DAILY NEWS SPORTS SECTION AMONG 10 BEST.Byline: Daily News REDONDO BEACH Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. - The nation's sports editors on Wednesday named the Daily News' daily sports section Noun 1. sports section - the section of a newspaper that reports on sports sports page - any page in the sports section of a newspaper newspaper, paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read as one of the 10 best in the country - a top honor in sports journalism Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events. While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department . The Daily News' Sunday sports section was named among the 20 best in the country, for newspapers its size. The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Sports Editors organization, meeting in Redondo Beach, named the top 10 and 10 runners-up for daily and Sunday sections. Last year the Daily News was a runner-up - named among the top 20 - in both categories. The results of the annual contest, judged by sports editors from many of the nation's newspapers, were announced by Don Skwar of the Boston Globe, APSE apse, the termination at the sanctuary end of a church, generally semicircular in plan but sometimes square or polygonal. The apse appeared early in Roman temples and basilicas; it was originally a semicircular recess with a half dome as ceiling and contained the contest chair. In addition to section honors, Daily News staff writer Jon Wilner earned a top-10 finish in the news story category for a piece on JaRon Rush and Jerome Moiso, the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX basketball players who turned pro. The APSE contest is broken into four circulation categories: under 40,000, 40,000-100,000, 100,000-250,000 - which includes the Daily News - and more than 250,000. ``The APSE awards recognize the team effort that goes into publishing a superior sports section every day,'' said David J. Butler, editor of the Daily News. ``These honors go to all of the members of our sports team: Executive Sports Editor Doug Jacobs and his talented group of editors, writers, copy editors, page designers, clerks and many others who strive to meet the varied interests of readers.'' Butler, who also is vice president/news for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group The Los Angeles Newspaper Group is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area by MediaNews Group. The news coverage of the newspapers are mainly local stories. , said that staff members at two Daily News sister papers in LANG also received much-deserved APSE honors. The Long Beach Press-Telegram's Mary Hancock Hinds, Steve Irvine, Ted Klan, Fausto Ramos, Joe Segura, Joe Stevens, Wendy Thomas Russell and Billy Witz (now of the Daily News) earned a top-10 finish in the investigative category for stories on Artesia High School's basketball recruiting problems. Also winning was the San Bernardino County Sun's Paul Oberjuerge, who was named among the 10 best in two categories, column writing and game story writing, for newspapers in the 40,000-100,000 category. |
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