|
Best of
the big type
Winners of
the ACES headline contest include the staff
of a midsize paper and a pair of past honorees.
|
| Picking
up their headline contest awards at the reception Thursday night
were, from left, Division I winner Laura Dominick of the Los Angeles Times,
Division VI (scholastic) winner Lauren Raab of the University
of California at Los Angeles, Kelly Davenport of the staff
champion Tacoma News-Tribune and Division III runner-up Jeff
Verbus of the Canton (Ohio) Repository. |
|
| Steve Byers of the
Huntsville Times in Alabama also won his division last year. |
| Peter Donahue of The
Providence Journal also was a winner in 2002. |
|
Steve Byers of The Huntsville Times in Alabama
won his division for the second year in a row in the American Copy
Editors Society’s headline contest.
Six other copy editors and two copy desk staffs were honored for
excellence in headline writing Thursday night, April 20, at the
ACES conference in Cleveland.
Byers was the repeat champion in Division III (circulation 50,001-100,000).
Judges praised the headlines in his entry as “clever but on the
mark … solid and reader-friendly, accurate and inviting.”
In Division I (circulation of 250,001 and up) Laura Dominick of
the Los Angeles Times took first place. Receiving an award of excellence
was Jim McNett of The Oregonian.
In Division II (circulation 100,001-250,000), the winner was Peter
Donahue of The Providence Journal, who also won in 2002. Receiving
an award of excellence was Joshua Beach of Seattle Times.
Receiving an award of excellence in Division III was Jeff Verbus
of The Repository in Canton, Ohio.
The Division IV (circulation 50,000 or under) winner was Tracy
Cox of the Tuscaloosa News in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She is now with the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
In the staff division, The News-Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., took
the top prize. Receiving an award of excellence was The Washington
Post.
In the student publications
division, Lauren Raab of The Daily Bruin at the University of California
at Los Angeles took first place. Receiving an award of excellence
was Zachary Dillon, also of The Daily Bruin.
The sixth annual contest awarded a total of $2,250 in
cash prizes -- $500 to the first-place individual in each of the
four professional divisions, and $250 to the student winner -- plus
plaques and certificates. A plaque and certificates were awarded
for the winning staff entry.
Runners-up in all divisions received framed certificates.
In commenting on some of the winning headlines, judges said Dominick
“showed great skill, lyricism, range, imagination, originality,
cleverness and clarity in her entry.” Dominick is a copy editor
on the foreign desk.
The headlines entered by Donahue were “fun, engaging, witty, tasteful
and inviting. Each word has a place; nothing is excessive.” Donahue
is a metro section editor.
Cox “delivers clever headlines that have fun while still capturing
the news of each story.”
Of the team-winning entry from The News-Tribune, judges said of
the headlines: “Inventive, varied and fun. The creativity extended
from tiny briefs to longer stories.”
|
| Headline
writers at the Tacoma News-Tribune celebrate after learning
that they won the staff division of the ACES headline contest, beating entries
from papers and nonpapers of all sizes.In the front row are
Cole Cosgrove and Kelly Davenport. In the back row, from left,
are Rick Arthur, John Wallingford and Jeremy Edwards. (News-Tribune
photo) |
|
|
|
2005 ACES
HEADLINE
CONTEST
RESULTS
AT A GLANCE
Click here to read
all the headlines
DIVISION I (250,001-plus)
Winner: Laura Dominick, Los Angeles Times
Award of excellence: Jim McNett, The Oregonian
DIVISION II (100,001-250,000)
Winner: Peter Donahue, Providence (R.I.) Journal
Award of excellence: Joshua Beach, Seattle Times
DIVISION III (50,001-100,000)
Winner: Steve Byers, Huntsville (Ala.) Times
Award of excellence: Jeff Verbus, Canton (Ohio) Repository
DIVISION IV (50,000 or under)
Winner: Tracy Cox, Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News
Award of excellence: none
DIVISION V (staff)
Winner: Tacoma
(Wash.) News-Tribune (Rick Arthur, Cole Cosgrove,
Kelly Davenport, Jeremy Edwards, John Wallingford)
Award of excellence: Washington Post (Scott Butterworth, David Hall, Rose Jacobius, Tom
Kavanagh, David Larimer, Pat Myers, Doug Norwood, Michael Stuntz, Martha
Wright)
DIVISION VI (students)
Winner: Lauren Raab, Daily Bruin, University of California
at Los Angeles
Award of excellence: Zachary Dillon, Daily Bruin, University
of California at Los Angeles
|
|
