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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.

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2008 Ideas Contest Awards announced
Awards in the annual Tennessee Press Association Ideas Contest were presented Friday, April 11, in Gatlinburg in conjunction with the Advertising/Circulation Conference. List of winners

The Chattanooga Times Free Press won the top prize—the Jack Freeland Memorial Award Best of Show—for the entry of a series of subscription promotion ads. The judges’ comments included, “Novel idea that can work for any newspaper. Continuous cross promotion throughout the year with ongoing themes but consistent message—Subscribe.”

Runners-up were The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, for its “Elvis” Single Copy Promotion and the Overton County News, Livingston, for its “Santa’s Home Office” ad entered in the Best Use of Multi-Color category.

The Shelbyville Times-Gazette received the most awards at 27, sweeping the awards in its division for Best Feature Page, Best 1/4 Page or Smaller Ad, Single Copy Promotion and NIE Promotion. The Sparta Expositor achieved the second highest number of awards at 19.

Members of the Nebraska Press Association judged the contest entries March 7 in Lincoln.

A total of 1,270 entries was received from 43 newspapers. The contest has 27 categories, with each divided into five circulation divisions, two for non-dailies and three for dailies.

The Ideas Contest was established in 1978. The Ideas Contest proceeds help to offset the speaker costs for the Advertising/Circulation Conference. All conference attendees and Ideas Contest entrants will receive a CD of the PowerPoint presentation.

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.



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