Tick, tock: Last chance to enter your work for the Joseph D. Ryle Award for excellence in writing on geriatrics

The National Press Club wants to honor your best work on problems facing the elderly with the Joseph D. Ryle Award for excellence for writing on the problems of geriatrics.

This award honors excellence and objectivity in coverage of the problems faced by the elderly. It is named in honor of Joseph D. Ryle, a longtime National Press Club member who left an endowment for the award. The award for print/online work has a first-place prize of $750.

Entries must be postmarked by April 2. Details of the contest can be found here.

Inside Edition won top honors last year for its reporting on insurance salesmen pressuring and persuading people on Medicare to buy annuities they do not need.

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