what's up papers in APSE's big circ. categories, i'm dan wetzel and i own you!

[spankys]

dude won FIVE writing awards! that has to be a record.

big paper SE's wishing they didn't let Yahoo! in this year?

and no, im not dan.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: what's up papers in APSE's big circ. categories, i'm dan wetzel and i own yo

Where are the results posted?

 

[MileHigh]

APSportseditors.org.

But the thing is, there are so few papers/Web sites (and thus entries) in the largest circulation group (I want to say 30ish, maybe 40). That said, Dan is a helluva writer.

 

[SF_Express]

I'm not seeing how he did it, or I'm reading something wrong or simply blind.

He's not in columns over 250,000, and he's not in features over 250,000. He's in investigative, and he's in projects. What am I missing?

No reflection on Dan, one of my favorites. But I'm not seeing the five writing awards. Clarification, anyone?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: what's up papers in APSE's big circ. categories, i'm dan wetzel and i own yo

I'm not seeing how he did it, or I'm reading something wrong or simply blind.

He's not in columns over 250,000, and he's not in features over 250,000.

He's in features ...

OVER 250,000
FEATURE STORIES

Top 10

David Moore, Dallas Morning News
Lindsay H. Jones, Denver Post
Jackie Friedman, Newark Star-Ledger
Michael O’Keefe, New York Daily News
Izzy Gould, St. Petersburg Times
Brent Schrotenboer, San Diego Union-Tribune
Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune
Sally Jenkins, Washington Post
Mike Wise, Washington Post
Charles Robinson and Dan Wetzel, Yahoo

 

[MileHigh]

He's in features, projects, breaking news, game stories and investigative.

 

[SF_Express]

He's in features, projects, breaking news, game stories and investigative.

Well, uh ... what's your point?

OK, thanks...Missed him in features and hadn't looked at breaking news and gamers. And I thought his possibilities were already less than five. My bad....Congrats to Dan, unless, of course, you hate the APSE contest and then, "Boy, what a loser."

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm assuming ESPN.com, CBSsports.com and SI.com do not compete?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Wetzel is one of the best around.

 

[Ace]

He's in features, projects, breaking news, game stories and investigative.

Well, uh ... what's your point?

OK, thanks...Missed him in features and hadn't looked at breaking news and gamers. And I thought his possibilities were already less than five. My bad....Congrats to Dan, unless, of course, you hate the APSE contest and then, "Boy, what a loser."

So Dan Wetzel is apselos .... nah, couldn't be.

 

[Point of Order]

Next year:

 

[gingerbread]

I'm assuming ESPN.com, CBSsports.com and SI.com do not compete?

Neither does AOL FanHouse, at least not this year. But that doesn't mean Dan still wouldn't have swept the awards. He's a fantastic reporter and writer.
Though here's something the judges might one day have to consider: web sites often have much later deadlines than newspapers, especially on the East coast. And web sites can make corrections long after the article has appeared.

 

[SF_Express]

I'm assuming ESPN.com, CBSsports.com and SI.com do not compete?

Neither does AOL FanHouse, at least not this year. But that doesn't mean Dan still wouldn't have swept the awards. He's a fantastic reporter and writer.
Though here's something the judges might one day have to consider: web sites often have much later deadlines than newspapers, especially on the East coast. And web sites can make corrections long after the article has appeared.

It's true, some of the main websites were not in the mix this year.

But I agree ... Wetzel likely would have pulled this off anyway. He didn't get five mentions because it's a "weak field," obviously.

As far as the correcting thing goes, it's an honor system, but stories are supposed to be submitted as they were when they came and left the daily news cycle.

That doesn't mean you couldn't make corrections when it was a daily link on your site. But it would be against the spirit of the rules if you read it as you were preparing contest entries and went back and cleaned some things up well after the fact.

Doesn't mean it won't be done, but that's the sense I get of what SHOULD be done (or shouldn't).