Category X - COVID-19 in your community ( 10,001 and Over Multi-Day,5,001 - 10,000 Multi-Day,Under 5,000 Multi-Day)Back
Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Grand Forks Herald Entry Title: On the border series: Northwest Angle faces challenges due to border closure Entry Credit: Brad Dokken, Ann Bailey, Eric Hylden, Sydney Mook, Korrie Wenzel Judge Comment: "On the Border" was a superb series on the COVID-19 complications at the U.S.-Canada border, nicely complemented with a well-done three-part video to see the faces and hear the voice of people affected.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Mankato - The Free Press Entry Title: Free Press COVID coverage Entry Credit: Free Press Staff Judge Comment: The Free Press probably did the best job in telling the people stories, particularly in the profiles of victims of the virus,
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Fargo/Moorhead - The Forum Entry Title: The Forum's Category X entry Entry Credit: Forum staff Judge Comment: Good job taking head-on North Dakota's worst-in-the-nation infection rate during the pandemic.
Competition Comment: Lots of good entries. Difficult to judge because each entry was limited to five examples of what must have been scores of reports each newspaper did on local effects of COVID-19. In most entries, I would have preferred to see more reporting of impacts on individual people rather than institutions, which were mostly inconvenienced.
