Post-Gazette sports section takes home APSE Top 10 honors

The Post-Gazette’s sports section was recently named one of the Top 10 print reports in the country in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors competition, and two of their reporters earned Top 10 honors in the explanatory story category.

The Post-Gazette’s print portfolio consisted of mandatory Sunday and daily sections as well as samples picked by the editorial staff. The annual high school football preview section was among the entries, as well as the PostGazette’s coverage of the Pitt volleyball team’s run to the NCAA Final Four.

Judging for the 2023 APSE contest took place in Orlando, Fla. Sports editors and journalists throughout the country voted on Top 10 awards in various writing, website, print newspaper and visual categories, which were split into four divisions based on newspaper circulation or digital readership size. The PG competed in the B Division.

Other newspapers finishing in the Top 10 in the B Division were: the Buffalo News, Louisville Courier Journal, Indianapolis Star, Omaha WorldHerald, Salt Lake Tribune, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Oklahoman of Oklahoma City, Knoxville ( Tenn.) News Sentinel and Las Vegas ReviewJournal. Honorable mentions went to the Block Communications-owned Toledo Blade, the Tennessean, Kansas City Star and Cincinnati Enquirer.

Reporters Noah Hiles and Chris Carter’s work explaining the seemingly abrupt exit of Pitt basketball’s Dior Johnson placed in the Top 10, as well. The duo dug through the school’s conduct policy and spoke with exclusive sources to get the details about why the team’s top recruit was dismissed from the program nearly a year after he was arrested for a serious domestic incident.