Showing off sweepstakes awards in the North and East Texas Press Association Better Newspaper Contest are (from left) Santana Gallacher accepting for the Longview News Journal in Division 1; Jeff Pownall accepting for the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel in Division 2; Meredith Shamburger accepting for the Kilgore News Herald in Division 3; Abigail Allen, Pilot Point Post Signal in Division 4; and Wyndi Veigel, The Dublin Citizen in Division 5. The awards presentation capped the 96th NETPA convention in Nacogdoches.
Download PDF of Winners Circle designed by Wyndi Veigel and printed by the Hood County News
Sweepstakes Winners
Division 1 – Daily Division
Third place with 875 points – Marshall News Messenger
Second place with 1,000 points – Tyler Morning Telegraph
Winner with 1,175 points – Longview News-Journal
Division 2 – Large Semi-Weekly Division
4th place with 625 points Hood County News
3rd place with 650 points Lufkin Daily News
2nd place with 675 Wise County Messenger
Winner with 1,000 points – Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
Division 3 – Small Semi-Weekly Division
4th place with 400 points Henderson Daily News
3rd place with 500 points Greenville Herald-Banner
2nd place with 775 points Panola Watchman
Winner with 825 points Kilgore News-Herald
Division 4 – Large Weekly
4th place with 225 points Van Zandt News
3rd place with 325 points Azle News
2nd place with 850 points Wood County Monitor
Winner with 1,275 points Pilot Point Post-Signal
Division 5 – Small Weekly
4th place with 400 points Pittsburg Gazette
3rd place with 525 points Gladewater Mirror
2nd place with 725 points Bowie County Citizens Tribune
Winner with 1,050 points The Dublin Citizen
Journalist of the Year Combined Division
1st place: Jo Lee Ferguson/Longview News-Journal
2nd place: Jess Huff/Lufkin Daily News
3rd place: Jessica Payne/Tyler Morning News
4th place: Paul Gaudette/The Dublin Citizen
Photographer of the Year Combined Category
1st place: Les Hassell/Longview News-Journal (Division 1)
2nd place: Josh Edwards/The Daily Sentinel (Division 2)
3rd place: Sam Major/Wood County Monitor (Division 4)
4th place: Mary Vinson/Hood County News (Division 2)
ADVERTISING
Division 1
- 1st: Tyler Morning Telegraph
- 2nd: Marshall News Messenger
Division 2
- 1st: Hood County News
- 2nd: Lufkin Daily News
- 3rd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 4th: Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
Division 3
- 1st: Kilgore News Herald
- 2nd: Panola Watchman
- 3rd: Henderson Daily News
Division 4
- 1st: Van Zandt News
- 2nd: Azle News
- 3rd: The Terrell Tribune
- 4th: Pilot Point Post-Signal
Division 5
- 1st: Gladewater Mirror
- 2nd: Light and Champion
- 3rd: Canton Herald
- 4th: Pittsburg Gazette
COLUMN WRITING
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News Journal/Jack Stallard
- 2nd: Marshall News Messenger/Dawn Dillard
- 3rd: Tyler Morning Telegraph/Brandon Ogden
- 4th: Marshall News Messenger/Nathan Hague
Division 2
- 1st: Nacodoches Daily Sentinel/Josh Edwards
- 2nd: Lufkin Daily News/Jackie Zimmerman
- 3rd: Gatesville Messenger/Sam Houston
- 4th: Nacodoches Daily Sentinel/Nathan Hague
Division 3
- 1st: Kilgore News Herald/Jase Graves
- 2nd: Henderson Daily News/Katy Mirtz-Myers
- 3rd: Henderson Daily News/Amber Lollar
- 4th: Panola Watchman/J.B. Morris
Division 4
- 1st: Wood County Monitor/Phil Major
- 2nd: Pilot Point Post -Signal/Abigail Allen and Jack O’ Conner
- 3rd: Azle News/Don Munsch
Division 5
- 1st: Dublin Citizen/Paul Gaudette
- 2nd: Gladewater Mirror/Jim and Suzanne Bardwell
- 3rd: Dublin Citizen/Wyndi Veigel
- 4th: Quanah Tribune Chief/Karen Lance
EDITORIALS
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News-Journal
- 2nd: Tyler Morning Telegraph
Division 2
- 1st: Lufkin Daily News
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
Division 3
- 1st: Greenville Herald Banner
- 2nd: Weatherford Democrat
- 3rd: Gainesville Daily Register
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot-Point Post-Signal
Division 5
- 1st: Quanah Tribune Chief
- 2nd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
- 3rd: Gladewater Mirror
FEATURE PHOTO
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News-Journal/ Michael Cavazos and Les Hassell
- 2nd: Tyler-Morning Telegraph/Ana Conejo
- 3rd: Marshall News Messenger/Alexander Gould and Meredith Shamburger
Division 2
- 1st: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel/Josh Edwards
- 2nd: Wise County Messenger/Austin Jackson
- 3rd: Gatesville Messenger/David Scott
- 4th: Hood County News/Mary Vinson
Division 3
- 1st: Weatherford Democrat/Sally Sexton
- 2nd: Palestine Herald Press/Stuart Whitaker
- 3rd: Greenville Herald-Banner/Laurie White King
- 4th: Kilgore News Herald/ Les Hassell and Sadiq King
Division 4
- 1st: Wood County Monitor/Sam Major and John Arbter
- 2nd: Pilot-Point Signal/Abigail Allen
Division 5
- 1st: Dublin Citizen/Wyndi Veigel and Paul Gaudette
- 2nd: Gladewater Mirror/Jim Bardwell
- 3rd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune/Allyson Pebsworth and Heather Russell
- 4th: Quanah Tribune-Chief/ Shane Lance
FEATURE STORY
Division 1
- 1st: Marshall News Messenger
- 2nd: Longview News-Journal
- 3rd: Tyler Morning-Telegraph
Division 2
- 1st: Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune
- 2nd: Wise County Messenger
- 3rd: Gatesville Messenger
- 4th: Hood County News
Division 3
- 1st: Palestine Herald Press
- 2nd: Greenville Herald-Banner
- 3rd: Kilgore News Herald
- 4th: Corsicana Daily Sun
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot-Point Post-Signal
- 2nd: Azle News
Division 5
- 1st: Pittsburg Gazette
- 2nd: Springtown Epigraph
- 3rd: Canton Herald
- 4th: Gladewater Mirror
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Division 1
- 1st: Tyler Morning Telegraph
- 2nd: Longview News-Journal
Division 2
- 1st: Wise County Messenger
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Lufkin Daily News
- 4th: Gatesville Messenger
Division 3
- 1st: Weatherford Democrat
- 2nd: Kilgore News Herald
- 3rd: Corsicana Daily Sun
- 4th: Panola Watchman
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot-Point Post-Signal
- 2nd: Wood County Monitor
- 3rd: The Terrell Tribune
- 4th: Van Zandt News
Division 5
- 1st: Dublin Citizen
- 2nd: Bowie County Citizens Tribune
- 3rd: Canton Herald
- 4th: Pittsburg Gazette
HEADLINE WRITING
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News-Journal
- 2nd: Tyler Morning Telegraph
- 3rd: Marshall News Messenger
Division 2
- 1st: Hood County News
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Paris News
- 4th: Lufkin Daily News
Division 3
- 1st: Panola Watchman
- 2nd: Henderson Daily News
- 3rd: Kilgore News Herald
- 4th: Greenville Herald-Banner
Division 4
- 1st: Wood County Monitor
- 2nd: Pilot-Point Post Signal
Division 5
- 1st: Dublin Citizen
- 2nd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
- 3rd: Pittsburg Gazette
- 4th: Quanah Tribune-Chief
PAGE DESIGN
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News-Journal
- 2nd: Marshall News Messenger
Division 2
- 1st: Hood County News
- 2nd: Nocogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Lufkin Daily News
- 4th: Wise County Messenger
Division 3
- 1st: Panola Watchman
- 2nd: Kilgore News-Herald
- 3rd: Greenville Herald-Banner
- 4th: Weatherford Democrat
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot Point Post-Signal
- 2nd: Van Zandt News
- 3rd: The Terrell Tribune
Division 5
- 1st: The Dublin Citizen
- 2nd: Canton Herald
- 3rd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
NEWS PHOTO
Division 1
- 1st: Longview News-Journal
- 2nd: Marshall News Messenger
- 3rd: Tyler Morning Telegraph
Division 2
- 1st: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 2nd: Lufkin Daily News
- 3rd: Wise County Messenger
- 4th: Hood County News
Division 3
- 1st: Kilgore News Herald
- 2nd: Panola Watchman
- 3rd: Greenville Herald-Banner
- 4th: Henderson Daily News
Division 4
- 1st: Wood County Monitor
- 2nd: Pilot-Point Post-Signal
Division 5
- 1st: Bowie County Citizens Tribune
- 2nd: The Dublin Citizen
- 3rd: Gladewater Mirror
- 4th: Pittsburg Gazette
SPORTS WRITING
Division 1
- 1st: Tyler Morning News
- 2nd: Longview News-Journal
- 3rd: Marshall News Messenger
Division 2
- 1st: Gatesville Messenger
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Wise County Messenger
- 4th: Hood County News
Division 3
- 1st: Corsicana Daily Sun
- 2nd: Panola Watchman
- 3rd: Gainesville Daily Register
- 4th: Weatherford Democrat
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot-Point Post- Signal
- 2nd: Azle News
Division 5
- 1st: The Dublin Citizen
- 2nd: Pittsburg Gazette
- 3rd: Canton Herald
- 4th: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
Division 1
- 1st: Marshall News Messenger
- 2nd: Longview News-Journal
- 3rd: Tyler Morning Telegraph
Division 2
- 1st: Wise County Messenger
- 2nd: Hood County News
- 3rd: Lufkin Daily News
- 4th: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
Division 3
- 1st: Greenville Herald-Banner
- 2nd: Kilgore News Herald
- 3rd: Panola Watchman
- 4th: Henderson Daily News
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot Point Post-Signal
- 2nd: Wood County Monitor
Division 5
- 1st: Gladewater Mirror
- 2nd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
- 3rd: Quanah Tribune-Chief
- 4th: Canton Herald
SPORTS COVERAGE
Division 1
- 1st: Tyler Morning Telegraph
- 2nd: Longview News-Journal
- 3rd: Marshall News Messenger
Division 2
- 1st: Lufkin Daily News
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Hood County News
- 4th: Wise County Messenger
Division 3
- 1st: Panola Watchman
- 2nd: Kilgore News Herald
- 3rd: Henderson Daily News
Division 4
- 1st: Pilot Point Post-Signal
- 2nd: Wood County Monitor
Division 5
- 1st: The Dublin Citizen
- 2nd: Pittsburg Gazette
- 3rd: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
- 4th: Quanah Tribune Chief
NEWS WRITING
Division 1
- 1st: Marshall News Messenger
- 2nd: Tyler Morning Telegraph
- 3rd: Longview News-Journal
Division 2
- 1st: Wise County Messenger
- 2nd: Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel
- 3rd: Gatesville Messenger
- 4th: Hood County News
Division 3
- 1st: Corsicana Daily Sun
- 2nd: Panola Watchman
- 3rd: Henderson Daily News
- 4th: Kilgore News Herald
Division 4
- 1st: Wood County Monitor
- 2nd: Pilot Point Post-Signal
- 3rd: Azle News
Division 5
- 1st: Bowie County Citizen Tribune
- 2nd: Canton Herald
- 3rd: The Dublin Citizen
- 4th: Quanah Tribune-Chief
Community Service – Combined Division
- 1st: Lufkin Daily News (Division 2)
- 2nd: Dublin Citizen (Division 5)
- 3rd: Longview News-Journal (Division 1)
Special Section Combined Category
- 1st: Tyler Morning-Telegraph (Division 1)
- 2nd: Van Zandt News (Division 4)
- 3rd: The Lufkin Daily News ( Division 2)
- 4th: The Terrell Tribune (Division 4)