This category is for private and public television stations, webcasters, and podcasters. There are five awards available. Please see descriptions below and ensure you enter the proper category on your submission form.
07-BREAKING NEWS – These awards display the most skill in reporting a breaking news event. Breaking News applies to stories completed in response to an unanticipated event. Entrants are encouraged to include any digital elements to the stories which enhances the coverage. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story’ s chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete the story. The cameraperson and editor involved in the story can also be listed as a nominee along with the journalist.
08-ENTERPRISING REPORTING – These awards display initiative and show enterprise in journalism. Investigative journalism stories are welcome in this category. Continuing coverage of a breaking news event may also be entered here. Judges will look for enterprising journalism that goes beyond the obvious, the ordinary, the expected, and the regular. They will look for journalism that puts issues in context and in perspective and thereby makes those issues make sense. Entries should include an item, or a series of not more than three related stories that displays enterprise as well as depth and quality of research. The photojournalist/cameraperson and editor involved in the story can also be listed as a nominee along with the journalist. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story’s chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete the story.
09-FEATURE – These awards display excellence and creativity in the presentation of feature or human interest stories with journalistic merit. The entry can be the original item plus not more than three items if a series. The cameraperson and editor involved in the story can also be listed as a nominee along with the journalist. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story’s chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete.
10-NEWSCAST (TV) – Judges will look for the newscasts that have the best journalistic merit and which combine spot news, continuing coverage, feature, enterprise reporting and weather reporting into an informative newscast. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the newscast and how it developed. Details should include the newscasts chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete.
11-VIDEO JOURNALISM – The Videojournalist category is for journalists who are reporters, camera operators and editors. VJs should submit one “Show of Work” entry, which should consist of three different stories broadcast, webcast, or streamed during the calendar year. The judges will look for entries in which a journalist, acting as reporter, camera operator and editor, displays the most skill in reporting, shooting and editing a news story. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include its chronology and the circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete.