Enter your best 2020 work in Club's journalism contest by May 17

Time is running out to enter your best work from 2020 in the National Press Club Journalism contest.

The contest website is open for your online entries, which must be submitted by May 17.

Please consider whatever category works best for you from the list below. But several categories would benefit from your entries. We are especially eager to see your best work in:

Foreign news for the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence

Breaking news

News Photos

Humor Writing for the Angele Gingras Humor Award

Young journalists for the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism

All of the other categories welcome more entries.

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 younger journalists and Washington regional writers.

Most of the categories have cash prizes and some offer a year of free Club membership.

The entry fee is $75 for non-members and free for Club members. The contest offer 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. (print and broadcast)
• 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 (print and broadcast)
• Angele Gingras Humor Award;
• Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence in Writing on the Problems of Geriatrics.

The awards will be presented at an event planned for this summer.