Volunteer opportunity: Judge the Golden Quills Awards

Your help and expertise are needed as a judge for our sister chapter — the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania’s Golden Quill Awards. That chapter will be judging our Dateline Awards in exchange.

Judges will receive the entries and instructions shortly and results are due April 6. All judging will be done online through the Better Newspaper Contest platform. Serving as a  judge is very easy and fun, and you can judge as few or as many categories as you like.

Categories include:

  1. Enterprise/Investigative
  2. Spot/Breaking News
  3. News Feature
  4. Traditional Feature
  5. Public Affairs/Politics/Government
  6. Business/Technology/Consumer
  7. Medical/Health
  8. Science/Environment
  9. History/Culture
  10. Arts/Entertainment
  11. Lifestyle
  12. Education
  13. Sports
  14. Profiles
  15. Columns/Blogs
  16. Editorials

There’s also a student contest.


Want to volunteer?
Contact Jane Giles, SPJ DC Pro Dateline Awards Contest Coordinator,  datelinecoordinator@gmail.com by Tuesday, March 5.