GRADUATION AWARD: The Richard J. Blood Award
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Richard J. Blood Award For Excellence in Reporting
DEADLINE: Noon, Monday, March 30
Seeking an unpublished investigative, hard-news or news feature story of publishable quality.
Please, no profiles.
- Submit one article of no more than 1,500 words. Please double-space entries, and note the word count alongside the headline.
- A winning entry will overflow with voices, specifics and solid attribution. Less is more: Leave in only the details that move the story forward. Make your copy lean, your prose sing and soar.
- Particular attention will be given to rigorously reported stories that have the potential to improve social conditions – stories that alert the community to a danger, explain human behavior, entertain, inform and educate.
- You are strongly encouraged to review the article with your instructor, incorporate any reporting/editing suggestions and rewrite it before submission.
The award is $500
Please submit SIX COPIES of your article to Claudia Castillo, Student Services Coordinator, Room 2m07A, by Noon, March 30.
Please note that the competition is for unpublished work, but that articles that have run on the ColumbiaJournalist.org ARE eligible.
We will announce the winner on Journalism Day
This award is administered by the Class of 1995 Blood Award committee: Stephanie Argy, Raney Aronson, Ellen Butler Bikales, Maria Sanminiatelli and Erin Texeira
*This award and Leslie Sander award [instructions distributed next week] are among the 30 or so M.S. graduation prizes awarded each year. Details and application instructions (for those that require submissions) will be distributed at a later date. These two, however, are judged by alumni committees so have earlier application deadlines.
