Submit your best work of 2020 to the Club journalism contest by April 15
The National Press Club journalism contest is accepting your best work of 2020 until April 15.
The Club is looking for the best work from 2020 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.
Along with the most popular awards categories, such as consumer news and political news, we are especially in the market for entries about coverage of the media (the Rowse award) humor writing (the Gingras award) and news photos.
Most of the categories have cash prizes and some offer a year of free Club membership. Details on the categories and the prizes are here. 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 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.