Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Danville Register and Bee Entry Title: Danville Register & Bee - Front Page Entry Credit: Staff Judge Comment: Crisp, concise layout. Like the choice of typestyles for headlines. Good color choices on pages.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: The Free Lance-Star Entry Title: The Free Lance-Star's front page Entry Credit: Amanda Montag, Karen Wonsik, Santos Nazario-Bortz Judge Comment: Fantastic photography on each page! Tombstone headlines, not good. Suggest doing articles flush left and putting a .5 vertical line between stories so tombstones don't standout.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Bristol Herald Courier Entry Title: Bristol Herald Courier Entry Credit: Brian Reese Judge Comment: Good graphics. Pages were just too busy with little white space. Inconsistent upper portion of newspaper header.
Competition Comment: All three newspapers made the decision difficult with good graphics, design, photos, headlines.
