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Board votes to combine KPA contests
The Kentucky Press Association Board of Directors has accepted the recommendations of its Contest Committee to combine the Better and Fall Newspaper contests into one.
The move was necessitated after the board voted at the Fall 2001 Board Retreat to discontinue the KPA Summer Convention after this year's meeting in Gatlinburg. The 2002 KPA Summer Convention will be June 20-22 and will be combined with the Tennessee Press Association.
Registration information has been mailed to all newspapers.
The Better Newspaper Contest awards had been associated with the Summer Convention while the Fall Newspaper Contest awards are presented at the Winter Convention.
The committee, chaired by John Nelson, met in December and presented a list of recommendations at the January board meeting but noted it wanted to get more information about the contests before making a final recommendation.
The final version was submitted to the KPA board and its April meeting and approved unanimously.
Some of the Better Newspaper Contest categories will be merged into the Fall Newspaper Contest. The committee noted that some of the BNC categories were duplicated in the KPA Ad Contest and would be deleted from the "editorial" contest.
Categories duplicated in the Ad Contest include Newspaper Promotion, Special Edition/Section, Best Ad Idea and Overall Best Display Advertising.
The BNC is based on layout and design of newspapers with awards going to member newspapers while the Fall Newspaper Contest is geared toward reporting and photography. The FNC awards are presented in the names of individual staff members.
The new Fall Newspaper Contest, probably to be renamed the KPA Editorial Contest, will include 26 categories, a slight increase from previous years.
The recommendations also included two changes in the FNC:
• combining Category 18 (Best News Picture Essay - Spot or General News) and Category 20 (Best Feature Picture Essay) into one category -- Best Picture Essay - Spot, General or Feature; and,
• combining Category 2 (Best Spot News Story) and Category 12 (Best Spot News Package) into one category -- Best Spot News Coverage -- and rewriting the description to reflect entries in this category can be a single story or a package of stories.
Kentucky newspapers will notice the redesigned contest this fall when the changes take effect.
The 2002 KPA Better Newspaper Contest was judged April 11 by the Arkansas Press Association. Awards for that contest, the last BNC, will be presented Friday, June 21, during a banquet at the Gatlinburg Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort, headquarters for KPA during the Summer Convention.
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