SWEEPSTAKES
WINNERS
Division 1
The Daily Sentinel
Division 2
Athens Daily Review
Division 3
Wise County Messenger
Division 4
Azle News
Division 5
Iowa Park Leader
Division 6
Crowley Star
Other Winners:
General
Excellence
Advertising
Column Writing
Editorials
Feature Story
Headline Writing
Page Design
News Writing
Sports Coverage
Feature Photo
News Photo
Sports Photo
Journalist of the Year
Photographer of the Year
Special Section of Special
Edition
Community Service
Thank You, Judges . . .
The North and East Texas Press
Association was privileged to have Kathryn Jones and
Dan Malone of Glen Rose as judges and judging coordinators
for the 2006 NETPA Better Newspaper Contest.
Kathryn Jones is a contributing
editor of Texas Monthly, a regular contributor
to The New York Times, a former staff writer
for The Dallas Morning News and adjunct instructor
of communications at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.
Her husband, Dan Malone, winner
of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting,
is a former staff writer The Dallas Morning News
and is currently a staff writer at the Fort Worth
Weekly and the adjunct instructor of journalism
at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Assisting them as judges were
Dr. Charles Howard, associate professor of communications
at Tarleton State University and students in his advertising
and marketing classes, and 25 Tarleton students in the
news writing class taught by Jones — Joey Berck,
Samantha Bonilla, Ashley Cagle, Clara Carpenter, Morgan
Christensen, Amanda Clendenen, Paul Gaudette, Kristi
Green, Dustin Haddock, Jessica Hardin, Kristi Heinze,
Becca Herod, Akhil Kadidal, Kelsi Kelso, Kara Kelton,
Ryan Lystad, Jimmy Martinez, Brandon McDonald, Laura
McKee, Jackie Melvin, Kali Mullins, Ashlee Ronshausen,
Rachel Russell, Julien Verzele and Erik Walsh.
“The professional journalists,
journalism professors and journalism students who judged
this contest came away impressed with the level of professionalism
and good writing that these entries reflect,”
Jones said.
“The journalism students
in particular expressed surprise because they tended
to associate good journalism mainly with large newspapers
such as The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, Los Angeles Times or Washington
Post. Helping to judge the contest interested many
of them in interning or applying for jobs at NETPA’s
member papers. Reading and critiquing the entries as
part of a class project ‘opened their eyes’
that good journalism can be done at non-metropolitan
dailies, semi-weeklies and weeklies. Thanks to NETPA’s
members for giving the next generation of reporters
and editors the opportunity to participate in recognizing
work of distinction.”
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