2nd Place
Editorial
Anna Maria Della Costa, Joe Marusak
CMS Board of Education will meet Tuesday to fire superintendent
Breaking news competitions often center around shootings, plane crashes and weather emergencies, but Anna Maria Della Costa's story about the firing of a school superintendent hit the mark for covering a breaking and important news story. She was ahead of the story and clearly is an expert on her beat, providing solid background of the events that led the school board to fire him. She gave details of the contract buyout and provided commentary from multiple sides of the story.