There has been a lot of activity on the contest website during the past couple of weeks – thank you for your submissions! – but a high number of incomplete submissions remain and many questions about entries and the contest are being received, resulting in requests for a deadline extension.
To give everyone who needs it some extra time, we are extending the contest deadline until midnight, Monday, June 7. Thank you to all of you who have submitted entries or are still in the process of submitting. We appreciate your support – and can't wait to honor your work again this year.
Our judging partners this year are the Indiana Pro SPJ Chapter and the Press Club of Long Island.
Please take note of the following when submitting entries: - If you submit an entry that requires a password-protected URL to be accessed, there is a specific field for you to submit the user name/password information for judges.
- There is a field asking whose name(s) should appear on any award, as well as the name of the media outlet, should your entry receive an award. Thank you for paying close attention to this field and entering the information correctly. This will help avoid any errors when awards are created.
- Please be sure to submit your entry in the correct category. Large print categories are reserved for publications with circulation of 60,000 and higher; small print categories are reserved for publications with circulation of less than 60,000.
Our annual statewide contest is presented collaboratively by the Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland Pro Chapters of The Society of Professional Journalists and honors print, broadcast, digital, trade, freelance and college journalists in Ohio for their best work during 2020. Our contest is the only Ohio competition that honors journalists who fulfill the SPJ mission: defense of the First Amendment, support of literacy, resistance to censorship, advocacy for openness of public records and meetings, media self-criticism and community service. Our contest also recognizes the best college newspaper in the state.
We're always trying to increase submissions to our contest and add newcomers to our database for contest information and updates. So if you want, add the contact information of your colleagues and friends, who want to be added to our elist, or if they want to add themselves, here is the link.Thank you so much for your ongoing support of our contest. Proceeds are used to support student journalism scholarship programs at the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus Pro SPJ Chapters, as well as to help us provide programming for students and professional journalists throughout the state.
We look forward to receiving your entries.
QUESTIONS: For additional information, please visit our website – www.ohiospjawards.org – or contact:
Sarah Mills Bacha
614.563.1066
contact@ohiospjawards.org | 
