We know that you’ve been anxiously waiting to test your mettle against the best non-daily journalists in the state, so wait no longer as all the material needed to enter SPJ’s 2011 Non-daily contest are posted below. The deadline is Jan. 13.
May the best win.
You’ll notice some changes to our awards categories this year. Don’t worry, there are still plenty of opportunities to win! (This is the non-daily contest; dailies, TV and radio journalists should seek out SPJ’s regional contest.)
Some changes we made for the sake of clarity. We renamed the former “Personalities” and “Best of Web” categories; you’ll find them now under “Profiles” and “Web-based Coverage.” We combined other categories that didn’t draw great interest on their own. The page design categories have been combined, and we now have one category for all columns of any topic, whether they’re general interest, sports, political or anything else.
A couple of categories are gone. “Headlines” and “Photo page/essay” never drew many entries, and we didn’t receive a single entry for “Funniest Gaffe” last year, so we cut that too. We expect you won’t miss it.
There’s one new category—”Campaign Coverage”—for all those political reporters out there who spent months following around would-be politicians, some who won and some who lost.
We welcome your ideas for any changes we might make next year, and good luck in 2012!
-Aaron Mesh, SPJ Chapter President
