The Editor’s Desk

The voting for the last monthly headline contest of 2007 is done. Here are the winners from the in-house vote.

First place was written by copy desk chief Michael Roehrman.

How the West is
won: at auction

That headline appeared with a story about the first of five auctions for selling the contents of Wild West World.

Second place went to assistant sports editor Tom Seals.:

Buck-to-buck records

That one was placed above an Outdoors story about a hunter from Satanta who took two trophy animals, a mule deer and an antelope, in the space of five days.

Third place went to copy editor Jennifer Comes.

A distant war,
an intimate grief

This was with the first story in a series of four about the Kansas National Guard’s Bravo Battalion in Iraq and family members at home.

Readers of the Editor’s Desk picked the same headline for first place and tied three for second place.

The online picks for No. 2:

A distant war,
an intimate grief

Young Hopes
for Old Mill

Snow stops city cold

Now that the December headlines have been picked, the 12 monthly winners will be entered into a Best of The Eagle contest for 2007.

See a headline you like or think is noteworthy? I would love to hear from you.