Club wants to honor your best coverage of diplomatic and foreign policy issues

It’s time to select your best works covering diplomatic and foreign policy issues and submit them in the National Press Club’s annual journalism contest.

The best stories from 2020 in this category should be entered in the contest's competition for the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. Submission deadline is April 15.

Named for Edwin M. Hood, a distinguished diplomatic correspondent for The Associated Press and a founding member of the National Press Club, these awards recognize excellence in reporting on these issues. Entries must demonstrate an understanding of American foreign policy and how foreign affairs affect those policies.

Entries can be a single article or broadcast or a series of articles or broadcasts (maximum of 5) that will be judged as one unit. Include a letter detailing how and why the piece or series broke fresh ground or how it brought clarity and understanding of foreign policy issues to the U.S. audience.

There are prizes for print and broadcast. Winners in each category get $750. The cost of an entry is free for Club members, and $75 for non-members.

The contest also includes categories for consumer news, politics, online journalism, breaking news, photos, coverage of elderly issues, humor writing, stories about animals and their well-being, the media and other issues. The awards will be presented in an awards event this summer by the Club.

Details about the awards can be found here.