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The Tennessee Press
Association Ideas Contest is an annual competition for advertising and
circulation departments. The awards are presented during the TPA Advertising/Circulation
Conference.
Ideas Contest deadline:
February 10, 2012
Ideas Contest
entry packet
2011
Ideas Contest winners
2010
Ideas Contest winners
2009
Ideas Contest winners
2008
Ideas Contest winners
2007
Ideas Contest winners
2006
Ideas Contest winners
2011 Ideas
Contest winners announced
Quentin Anthony and
Linda Bible from The Daily Times advertising department accept the 2011
Ideas Contest Best of Show Award.
Awards in the 2011
Tennessee Press Association Ideas Contest were presented on Friday, April
29, in conjunction with the Advertising/Circulation Conference in Nashville.
PDF list of winners
The Daily Times, Maryville, won the top prize—the Jack Freeland
Memorial Award Best of Show—for its ad, “Lots of Sweet Deals,”
entered in the Self Promotion of a Newspaper category.
Runners-up for 2011 were The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, for “Enrique’s
Journey,” an N.I.E. Promotion, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press
for its entry in Best Subscription Promotion.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press received the most awards, at 30, sweeping
the awards in its division for Best Feature Page or Pages, Best Furniture/Appliance
Ad, Best Rack Card and Self-Promotion of a Newspaper. The Daily Times
achieved the second highest number of awards at 29.
Members of the Georgia Press Association judged the contest on March 18
in Atlanta, Ga.
In all, 780 entries from 34 newspapers were submitted in the 2011 Ideas
Contest. The contest has 27 categories, with each divided into five circulation
divisions, two for non-dailies and three for dailies.
Jack Freeland, for whom the Best of Show Award was named, was advertising
manager of The Daily Herald, Columbia, and was active with the TPA Advertising
Committee.
The Ideas Contest was established in 1978. Proceeds help to offset the
speaker costs for the Advertising/Circulation Conference. All conference
attendees and Ideas Contest entrants will be sent a copy of the PowerPoint
presentation.
Roger Wells, The Lebanon Democrat, is the 2010-11 Advertising Committee
chairman and Don Lovelace, Citizen Tribune, Morristown, leads the Circulation
Committee.
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