Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Courier Sentinel Entry Title: Fate of the missing Entry Credit: Ginna Young Judge Comment: This is news worthy in every community across the nation. Nice use of photos that connect the community to the story, and nice use of quotes from the interviews that were conducted, This ia story that obivously took many hours of research and interviewing. Insightful and impactful.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Courier Sentinel Entry Title: It's not the Jetsons car Entry Credit: Ginna Young Judge Comment: The sotry of this EV is interesting and certaining ties in with the EV initiavie across the nation. The lede is a little confusing at first but a second read made clearer the intent of the story.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: The Edgerton Reporter Entry Title: Edgerton recognized at white house evnt Entry Credit: Sam Martino, Diane Everson Judge Comment: Nice story that that tie not just a national story but a world wide program to the local community.
Well written and nice transitions from local interest to a national event.
Competition Comment: It is interesting to see how often and in what capacity local news ties into nationwide initiatives.
I did find that some of these stories need work on sentence structure and puncuation (that's the retired English teacher in me), but overall the writers have done a nice job of tying local and national initiatives together.
