By Tessa Meyers & Rebekah Miars
The Hornet
Saline MS
1st Place
Division MS, Yearbook Verbal
Y-07. Sidebar Coverage
Any coverage on a topic that adds to spread contents. Submit entire spread and CLEARLY INDICATE WHICH COVERAGE YOU WISH JUDGED by including the sidebar’s headline in the Additional Information field. Submit a PDF or image file of the page(s). FOR SPREADS (a spread is two facing pages), if possible save your entry as a spread, creating a single horizontal page out of two vertical pages. Otherwise, the judges may not see both pages of your spread together and will not get the full impact of your design.
JUDGING CRITERIA
- Sidebar should have its own mini-headline, which often verbally supports the theme statement
- Content is in a form that makes it appealing as well as easily accessible to the reader
- Evidence of adequate research
- Contents enhance spread coverage by adding meaningful information and/or insights
- Adheres to rules of good journalism including: short paragraphs, effective transitions and use of active voice, freedom from editorial comment, careful editing and proofreading to eliminate mechanical errors, correct use of grammar