FILE - A group of sportswriters confer with Grantland Rice, noted sports authority, seated at center, in Chicago, Nov. 13, 1949, to select Look Magazine's All-America college football team. Seated, from left: Hal Middlesworth, Daily Oklahoman; Rice; and Bert McGrane, Des Moines Register. Standing from left: Raymond Johnson, Nashville Tennessean; Francis Powers, Chicago Daily News; Tim Cohane, Look Magazine; Charley Johnson, Minneapolis Star; Bill Leiser, San Francisco Chronicle, and HG. Salsinger, Detroit News. (AP Photo/Paul Cannon, File)
A project celebrating 100 years and a Top 25 blog spark huge audience engagement
To launch its college football coverage with deeper reader engagement, a multi-department AP team centered its strategy on the wildly popular Top 25 poll and the 100th anniversary of the AP All-America team. Instead of standard coverage, the team undertook a massive archival data project, digging through a century of scarce records. They successfully compiled […]
AUG. 22, 2025
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