Overall Design - Web ( Division 3)
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- Place Name: First Place
Contestant Name: Amarillo College
Entry Title: The Ranger Online
Entry Credit: Karissa Chittavong, Evan Banner
Judge Comment: Amarillo College is the best in its class in West Texas. The newspaper is no different. The Ranger's website is easily navigable with diverse content and free of fussiness. AC clearly pumps out very talented and impressive students who are curious about their community and telling its stories too.
- Place Name: Second Place
Contestant Name: Dallas College - Brookhaven
Entry Title: Brookhaven Courier - website
Entry Credit: The Brookhaven Courier Staff
Judge Comment: Brookhaven Courier is another fine example of the Dallas College system's great journalism programs. Saying there's too much content in journalism may seem ironic. But in this case there are far too many stories in each section on the landing page. The scrolling doesn't end. I'd recommend condensing some sections or cutting the size of the carousel in half. Would make the fantastic photographs and graphics shine even more.
- Place Name: Third Place
Contestant Name: Trinity University
Entry Title: Trinitonian.com
Entry Credit: Trinitonian.com , Sadie Eidson
Judge Comment: The Trinitonian represents Trinity University's student body and culture, which in my experience is bright, intellectually curious and aware of what most of us wouldn't notice. Magnificent layout, though the huge poll, whether an error or choice, is odd. Carousel could be tighter and smaller, which would move the content on right sidebar and make vitals (weather, trending stories, etc.) more prominent.
- Place Name: Honorable Mention
Contestant Name: Dallas College - Eastfield
Entry Title: The Et Cetera - website
Entry Credit: The Et Cetera Staff
Judge Comment: The Et Cetera, like the Eastfield campus journalism program, always deserves recognition. Like the others, the content is diverse and timely though the news section seems to be less about the campus and more about national issues. The Facebook page in the right sidebar hasn’t been updated for a year. The subscription option dangles randomly below latest news and life and arts, then the latest news, op-eds and features reappear below followed by oversized comics. Not sure what’s happening, but it needs a deep clean to help these student journalists really shine.
- Competition Comment: As divisions get smaller, so do resources. Yet the entrants all show they are up to the task of studying, working and putting out a newspaper too, and just as well as those in the divisions above.
