Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Blooming Prairie Steele County Times Entry Title: General Excellence Entry Credit: Staff Judge Comment: Love the local editorial! Good mix of news and feature stories and strong advertising. Consider jumping fewer stories to create stronger inside pages with better layouts. Good sports section! Nice work.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Cloquet - Pine Journal Entry Title: General Excellence Entry Credit: Pine Journal staff Judge Comment: Nice mix of stories, good opinion page (although a local editorial would be nice), good ads. Good use of photos, strong sports coverage.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Osseo/Maple Grove/Champlin/ Dayton Press Entry Title: General Excellence Entry Credit: Alicia Miller, Sam Johnson Judge Comment: Clean layout, strong ads, robust sports section.
