes
3. Pete Thamel, Yahoo Sports 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 63 points, 1 first-place vote
4. Dan Steinberg, Rick Maese, Liz Clarke, Jesse Dougherty and John Clayton, The Washington Post 1 2 3 4 5, 45 points
5. Lonnae O’Neal, Maya A. Jones and The Undefeated Staff, ESPN’s The Undefeated 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, 42 points
6. Staff, Bleacher Report 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 34 points
T7. Jason Bracelin, Las Vegas Review-Journal 1 2 3 4,31 points
T7. KC Johnson, David Haugh, Steve Rosenbloom and Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune 1 2 3 4 5, 31 points
9. Corbett Smith, Greg Riddle, Michael Florek, Eva-Marie Ayala and Stephanie Lamm, The Dallas Morning News 1 2 3 4 5, 31 points
10. Staff, Los Angeles Times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 29 points
