This year's International News Story Contest resulted in eight entries. The Judges for the contest were Terry Scott Bertling, Assistant Managing Editor for features San Antonio Express-News and Larry Carlson, Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University—San Marcos. Entries were from the University of Colorado—Boulder; University of Arizona; York College, CUNY, New York; Centralia College, Washington; and Manipal Institute of Communication, India. Below are the first, second and third place winners.