If you've not entered NPC Journalism Contest, deadline nears

The extended deadline is approaching for you to get those entries in for the  National Press Club's annual Journalism Contest.

The contest web page is open for your online entries, which includes a list of the categories. Entries should be submitted by Monday, May 17.

Along with the most popular awards categories such as consumer news and political news, the Club is  especially in the market for entries from young journalists, breaking news entries, humor writing  and news photos.

The Club is looking for the best work from 2020 from journalists 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. Details on the categories and the prizes are found on the contest web page.

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, one of the leading journalism organizations in the country for more than a century.

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 awards event planned for sometime this summer.