Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting 2025 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 20, 2025

Applications for the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting 2025 at the moment are open. The Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting acknowledge the perfect U.S. nationwide or native political reporting in any medium or on any platform—print, broadcast or on-line. They are named for late alumna Robin Toner ’76, the primary girl to function nationwide political correspondent for The New York Times.

Two prizes—the Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Local Political Reporting—are awarded yearly by the Newhouse School.

Benefits

• Two prizes might be given: One for nationwide and one for native political reporting. Each carries a $5,000 honorarium.

Eligibility

• Open to U.S.-based journalists.
• Entries have to be reality-primarily based reporting, not commentary. Single articles or a physique of labor are eligible. Each entry is proscribed to 4 tales. A information group could enter multiple reporter or group, however the identical reporter or group can be entered solely as soon as. Reporters could enter their very own work, however can enter solely as soon as.
• The work will need to have been reported, printed, posted or broadcast between January 1 and December 31, 2024. Books are ineligible. 

Judging Criteria

Entries might be judged on how effectively they replicate the excessive requirements and depth of reporting that marked Robin Toner’s work. In specific, the judges will have a look at how effectively the entries: 

• Illuminate the electoral course of, with a specific give attention to protection of candidates, campaigns and elections; or 
• Reveal the politics of coverage and 
• Engage the general public in democracy

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Toner Prize.