Combination Picture and Story ( Daily Group 3)Back
Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: The Roanoke Times Entry Title: Heather Rousseau, Ukrainian family Entry Credit: Heather Rousseau Judge Comment: This one fires on all cylinders. A moving, emotional story with a hard news peg paired with a take of compelling, engrossing photos wrapped up in a clean, unpretentious design that gets out of the way and allows those beautiful images to enhance the story. Bonus points for the map, which is a wonderful and very useful supplement. Beautiful presentation all around. Excellent work!
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: The Virginian-Pilot Entry Title: Aircraft carrier Entry Credit: Kendall Warner, Caitlyn Burchett Judge Comment: Ridiculously beautiful and fascinating photographs in this very well-written package. A clean, straightforward design gives the presentation great balance and readability.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Richmond Times-Dispatch Entry Title: Dogwood Dell A1 Entry Credit: Patrick Wilson , Justin Morrison, Dave Sager , Alexa Edlund, Daniel Min, Shaban Athuman Judge Comment: Very strong community journalism. This package demonstrates expert storytelling through a combination of these design elements and images. Awesome use of the timeline syncing up very well with the photographs to tell the entire linear story.
Place Name: Alternate Winner Contestant Name: Richmond Times-Dispatch Entry Title: ‘An unimaginably sad day’ Entry Credit: Staff Judge Comment: Beautiful imagery anchors this impactful piece of journalism. Richmond is lucky to have this far-beyond-average paper.
