Time to Get Your Entries Ready is Now! April 1 Deadline

The time to get your entries ready is now! The April 1 deadline for the National Press Club’s annual journalism contest is fast approaching.

The contest will honor entries for work done in 2014 for top news photo and top feature photo, breaking news competition for print/online and for broadcast and many other categories traditionally included in the contest.

The awards will be presented at a dinner at the Press Club this summer. Details on the different awards categories and how to enter the contest can be found at http://press.org/membership/awards

Entrants are encouraged to use the online entry method, but if you prefer, the Press Club will accept entries mailed in the traditional way as long as they are postmarked before the deadline. No matter which method, the most important thing is to make sure and enter your best journalism.

The National Press Club awards are intended to recognize the best in both traditional and newer forms of journalism. The competition offers journalists a chance to have their work recognized by the National Press Club, one of the leading journalism organizations in the country for more than a century.

The contest includes awards for 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 reporting on the welfare of animals, coverage of the journalism industry, the aviation industry, problems facing the elderly and humor writing.