Times Is Honored in Contest
The Times was one of three newspapers to win a triple crown award in the large paper circulation category in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors national contest. Results of section and writing contests were announced Wednesday.
The Times, along with the Boston Globe and New York Daily News, finished in the top 10 in daily, Sunday and special section categories--APSE’s triple crown--in judging by 90 sports editors and their assistants over the last three days in Redondo Beach.
The Times also had five staff writers in three categories in top 10 writing categories. Bill Plaschke and Randy Harvey were listed in column writing, Mark Heisler in feature writing and the project team of Alan Abrahamson, David Wharton and Harvey in enterprise reporting. Plaschke was last year’s national winner in the column category.
The Boston Globe led the way in honors for big papers with its triple crown, plus seven writers in five categories, followed by The Times with its triple, plus five writers in three categories.
Section judging is final, and those papers honored in the top 10 will receive awards at the group’s national convention at Baltimore in June. Writing categories are sent along to managing editors, who place the 10 finalists in 1-5 order, plus honorable mentions.
Also doing well in the large-circulation category (250,000 and above) was the Orange County Register, which was among the top 10 daily sections and was accorded honorable mention for Sunday and special sections. Register staff writer Scott Reid was a writing finalist in game story, news and investigative categories. A Long Beach Press Telegram writing team of Mary Hancock Hinds, Steve Irvine, Ted Klan, Faustos Ramos, Joe Segura, Wendy Thomas Russell and Billy Witz placed in investigative.
Other area honors went to the Los Angeles Daily News, named to the top 10 daily and honorable mention Sunday for papers 100,000-250,000, as well as former Daily News staffer Jon Wilner, now with the San Jose Mercury News, in news story; Paul Oberjuerge of the San Bernardino Sun, top 10 column writing and game story for papers 40,000-100,000, and Lisa Nehus Saxon of the Riverside Press-Enterprise, top 10 in column writing (100,000-250,000).