Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher - Better Newspaper Contest
Issue link: https://www.ifoldsflip.com/i/96748
Division 3 Best Special Section/Category 26 First place 2012 Who we are Staff, The News-Banner (Bluffton) Comments: Extensive local coverage. Consistent reporting. Creative look into the community. Great piece of journalism. Second place Gridiron guide Brian Harmon, Zak Keefer & Kyle Lewis, Daily Reporter (Greenfield) Comments: Extensive look into the upcoming football season. Great alternative. Third place Ag Week 2012 Staff, Daily Reporter (Greenfield) Comments: Educational look into the farming community. Great grid regarding the food we eat. Informational. Best Use of Graphics/Category 27 First place Stuck in neutral; Smoke signals; How will they run? Kyle Lewis, Daily Reporter (Greenfield) Comments: Great job taking the numbers and making them into something readers can make sense of and keeping your pages clean and fresh while doing it. Good job! Second place Stellar plans; Super rematch; Travel advisories Steve Garbacz, The Commercial Review (Portland) Comments: Nice map graphic lends your readers a tool to visualize the upcoming projects. Third place Gridiron sizzles; Out of nowhere; Naughty or nice? Elizabeth M. Goodman, The News & Tribune (Jeffersonville) Comments: Your artists and photographers are doing an excellent job working closely together to collaborate on art elements. Beautiful pages. Best Website/Category 28 See Page 12 for all divisions. Best Community Service/Category 29 First place Food and beverage tax Craig Mauger, The Courier-Times (New Castle) Comments: This is my kind of community service journalism, when a paper digs deep to expose a problem and gets results. It is almost unheard of in this day and age to find a local unit of government basically hoarding taxpayer dollars. It was especially shocking that it happened in a community with so many needs. This was an outstanding effort on the part of the newspaper. Outstanding job! Second place Baron von Steuben monument Mike Marturello, Jennifer Decker & staff, The Herald Republican (Angola) Comments: I loved the effort to preserve local history, which is something too many papers have dropped in light of staff cutbacks and tight budgets. The way things came together to get the sculpture done was a great story in itself. This was wonderful. Third place Slaying the dragon: Fighting the growing heroin epidemic in Randolph County Amanda McFerrin, Bill Richmond & Rick Reed, The NewsGazette (Winchester) Comments: It���s surprising how many people don���t realize that heroin use is such a serious problem. The News-Gazette staff did an outstanding job covering the problem and the community response. Best Newspaper Design/Category 30 First place Staff, Daily Reporter (Greenfield) Comments: Compelling graphics. Your front pages really pop. Clean, concise, consistent and visually appealing. Way to go! Second place Doug Smith, The Sullivan Daily Times Comments: Bold page design, nice use of photos. Exceptional header and overall very clean. Third place Mike Marturello, Jenny Kobiela-Mondor & Staff, The Herald Republican (Angola) Comments: Nice use of color, all around good typography and design. Good use of white space grabs the eye. Page 39