Get your best, most creative online journalism entered in Club contest

Those who have done the most innovative online journalism in 2017 should enter their work in the competition for the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award. The deadline has been extended to Monday, April 16.

The winner of this National Press Club award will have done original reporting and have taken advantage of online technology, such as interactive databases, primary-source interviews, and accompanying charts and graphs, in order to provide a thorough and graphically attractive report.

This award is intended to recognize the best journalism that uses online technology to provide a more compelling report than a print or broadcast story alone. The prize for the winner is $750.

This award is named in memory of Joan M. Friedenberg, founding editor of the Online Newshour and wife of former Club President Jonathan D. Salant, and is funded by donations from Joan's friends and family.

Both online-only reports and sites that accompany print or broadcast stories are eligible; in the latter case, entrants must show how they used online content to enhance the print and broadcast reports.

The entries can be submitted online or by the more traditional method of mailing them in. The winner will be honored at a dinner at the Club this summer. The entry fee is $50, but entries may be submitted for free by Club members.

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