Dear Fellow Journalist,
Your expertise is needed again this year as our DC Pro Chapter will judge the Keystone Pro Chapter’s contest (encompassing Pennsylvania and New Jersey chapters). Keystone will in turn judge our Dateline Awards contest entries.
Keystone’s contest ends mid-February. Judges will receive assignments and instructions in early March and results will be due April 2. All judging will be done online through the BNC contest platform. It’s easy, and you can take on as few or as many categories as you like.
The categories are below. Please feel free to indicate ones you might be most interested in judging, although we cannot guarantee all preferences can be honored. Keystone expects up to 200 entries.
Please let me know by February 28.
Thank you in advance for volunteering for this fun and important project, and for helping identify and reward excellence in journalism.
Jane
Jane Giles
SPJ Dateline Awards Contest Coordinator
datelinecoordinator@gmail.com
KEYSTONE PRO CONTEST CATEGORIES
NOTE: If it does not say daily and non-daily or there is no (b) after the number, the category is only open to dailies.
01a SPOTLIGHT AWARD: The chapter’s most prestigious award, for an investigative story or series.
02a NEWS PAGE DESIGN
03a BUSINESS AND LABOR REPORTING (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
04a BLOG (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
05a EDITORIAL WRITING (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
06a ENTERPRISE REPORTING (DAILY)
06b ENTERPRISE REPORTING (NON-DAILY)
07a ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
08a FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY (DAILY)
08b FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY (NON-DAILY)
09a FEATURE STORY (DAILY)
09b FEATURE STORY (NON-DAILY)
010a HEADLINE WRITING (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
011a HEALTH and MEDICAL REPORTING (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
012a WEB USE (DAILY only)
013a NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY (DAILY)
013b NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY (NON-DAILY)
014a ONLINE BREAKING NEWS
015a PHOTO STORY (DAILY)
15b PHOTO STORY (NON-DAILY)
016a SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
017a SPORTS NEWS and/or EVENT COVERAGE
018a SPOT NEWS (DAILY)
019a BEST OVERALL NEWSPAPER (DAILY)
19b. BEST OVERALL NEWSPAPER (NON-DAILY)
020a LIFESTYLE / ENTERTAINMENT (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
021a SPORTS FEATURE (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
022a FEATURE PAGE DESIGN
023a SPORTS PAGE DESIGN
024a GRAPHIC / ILLUSTRATION (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
025a SPORTS / OUTDOOR COLUMN (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
026a COLUMN (DAILY or NON-DAILY)
027a PODCASTS
028a EDUCATION (DAILY or NON-DAILY)