Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Cloquet - Pine Knot News Entry Title: Persistence, peace mark Line 3 protests Entry Credit: Timothy Soden-Groves Judge Comment: This is a topic that can be immensely polarizing, and this article does a wonderful job of presenting the passion the different sides feel about this project.
I’d have liked to see mention of Line 3 in the body of the article on the first page instead of having to wait until the jump, but the opening description definitely paints a vivid picture.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Hallock - Kittson County Enterprise Entry Title: County hires DDA Human Resources to find an engineer Judge Comment: This article is well written with clear, clean copy. All the information and context needed to understand what’s happening is readily available within the body of the article.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Jackson County Pilot Entry Title: Questions Swirl as Loon Lake Fills Entry Credit: Justin Lessman Judge Comment: The technical aspects of this article are fantastic and the photographs definitely add to readers’ ability to understand the topic.
These pieces have all the context needed, but I would have liked the breakout on A3 to be part of the main article. I found myself rereading a few parts of the main article that, as soon as I read the breakout, I understood.
