Wanted: The year’s best international reporting

The National Press Club's annual Journalism Contest is seeking the best international coverage, both in print/online and broadcast, with the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.

Named for a distinguished diplomatic correspondent for The Associated Press and a founding member of the National Press Club, the award recognizes excellence in reporting on diplomatic and foreign policy issues. The entries must demonstrate an understanding of American foreign policy and how foreign affairs affect those policies.

The winner last year in the print/online category was “Impossible Dream: Rebuilding Afghanistan Amid Corruption, Nepotism and Mismanagement” by a team from McClatchy Newspapers. The winner for broadcast was “AIDS Funding: The Price of Success” by a team from the PBS Newshour.

The Hood 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 awards, click here.

The prize is $1,000 for each category of the Hood Award.

The Journalism Contest also includes awards for breaking news, political reporting, regional reporting on Washington, online 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, problems facing the elderly and humor writing.