Better Newspapers Competition (BNC) General Excellence 2007


The following are the newspapers that won the 2007 General Excellence BNC. The presentation was made at the Association’s Spring Meeting in June 2008.
Entries submitted were for the weeks of: April 30-May 6; September 17-23, 2007.

 

Class A:  Under 1,299


Judge: Brad Dupuis, Shellbrook Chronicle

Best Front Page

  1. Ft Macleod Gazette
  2. Wainwight Review
  3. Elk Point Review


Best Sports Page

  1. Wainwright Review
  2. Ft Macleod Gazette
  3. Vauxhall Advance


Best Editorial Page

  1. Nanton News
  2. Ft Macleod Gazette
  3. Bashaw Star


Best All Around

  1. Ft Macleod Gazette
  2. Wainwright Review
  3. Nanton News

 

Class B:  1,300 - 1,999


Judge:  Terry Villeneuve, Meadow Lake Northern Pride

Best Front Page

  1. Wainwright Star Chronicle
  2. Grande Cache Mountaineer
  3. Crowsnest Pass Promoter


Best Sports Page

  1. Wainwright Star Chronicle
  2. High Prairie South Peace News
  3. Claresholm Local Press


Best Editorial Page

  1. Crowsnest Pass Promoter
  2. High Prairie South Peace News
  3. Ft. Smith Slave River Journal


Best All Around

  1. High Prairie South Peace News
  2. Wainwright Star Chronicle
  3. Ft. Simpson Deh Cho Drum

 

Class C:  2,000 – 3,499


Judge: Brad Brown, Kipling Citizen

Best Front Page

  1. Eckville Echo
  2. Vulcan Advocate
  3. Lacombe Globe


Best Sports Page

  1. Lacombe Globe
  2. Taber Times
  3. Lac La Biche Post


Best Editorial Page

  1. Taber Times
  2. Whitecourt Star
  3. Hinton Parklander


Best All Around

  1. Lacombe Globe
  2. Taber Times
  3. Vulcan Advocate

 

Class D:  3,500 – 6,499


Judges:  Janice Jewsbury and Lesley Shepard, Moose Jaw Times-Herald

Best Front Page

  1. Strathmore Standard
  2. Drumheller Valley Times
  3. Stettler Independent/ Yellowknife Yellowknifer


Best Sports Page

  1. St. Paul Journal
  2. Brooks Bulletin
  3. Beaumont News


Best Editorial Page

  1. Stettler Independent
  2. Brooks Bulletin
  3. Redwater Tribune/ Coaldale Sunny South News


Best All Around

  1. Yellowknife Yellowknifer
  2. Stettler Independent
  3. Beaumont News

 

Class E:  6,500 – 12,499


Judge: Marlene Gaudry, Estevan Mercury

Best Front Page

  1. Fort Saskatchewan Record
  2. Brooks & County Chronicle
  3. Cochrane Times


Best Sports Page

  1. Fort Saskatchewan Record
  2. High River Times
  3. Cochrane Times


Best Editorial Page

  1. Cochrane Times
  2. High River Times
  3. Wainwright Edge


Best All Around

  1. Cochrane Times
  2. Fort Saskatchewan Record
  3. High River Times

 

Class F:  12,500 and over


Judge: Kevin Weedmark, Moosomin World Spectator

Best Front Page

  1. St. Albert Gazette
  2. Red Deer Express
  3. St. Albert Saint City News


Best Sports Page

  1. Okotoks Western Wheel
  2. St. Albert Saint City News
  3. Sherwood Park News


Best Editorial Page

  1. Red Deer Express
  2. St. Albert Gazette
  3. St. Albert Saint City News/Irricana Rocky View Weekly


Best All Around

  1. St. Albert Gazette
  2. St. Albert Saint City News
  3. Red Deer Express

 

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