Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: The Daily Cardinal Entry Title: The Daily Cardinal Entry Credit: The Daily Cardinal Staff , The Daily Cardinal Staff , The Daily Cardinal Staff Judge Comment: Solid content and editing, good opinion and sports, features were good. I marked you down for design. You have excellent photogs, use them! Design around the photos you have. Your standard layouts are doing nothing for the copy you have. Read other papers, look at the cool designs being used (AND NOT AT THE WASHINGTON POST OR NYT). Try some. Make things attractive and you will get more readers.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Marquette Tribune Entry Title: 2022 Marquette Tribune Entry Credit: Staff Judge Comment: Just solid all the way across the board. Need some help with editing — make a decision on your copy-editing style and stick with it. That is too all over the place. And also, remember to cover your campus thoroughly. You are the experts there. Cover the hell out of it.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: The Clarion Entry Title: The Clarion Entry Credit: Lillian Coppelman, Kaleia Lawrence Judge Comment: Good, solid. You are putting in the effort and it shows. You are at the point that you can try some new things — put out some special editions where you cover the crap out of one topic. You have the skills and you are a good staff. Plan it out and then try. You are going to surprise yourselves.
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: The Badger Herald Entry Title: General Excellence Entry Credit: The Badger Herald Judge Comment: Love the style of this paper. Love the special design of some of your pages (some are pretty basic, though). I gave you honorable mention over another paper that actually scored higher because I see so much potential in your reporting, coverage, editing and design. You need to pull together just a little bit more — use your editorial board meetings to plan further out (I know, I know —it is hard) and you are going to get there!!
Competition Comment: This was a tough category. Good entries across the board. Everyone has places to work on and are noted as such. Your late nights and early mornings are worth it — you are producing professional products. Keep going. Push through and listen your your journalism professors and your advisers. They are smart and know what they are talking about. Keep reading newspapers. Get smarter. You are good. Get better. We need YOU. Thank you for carrying on our noble profession.
