The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild

TNG-CWA, Local 32035

The Guild Forum Online

Electronic Newsletter of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 32035

Nov. 26, 2002

 

In This Issue:
Early, Early Deadline for Front Page Awards

Doesn't it seem that deadlines just keep getting earlier and earlier? Well, it's no exception with the annual Front Page Awards and Guild Service Awards sponsored by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild.

To honor the best work done in 2002, entries have to be received by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, at the Guild's Washington office, 1100 15th St. NW, Suite 350, Washington, DC 20005. You can mail it -- or deliver it in person yourself!

The entry rules are quite simple:
  • All entries are free.
  • You may enter up to three works in one category.
  • Judges have the right to move entries into different categories.
  • Judges also have the discretion to not confer an award in any category.
  • All work must have been published during the year 2002.
  • The Front Page Awards are open to all members of the Washington-Baltimore Guild, and to all who work under a Washington-Baltimore Guild contract. But only Guild members who win in their respective categories are eligible for the Grand Prizes in writing, photography and design.

Start leafing through your clip file (or your updated resume -- we won't tell!), for your best work done in 2002. And don't count on deadline extensions as in years past. We anticipate judging to be conducted in early February, with an awards ceremony very early in the spring.

There are two new categories this year: Best Page Design and, in a one-year-only nod to folks who withheld their bylines at the Washington Post in two highly successful byline strikes, Best Non-Bylined Reporting. To enter in the latter category, the entry MUST be accompanied by a signed declaration from a shop steward that the entry was indeed the work of the writer(s) who enter it.

Awards are given in several different categories of writing, photography and art; a full listing follows. Guild members who win in those categories are in line for one of three prestigious Grand Prizes:
  • The William Pryor Memorial Grand Prize for Writing.
  • The William Pryor Memorial Grand Prize for Photography.
  • The John Albano Memorial Grand Prize for Art.

Here are the categories you can enter:

WRITING
  • Morton Mintz Award for Investigative Reporting
  • Bernie Harrison Memorial Award for Commentary
  • Frank C. Porter Memorial Award for Labor and Business Reporting
  • Criticism
  • Feature Writing
  • Headline Writing
  • Local News Reporting
  • National News Reporting
  • Non-Bylined Reporting
  • Non-Daily Specialized Technical Reporting
  • Public Service Reporting
  • Sports Reporting
  • Unit Publication

PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Black & White Photography
  • Feature Photography
  • Local News Photography
  • National News Photography
  • Picture Story
  • Portrait Photography
  • Sports Photography

DESIGN
  • Advertising Design
  • Illustration Design
  • Labor Promotional Campaign
  • Marketing and Promotion Design
  • News Graphics Design
  • Page Design
  • Web Site Design

If you have any questions, call the Guild office at 202-785-3650.

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Guild Service Awards Honor the Best We Have to Offer

It used to be that the Washington-Baltimore Guild offered only two Guild Service Awards each year. But we've come to recognize the many kinds of service Guild activists give to each other and to the larger community. Now there are five Guild Service Awards:

  • The Dan de Souza Memorial Award for Member of the Year, honoring the memory of the Washington Newspaper Guild's first president, who perished in an auto accident while on a Christmas Eve mission to deliver donated toys to the children of strike newspaper workers in New Jersey.
  • The Nadine Grinder Memorial Award for Shop Steward of the Year, memorializing the tenacious shop steward at the Washington Post in the service of rank-and-filers.
  • Unit Officer of the Year, for which any elected officer in any of the Washington-Baltimore Guild's 23 bargaining units is eligible.
  • Organizer of the Year, which recognizes new-member and free-rider recruiting by a Guild member.
  • The Herb Block Community Service Award, for outstanding service in our community -- however narrowly or broadly you wish to define it. The labor community? The neighborhood community? The church community? Civic organizations? Some combination of these or other groups? You be the judge when you make your nomination.

Any Guild member in good standing may nominate any Washington-Baltimore Guild member for any one of these awards. Joint nominations are accepted as well. As with the Front Page Awards, there's an earlier deadline for the Guild Service Awards: 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 31, at the Guild's D.C. office , 1100 15th St. NW, Suite 350, Washington, DC 20005.

Guild Service Award honorees will be feted at the same reception as Front Page Award winners in the early spring.

 

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