Awards
he Committee to Protect Journalists is launching the Steiger Fellowship program to give budding journalists an opportunity to contribute to the defense of press freedom and learn about the challenges journalists face around the world.
The Boston Globe won six national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced that a team of Times-Picayune reporters has won the June Sidney award for Louisiana INCarcerated, an 8-part series that investigates how for-profit prisons, long sentences, and a broken pardon system have yielded the highest incarceration rate in the nation.
Unique among major journalism prizes for including all branches of the media, competition for $10,000 in local, national and international reporting is limited to journalists under the age of 35.
‘Our Dying Forests’ project singled out as best in nation.
Judges named the FT winner in the ‘audience measurement’ category for its Average Daily Global Audience (AGDA) metric, a pioneering audience measure that counts number of people globally who read FT journalism in print and online, as well as ‘cross media’ category for the Integration Initiative.
Evergreen Printing Company is proud to announce that The Graphic Arts Association has selected four entries as “Best of Category” for the Neographics 2012 print competition. “Best of Category” honors were given for Backstage, International Herald Tribune, Philadelphia Business Journal and Politico.
Massoud Hossaini from Afghanistan won first prize in the "International News" category for a photograph of a little girl dressed in green crying in the midst of the victims of an attack in Kabul on 6 December 2011 that left 80 dead and 150 wounded.
Judges hailed the growing role of online media in the 2011 Harold Wincott Awards for financial journalism, announced on Thursday.
Nigel Jacquiss of Willamette Week has won the Bruce Baer Award – Oregon’s top prize for investigative reporting.
Freelance journalists Matthew LaPlante and Rick Egan and the founders of the Yancey County News, Jonathan and Susan Austin, were presented the 2012 Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism yesterday at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
Monterey County Weekly took home the award for First Place, General Excellence in the 2011 Better Newspaper Competition for weekly papers with a circulation over 25,000.
Postmark deadline for entries: June 22.