Enter your best 2020 coverage in Club's annual journalism awards contest
The time has come to prepare your entries for the National Press Club journalism contest. The awards page is open to receive your online entries. Submit early and often, but definitely by the April 15 deadline.
The Club is looking for the best work from 2020 by those covering consumer news, politics, creative online journalism, challenges for older people, animal rights and their treatment, foreign coverage, aviation and technological issues, excellent newsletter work and humor writing, as well as entries submitted by younger journalists and Washington regional writers.
Most of the categories have cash prizes, and some offer a year of free Club membership. Details on the categories and the prizes are available online. The entry fee is $75 for non-members, and free for Club members.
The contest offers journalists a chance to have their work recognized by the Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists.
The awards in the contest go to winners in these categories:
- Breaking news (broadcast and print)
- Consumer journalism (newspapers, periodicals and broadcast)
- News photography
- Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism (broadcast and print)
- Washington regional reporting
- Newsletter journalism
- Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award
- Michael Dornheim Award for coverage of defense, aerospace or the airline industry
- Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis
- Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award (broadcast and print)
- Angele Gingras Humor Award
- Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics
- Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism (reporters age 34 and younger)
- Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.
The awards will be presented at an awards ceremony this summer.