Last chance to enter Club's journalism contest
You have the weekend and Monday to enter your best work from 2020 in the National Press Club journalism contest.
All the categories are listed below, but we are especially interested in stories about foreign news (the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence); breaking news; news photos; humor writing (the Angele Gingras Humor Award); and stories by young journalists (the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism).
See if your best work fits better in the categories below. Visit the contest webpage for more details and to submit your entries. The deadline is May 17.
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 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 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 this summer.