The Minnesota Star Tribune earns Grand Slam honors, 11 top 10s in Associated Press Sports Editors journalism contest

The Minnesota Star Tribune earned 11 Top 10 honors for work published in 2024 from Associated Press Sports Editors in the top national sports journalism contest.

Four of those top 10s came in the categories needed to win the top honor, a Grand Slam award: print portfolio, digital portfolio, event coverage and projects.

The Star Tribune joins the Boston Globe and the Washington Post as Grand Slam winners in Division A, which is composed of the largest news organizations.

In the event category, the Star Tribune was honored for its coverage of the first round of the NFL draft, in which the Vikings selected quarterback J.J. McCarthy and edge rusher Dallas Turner. In the projects category, Chip Scoggins earned one of his two top 10s for his “Getting Ready for Work” series.

Scoggins also placed in the top 10 in the long feature category for his story on Duluth Marshall basketball star Chloe Johnson; the accompanying video about Johnson by Amanda Anderson also received a citation for excellence in video.

The Star Tribune’s Vikings coverage collected three top 10s overall. In addition to the staff coverage of the NFL draft, Ben Goessling was selected top 10 for his beat writing portfolio and Goessling and Andrew Krammer were recognized in breaking news for their story on the death of rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson. Bob Timmons earned top 10 honors in the explanatory category for his reporting and retelling of a Boundary Waters canoe accident and search-and-rescue operation.

Photos by Carlos Gonzalez and Alex Kormann were among the top 10 in the feature photography category in Division A, and the print special section about the Minnesotans competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics was named top 10 in a combined A/B Division.

Entries were judged over the past month by more than 100 sports journalists from around the country. Results were announced last week during the APSE’s annual winter meeting in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Star Tribune also won Grand Slam honors in 2016 and ′22.

Winners in the writing and photography categories will be announced in the coming weeks. They will receive their awards at the APSE summer conference, scheduled for June 26-28 in Minneapolis.