Time to enter your best political stories in Press Club contest

If you write about politics and have some good analysis stories from 2019, please enter them in the contest for the National Press Club's Lee Walczak Award for political analysis.

 

The cost of an entry is free for Club members and $75 for non-members.The deadline is June 30. Send your entry in online, or if you prefer, it can be mailed in to the Club, as long as it is mailed by the deadline

 

This award is named in memory of Lee Walczak, a Washington editor, bureau chief and White House correspondent who worked for Bloomberg News and Business Week, and recognizes excellence in political analysis. There is a $750 cash prize for the winner.

 

The entry should be one article or a series of no more than three articles on a consistent topic. Judges will consider entries that, like Walczak's work, explain why things happen by describing new developments, putting them in context and forecasting the outcome.

 

The Press Club contest also includes categories for consumer news, politics, online journalism, breaking news, photos, coverage of elderly issues, humor writing, stories about animals and their well-being, the media and other issues. Details of the awards can be found online.

 

The awards hopefully will be presented later this summer at the Club, depending on conditions.