APSE contest

That's pretty pathetic on your boss' part. There's nothing wrong with wanting to win awards -- it's a nice bit of recognition for the staff and it boosts morale in a business that doesn't have much back-patting these days. But being obsessed and crazy about awards is a lot different than simply hoping to win.

 

have they posted the PDF flyer with all the information on how to submit? I just took over recently at my shop, and I really don't know the first thing about submitting stuff.

 

That is going to gum up a LOT of southern newspapers that load up for college football Sunday sections ...

rb

 

The Sunday mandatory dates hurt us, too. The date in June was a day when most of our high school baseball and softball (since Iowa plays late May through July) was rained out. The August date was a little better — our Class A Midwest League team was home and we had a couple of local features.

 

Drawn randomly, if they still do it like they used to. Them's the breaks...

 

That's my understanding. We've fared really well on the random days some years, not so well others. Being in a college market with no pro teams to cover during the summer means we load up on enterprise, but hit us on the wrong day during those months and we can be a little soft. Gotta make up for it with strong submissions for the other two days.

 

Then how in the hell did the Cincinnati Enquirer get an honorable mention?

 

Little help here... what exactly is an "explanatory" story? I always figured that it was kind of like a mini-project piece -- not quite the heft of a project, but still significantly deeper than a standard news or trend piece. But it says judges don't even read sidebars in that category, so it doesn't seem the right place for a multi-story package. Looking at the completely random stories that have won that category in the past, I have no idea what it is. Any idea?