| | Awards for Excellence in Technology Journalism 
Entry Deadline: March 27, 2009
The Awards for Excellence in Technology Journalism are presented each year by the Public Relations Society of America's Technology Section and are intended to recognize journalists in general or business publications and technical/trade magazines and newsletters who have published articles that are valuable to their readers, show clarity in the communication and are significant in disclosing, explaining, interpreting and reporting innovation and recognizing newsworthiness. TWO WINNERS EACH RECEIVE $1,000 CASH PRIZE Two winners are chosen to receive a cash prize award of $1,000 and two crystal award trophies each, one for the journalist and one for display by each news organization that published a winning story. TWO AWARD CATEGORIES One award is presented to an individual for excellence in technology journalism in a general or business media source. A second award is presented to an individual for excellence in technology journalism in a trade, technical, industrial or professional publication serving a technology industry or audience.
AWARD RULES The awards competition is open to regularly employed members of the staffs of the respective publications and news outlets, and freelance writers who regularly write for such publications and meet all other requirements included in these guidelines. - The entrant’s name must appear in the masthead of the publication or carried as the byline, or be listed in the credits as producer of the segment.
- If the submitted material does not have an identifiable byline or if the entrant is not a regular staff member with an editorial title or function, the application and entry must be accompanied by a letter from the news outlet's editor or executive producer verifying the entrant as author or producer.
- Submissions must be an article or segment published or produced during the designated calendar year of the awards (for example, published in 2008 for the 2009 awards).
- Entries are limited to one (1) article per entrant, per category.
- Entrants must submit one (1) copy of the article in PDF format along with the application. Applications must be sent by e-mail to techawards@prsa.org
- Audio and video segments must be submitted in FLV format along with a written script or transcript in PDF format to techawards@prsa.org
- Columns may be submitted; however, three (3) to five (5) examples must be submitted to be judged as one entry. Single columns will not be accepted.
- Multipart features; If a series of two (2) to five (5) parts is submitted, such series may be submitted as a single entry.
- No books or entire issues of publications may be submitted.
- One prize is awarded in each category to an individual journalist and his or her publication or news outlet.
- Entries are judged by a panel consisting of at least five editors, representing the type of journalism practiced in each category.
- To avoid conflict of interests, judges will not be permitted to evaluate entries of their own, or of professional colleagues serving on their own publications. Entrants may not serve as judges in categories for which they are entrants or for which entries from the same publication have been submitted.
- In each of the two editorial categories, judging panels will select the most important and best written body of work based on a technology subject.
- The deadline for receipt of application and entry is March 27, 2009. Judging will take place in April and May 2009.
Please click here to download an entry form!
PAST WINNERS
2007
Steven Levy, senior editor, Newsweek
Rita Pyrillis, writer, FedTech
2006
Brian Grow, Atlanta correspondent, Business Week
Ben Elgin, San Mateo (Calif.) correspondent, Business Week
Erico Guizzo, associate editor, of IEEE Spectrum
2005
Tim Mullaney, e-business editor, BusinessWeek
Arlene Weintraub, science editor, BusinessWeek
Victoria Reitz, senior editor, Medical Design 2004
Christina Prier Steffy, associate editor of BioProcess International
Chris Taylor, San Francisco bureau chief of Time 2003
Lev Grossman, Time
Noah Rothbaum, SmartMoney
Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Linux World 2002
Steve Bass, PC World
Meredith Salisbury, Genome Technology 2001
No Awards Presented 2000
David S. Bernstein, Contract Professional William Van Winkle, Laptop Magazine 1999
Kevin Maney, USA Today
Pankaj Chowdry, PC Week 1998
Shaun Schafer, Tulsa (Oklahoma) World
Liz Levy, Imaging and Document Solutions Magazine 1997
Janet Rae-Dupree, San Jose Mercury News
Robin Gareiss, Data Communications Magazine 1996
Jeffrey Kutler, American Banker
Jaikumar Vijayan, COMPUTERWORLD |
