Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Eastfield College Entry Title: ETC Overall design newspaper 1 Entry Credit: Et Cetera staff Judge Comment: News worthy topics include election coverage! Good graphics and chunking for those results; nice size photos for the page size; good use of color, graphics on the dating/burger/snake articles; clean, inviting layouts continue in the issue. Very nice.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Amarillo College Entry Title: Nov. 3 Issue Entry Credit: Phoebe Terry, Rylee Moore, Kamden Slough, Faith Chamberlain Judge Comment: Front and back of this issue are excellent; the front combines art with an infographic on newsworthy topics. The last page does the same with outstanding use of art. Inside, the issue feels like another publication. Feels much more crowded. a few spacing issues in text.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Brookhaven College Entry Title: Issue 43-07 Entry Credit: Rosa Poetschke, Brookhaven Courier Staff Judge Comment: Nice news coverage, good package on artist - wish one photo was more dominant; one page is very grey-feels crowded; don't separate the head from the beginning of the article (last page).
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: A&M-Kingsville Entry Title: Overall Design - Newspaper Entry Credit: The South Texan Staff Judge Comment: Good news coverage, some spacing issues in text - don't make the columns so narrow for body text. Try to vary your column width for special articles. Make sure you align your text to the baseline grid.
