Dornheim Award recognizes excellence in writing about aerospace, defense and airline industry

The National Press Club is recognizing the best reporting and writing about aerospace, defense and the airline industry with the Michael A. Dornheim Award. The award is presented to honor the career of the late Michael Dornheim, a longtime reporter and editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.

The award is among those in the Club's Journalism Contest. Deadline for entering the contest is April 1, so pick your entries and mail them soon! For information about the contest, click here. The prize for the winner is $1,000.

The winner of last year's Dornheim Award was Christopher Castelli of Inside The Pentagon for his reporting on the Defense Department's failure to put required cockpit voice recorders on V-22 Ospreys.

The Journalism Contest also includes awards for breaking news, political reporting, regional reporting on Washington, international coverage, consumer reporting, online journalism and newsletter journalism. It also includes a group of awards for areas as diverse as the news industry, problems facing the elderly and humor writing.