2024 Iowa Better Newspaper Contests

Best Front Page ( Class V) Back

  • Place Name: First Place
    Contestant Name: Waterloo - The Courier
    Entry Title: Best Front Page
    Entry Credit: douglas hines, andrew wind
    Judge Comment: Clearly the best of the entries. These covers pack a lot of different elements and stories yet does not feel crowded at all. Packed with topics presented cleanly and definitely visually engaging. Lots of news but not bogged down or copy heavy in design. I enjoyed these.
  • Place Name: Second Place
    Contestant Name: Sioux City - Sioux City Journal
    Entry Title: Sioux City Journal
    Entry Credit: Staff
    Judge Comment: Some nice designs here, and well done. I like the creativity and the way designers avoided too much formula. Nice bold headlines make hierarchy clear.
  • Place Name: Third Place
    Contestant Name: Davenport - Quad-City Times
    Entry Title: Quad-City Times front pages
    Entry Credit: Staff
    Judge Comment: Appealing designs even within the front page formula I assume paginators are given. Good work with different skyboxes.