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Place: 1 |
| Name: Charles Wilborn |
Publication: Danville Register and Bee |
| City: Danville |
Subject: agriculture and business pages |
| Comments: The cover was inviting and uncrowded. The use of illustrations, photos and breakouts served the reader well to understand the centerpiece. Good use of typography. |
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Place: 2 |
| Name: Mike Fox |
Publication: Bristol Herald Courier |
| City: Bristol |
Subject: Business pages from Feb. 9, June 28, July 4 and Sept. 6 |
| Comments: Good centerpiece. Attention-grabbing photo and layout. Lots of good chunks of information and consistent placement of features and items. |
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Place: 3 |
| Name: Staff |
Publication: The Daily Progress |
| City: Charlottesville |
Subject: |
| Comments: The tab format worked well for a weekly report. Folio format was clean. Good use of subheads. Strong centerpieces. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Eliza Evans |
Publication: The Dickenson Star |
| City: Clintwood |
Subject: |
| Comments: Comprehensive coverage that went beyond high school sports set this paper apart. It has the good pictures of the other papers, but it does a better job over more articles of truly capturing the events and letting the participants speak for themselves. |
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Place: 2 |
| Name: Jeffrey Tomik, John Galle |
Publication: The Shenandoah Valley-Herald |
| City: Woodstock |
Subject: |
| Comments: Very good writing that is expressive and expands on the games rather than using clichés to expand box scores. The pictures and graphics fit seamlessly in and generally always help the readers' understanding of the story. |
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Place: 3 |
| Name: Brian French |
Publication: Powhatan Today |
| City: Powhatan |
Subject: Sports pages |
| Comments: The graphics and detail were outstanding, especially on cover stories. The stories chosen would be appreciated even by an out-of-state reader, although it would have been nice to see more articles. Overall, very well done, just left the judge wanting more to read. Also, the layout was easy on the eyes, which never hurts. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Carl Lukat, Jennifer Chanthapanya, Steve Wheat, Lisa Johnson, Elizabeth Dodd, AJ Maclean |
Publication: Loudoun Times-Mirror |
| City: Leesburg |
Subject: Sports |
| Comments: Great layout and use of photography. I liked the focus on individual athletes in the profiles. Good job advancing events and supporting local interest. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Paul Frommelt |
Publication: Centre View |
| City: Centreville |
Subject: Centre View Page Design |
| Comments: Good use of page space. Design makes it easy to find stats and scores. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 3 |
| Name: John Harvey |
Publication: The Virginia Gazette |
| City: Williamsburg |
Subject: Sports pages for May 30 (required), Aug. 8 (required), Sept. 5 and Oct. 17 |
| Comments: Good variety of sports coverage. Excellent photos. |
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Place: 1 |
| Name: Steve Wheat, Peter Brewington, George Rowand, Betsy Parker, Robin Earl, Bill Walsh |
Publication: Fauquier Times-Democrat |
| City: Warrenton |
Subject: |
| Comments: Great front page layout and graphics. "Right on" headlines and lots of pix and illustrations worth a thousand words. Perfect white space and font balance. Editorial pages appeal. Excellent sports pages. Upbeat business section. all-around good traditional newspaper with a punchy style. |
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Place: 2 |
| Name: Tracy Bell, Jennifer Buske, Andrea Russell, KJ Mushung |
Publication: Stafford County Sun |
| City: Stafford |
Subject: |
| Comments: General work is appealing. Headlines on the mark and well-worded. Pleasing balance of text, photos and white space. Index and blurbs on page one helpful. Editorial-page layout gets readers' attention. Neighbors section pulls together all community news. Good job! |
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Place: 3 |
| Name: Mary Anne Weber, Rebecca Halik, Greg Wyshynski, Lawrence Foong, Stu Moll, Rich Sanders, Louise Krafft |
Publication: Alexandria Gazette Packet |
| City: Alexandria |
Subject: January 11, April 12, October 3, September 13 |
| Comments: Good use of color for layout. Design creates unity and helps eye skim pages. Pointed headlines well written. Full-page graphics are eye-easy. Pull-out sections are well-designed. An appealing package all around. |
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| General makeup |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Kemal Kurspahic, Meghan Williams, Paul Frommelt, John Smith, Christopher Staten, Aranya Tomseth |
Publication: Great Falls Connection |
| City: Great Falls |
Subject: Complete issues of the Great Falls Connection |
| Comments: Great use of color -- alternating color in subheads with colored pull quotes. Clean look, big headlines. Especially like map showing parks along with photos. Other Connection papers good also. |
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| General makeup |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Paul McFarlane, Cynthia Britt |
Publication: The Tidewater News |
| City: Franklin |
Subject: Jan. 12, April 13, July 25 and Oct. 26 editions |
| Comments: Good headlines. Clean-looking front pages. "It's happening here" is well done. "Playmaker" in sports is a good technique. |
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Place: 3 |
| Name: Staff |
Publication: Orange County Review |
| City: Orange |
Subject: Orange County Review
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| Comments: There's a photo on almost every page. Photo spreads in sports and elsewhere are attractive. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Myra Marshall |
Publication: The Coalfield Progress |
| City: Norton |
Subject: |
| Comments: My eye spent a lot of time rolling around the section-front page. Teaser on banner, quotes, shorts down the side, column. Clean, modular look with crisp color photos. Loved the scoreboard/briefs page. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Paul Frommelt |
Publication: Great Falls Connection |
| City: Great Falls |
Subject: Great Falls Sports Page Design |
| Comments: Liked the score inserts to break up type, the display of coaches' polls, the athlete-of-the-week feature and photo. Good grouping and display of news briefs. Separating the story and statistics pleases the casual reader while satisfying the insiders. Commendable photos complement words. |
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| Sports pages |
Place: 3 |
| Name: Staff |
Publication: Orange County Review |
| City: Orange |
Subject: Review sports pages |
| Comments: Clean, modular layout with attractive main and subheads. Girls and boys treated equally in stories and photo coverage. |
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| General makeup |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Michael O'Connell, Lea Mae Rice, Amber Healy, John Marcario, Robbie Hammer, Christopher Staten |
Publication: Laurel Hill Connection |
| City: McLean |
Subject: Four Issues of the Laurel Hill Connection |
| Comments: General appearance attracts reader. Layout clean with graphics used to good advantage (headline, pull quotes and color boxing). Various departments well marked. All comes together to make a paper highly readable and interesting for a wide audience. |
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| General makeup |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Travis Long, Ted Hayes |
Publication: The Valley Banner |
| City: Elkton |
Subject: General makeup |
| Comments: Eye-pleasing layout and use of headlines, photos and boxes. Nice balance of text and white space. Editorial page well balanced. |
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