General Excellence ( 2 Year College/University,4 Year College/University)Back
Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Echo (Rochester Community and Technical College) Entry Title: Trump rallies in Rochester Entry Credit: Ilhan Raage, Nasro Araye, Nathan Hoover, Abigail Furutani, Ekhlas Abdullahi Judge Comment: Excellent newspaper! Full of ads, good editorial page, in depth, quality news coverage. Layout is clean and easy to read, nice use of photos and color.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Minnesota Daily (University of Minnnesota) Entry Title: Minnesota Daily Entry Credit: Staff Judge Comment: An excellent quality newspaper all the way around. Great coverage of local stories, layout is clean.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: MSU Reporter (Mankato State University) Entry Title: General Excellence Entry Credit: MSU Reporter , MSU Reporter Judge Comment: Nice publication. Good use of color, clean easy to read layout. Nice job of news and sports coverage. Filled with ads! Valentine's Day front page was eye-catching!
Competition Comment: Tough category to judge, all of the entries could easily have competed in the professional BNC contest. Each of the General Excellence submissions were outstanding. It was especially refreshing to see the qualify of local reporting. Well done.
