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Contest\n\nAMERICAN NEWSPAPERPUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION  \n## PRIZE WINNING MONOGRAPHS SUBMITTEDIN 1950 ANPA JOURNALISM CONTEST\n\nJudge of the 1950 Contest:Dwight Young,Editorand Publisher,Dayton(Ohio)Journal Herald.  \nThe monographs in this contest were judgedbroadly,not narrowly.The prize winners wereselected on the basis of their individualistic ap-proach,their over-all excellence,and skill in ex-pression,not on the basis of their conformity withthe personal views of the judge.In the truespirit of a\"free press\"there are in these win-ning essays minor points regarding which thejudge might not agree with the authors.How-ever,taking each of these monographs as a whole,they represent high grade thinking and high gradewriting with an inspiring quality.  \n\n| Distributed By  \u003Cbr>AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN.  \u003Cbr>370 LEXINGTON AVE.  \u003Cbr>NEW YORK 17,N.Y.   |\n| --- |\n\nFOREWORD  \nFor forty years I have been\"judging\"various contests inwriting.It is no easy experience for me.Perhaps my greatestdifficulty in determining who are the“winners”is to be found inthe fact that I have retained quite vivid recollections of my ownearly ambition to write and the discouragements I encountered.Much of my time accordingly has been given in recent years toconsultations with young men and women who have \"the greaturge”to write and who are in quest of beginners'jobs in news-paper editorial departments.  \nJudging this particular contest was no less difficult thanthe others.  I am grateful to the preliminary judges whoscreened the monograms to 28.There should have been only  \n26,but two of these judges obviously found it impossible toeliminate down to two,so they each sent me three!Althoughthe screening judges had indicated in most instances theirfirst and their second choices,I deliberately removed all dis-tinguishing marks from the essays before I began reading them.I did not desire to run the risk of being swayed unconsciouslyby another's opinion.  \nIn my first reading I designated 10 of the 28 theses ascandidates for first place.I read and reread those ten threetimes before selecting the one to which I have accorded firstplace.It was as difficult to pick No.2 and then No.3 as ithad been to decide upon No.1.  \nThen I carefully went back through the 18 that had beeneliminated after my first reading in an effort to be certain Ihad made no mistake.  \nEven with all this painstaking and time-consuming detail,I am painfully conscious that another final judge might havemade different selections.  \nThe subject,“The Public's Stake In Full Freedom of Infor-mation”,is sufficiently broad and intriguing to give almostunlimited scope as to method of treatment.Most of the con-testants chose the more formal editorial approach.The factthat in the last analysis I discarded these theses,despite theirauthors'excellent handling of the theme,in favor of three thatstruck out along less conventional and more individualisticlines,must not be taken as any reflection on the quality ofthose essays.I think perhaps the determining factor may havebeen this:That the most useful and influential writers arethose who have the knack of forming their thoughts into wordsand sentences that will at once arouse and hold the reader'sinterest.  \nAnyhow that is the type of writers most of us seek todevelop on our newspapers.  \nI am happy to have had the privilege of this interestingexperience.I congratulate the 28 entrants whose essays I waspermitted to read and enjoy,the Schools of Journalism wherethey are enrolled as students,and the American NewspaperPublishers Association for sponsoring this interesting adven-ture in the field of better newspaper writing.  \nDwight Young  \nFIRST PRIZE  \n## Winner of the Gold Medal and the $500Cash Prize\n\nTHE PUBLIC’S STAKE IN FULL FREEDOMOF INFORMATION.  \nBy EVAN HILL,Student at Boston UniversityDivision of Journalism,Boston,Massachusetts.  \nThe road narrowed to a r","cbCaiaPiBcsgzA5A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaPiBcsgzA5A","pdf",611130,"English","# PRIZE WINNING ESSAYS\n## Journalism Contest\n## Prize Winning Monographs Submitted in 1950 ANPA Journalism Contest\n## Foreword\n## Winner of the Gold Medal and the $500 Cash Prize","[{\"question\":\"Which essay won the gold medal and $500 cash prize?\",\"answer\":\"The gold medal and $500 cash prize went to “THE PUBLIC’S STAKE IN FULL FREEDOM OF INFORMATION,” by EVAN HILL.\"}]","The Public's Stake In FullFreedom of Information - PRIZE WINNING ESSAYS | PDF",1789963021,31]