New England Associated Press News Executives Association

 

2008 Web Site contest

 

Eligibility

A Web site produced by the staff of any newspaper that's a dues-paid member of the New England AP News Executives Association.

 

Class divisions and entry fees - based on circulation

Over 40,000    $50

Under 40,000  $35

Your entry fee covers all contest categories.

Please send checks made out to NEAPNEA to:
The Associated Press
Web Site Contest
2 Capitol Plaza, Suite 400
Concord, NH 03301

 

To determine your class, use the latest Editor & Publisher circulation figures

 

Registration deadline

All entry forms must be returned by June 16 to Larry Laughlin (llaughlin@ap.org) with a cc to Michele Mitchell (mmitchell@ap.org). Just paste the entry form below into an email.

 

Judging

Judges will visit the sites at times of their choosing. They will determine the winners for each category in the two divisions. There will be no second- or third-place awards.

 

The winners will be announced July 7 on the wire and this Web site and honored at the NEAPNEA fall conference in Concord, N.H., on Sept. 19.

 

Contest requirements

Entries may be accompanied by brief statements – one statement for each category entered – directing the judges to a site’s key attributes and explaining how the site meets each category’s criteria.

 

Web managers should provide passwords for protected sites, so the judges will have free access.

 

 

1. Overall Site.

   Recognizes general excellence. The site should successfully fulfill

its editorial mission, effectively serve its audience, maximize unique

abilities of the Web and represent the highest journalistic standards.

Key attributes include excellence of content, multimedia components,

pleasing design, ease of navigation and community tools. The site also

should demonstrate print and online components that enhance one another.

 

2. Engagement

   Recognizes the most innovative methods of encouraging user

involvement. Judges will look at creativity, innovation and user

response. Entrants should site specific, working interactive elements.

  

3. News Presentation

   Recognizes a site's status as the place to go to find out what's going on in the city, state, region, nation or world. The site should demonstrate energy through frequent updates and independent news production. Key attributes will be the use of databases, outside links and other online-only tools that maximize capacities of the Web and enhance news coverage.

 

4. Sports Section

   Recognizes depth and timeliness of coverage, innovation and effective

service to its audience. Key attributes will be breadth of coverage, use

of online tools that enhance the print report and interactivity.

 

5. Public Service

   Recognizes a site's efforts to get useful information to the

public. It honors the delivery of information that improves the quality

of the users' lives including, but not limited to, health, personal

finance, lifestyle, education, relationships, family issues.

 

6. Special Section.

   Recognizes development of a single topic in a presentation with a

limited lifespan. Key attributes will be innovation, engagement,

interactivity and fulfillment of mission.

 

7. Entertainment Section

   Recognizes a continuing presentation of information on a variety of

topics that could include food and its preparation, health,

entertainment, arts, music or movies. Key attributes will be depth,

timeliness, innovation, interactivity and an ease of use that would

encourage repeated visits. Judges will look at the quality of the entire

section.

 

  

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