The Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) sports department received national top-10 recognition from the Associated Press Sports Editors for its Hoops! section previewing the college basketball season. The award was given in the 30,000-75,000 circulation category for special sections.
Hoops! annually previews the Bradley Braves, Peoria’s hometown team, with features and columns, in addition to Illinois, Illinois State, Western Illinois and Illinois Central College, plus Missouri Valley, Big Ten and Mid-Continent conferences.
This year, with a change in coaching staffs at Bradley, we added space to the section and produced content around a theme of rebuilding. The Bradley campus is in the midst of major building projects, so we posed the team in front of a construction site, with new coach Geno Ford unfolding the blueprints for his program. The theme extended to other stories, including focus on new recruits, new starts for a couple of fifth-year seniors and a mostly new staff of assistant coaches.
“I’m very proud of everyone on our staff,” sports editor Kirk Wessler said. “Everybody contributed to this section in some fashion, directly or indirectly. The quality is reflective of what we do here every single day.”
The section was designed and edited by Wes Huett. Stories were written by Kevin Capie, Jane Miller, Dave Reynolds, Bo Ryan, Hayden Shaver, John Supinie and Kirk Wessler. Photographers on the project were Adam Gerik, Ron Johnson and Fred Zwicky.
View section cover and two other sample pages:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82303950/111011PJSBRD1STE01
The Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) sports department received national top-10 recognition from the Associated Press Sports Editors for its Hoops! section previewing the college basketball season. The award was given in the 30,000-75,000 circulation category for special sections.
Hoops! annually previews the Bradley Braves, Peoria’s hometown team, with features and columns, in addition to Illinois, Illinois State, Western Illinois and Illinois Central College, plus Missouri Valley, Big Ten and Mid-Continent conferences.
This year, with a change in coaching staffs at Bradley, we added space to the section and produced content around a theme of rebuilding. The Bradley campus is in the midst of major building projects, so we posed the team in front of a construction site, with new coach Geno Ford unfolding the blueprints for his program. The theme extended to other stories, including focus on new recruits, new starts for a couple of fifth-year seniors and a mostly new staff of assistant coaches.
“I’m very proud of everyone on our staff,” sports editor Kirk Wessler said. “Everybody contributed to this section in some fashion, directly or indirectly. The quality is reflective of what we do here every single day.”
The section was designed and edited by Wes Huett. Stories were written by Kevin Capie, Jane Miller, Dave Reynolds, Bo Ryan, Hayden Shaver, John Supinie and Kirk Wessler. Photographers on the project were Adam Gerik, Ron Johnson and Fred Zwicky.
View section cover and two other sample pages:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82303950/111011PJSBRD1STE01
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82305671/111011PJSBRD1STE04
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82306144
