Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism 2023 ($1,000 Award)
Deadline: 5th of May, 2023
The Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in Florida is being offered in 2023, and submissions are being accepted by the Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications at the University of South Florida.
The prize honors outstanding instances of reporting and analysis on environmental problems in Florida. Friends of Waldo Proffitt, a former editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, created the Waldo Proffitt Award in 1998. The Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Inc.’s Waldo Proffitt Scholarship Fund is responsible for funding the prize.
Award:
- The $1,000 award will be given for outstanding achievement in a story or series of stories, commentary or editorials during 2022.
Eligibility:
- Work must have been published/aired by a Florida newspaper, TV news station, radio station or digital news site. Entries by an individual or team may include distinguished local reporting of breaking news, distinguished investigative reporting presented as a single story or series, distinguished explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject presented as a single story or series, distinguished commentary or editorial writing, or a combination of these forms.
- Journalists employed by daily and weekly newspapers, TV stations, radio stations and digital news organizations are eligible for the award, as are their news organizations.
- Only one entry per news organization may be submitted each year, but the entry may have as many as five items.
Application:
Entries will be accepted as links. An explanatory letter not to exceed one page may accompany the entry. Each entry should have the entrant’s name, address, phone number and the name of the news organization.
