Updated April 8, 2022 The Contest Committee of the Nevada Press Foundation met twice via Zoom in the last six weeks and recommended a few modest changes in the rules for the 2022 Awards of Excellence competition. Those changes were approved by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The committee added …
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Here are the results of the 2021 Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence, honoring the best in Nevada journalism, advertising, design and photography. The top link (“Awards Tabloid”) is a PDF of the 24-page tabloid featuring the complete results along with judges’ comments as well as photos and graphics from …
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Here are the results of the 2020 Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence, honoring the best in Nevada journalism, advertising, design and photography. The top link (“Awards Tabloid”) is a PDF of the 24-page tabloid featuring the complete results along with judges’ comments as well as photos and graphics from …
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Nevada’s premier journalism contest has normally been called the Better Newspaper Contest, even though news websites and magazines joined the competition several years ago. The Nevada Press Association Awards Committee recently rectified that anomaly by renaming the contest the Awards of Excellence. The committee also made a made a few …
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Online Entry The Nevada Press Foundation sponsors the Awards of Excellence and uses an online entry and judging system hosted by SmallTownPapers, Inc. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com, where contestants go to submit their entries digitally. Seven categories still require hard copies to be mailed but even those must …
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Nevada Press members will be judging Utah Press Association contest entries in February, and we need volunteers to sign up now to help judge news, advertising, photo and design entries. All you need to do is shoot us an email at admin(at)nevadapress.com. We’ll contact you with the instructions. Judging will …
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The Nevada Press Association announced the winners of its 2019 Better Newspaper and Magazine Contest this evening in Ely at its annual awards banquet. The first-, second- and third-place winners in each category in both the journalism and advertising segments of the contest are listed below. The award-winning graphics and …
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Online Entry The Nevada Press Association uses an online entry and judging system through SmallTownPapers. The main contest page is betternewspapercontest.com. Rather than clipping stories, ads and photos, you upload files to a web site. A few categories, such as general excellence, still require the hard copy to be mailed …
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Welcome to the Better Magazine Contest Thanks for your interest in the magazines-only class in the Nevada Press Association contest. The categories are adapted from the Better Newspaper Contest to fit a magazine format. (Note that not every category available in the newspaper contest is available to magazines.) The class is …
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General Excellence Las Vegas Review-Journal Judge’s comment: The Review-Journal is the clear winner and obviously the “heavyweight” in this category. It’s obvious this paper has a much larger editorial staff, and it shows with a nice variety of local news, features and sports coverage. Although it pains a lifelong, die-hard …
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