The Scripps Howard Fund is accepting entries for the 71st Scripps Howard Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious journalism competitions.
The awards honor the journalism and storytelling produced in 2023, saluting work from television stations, networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and other print publications.
With a focus on high-impact and investigative storytelling, the Scripps Howard Awards offers $170,000 in prize money in 15 categories.
Categories include:
- Audio Storytelling
- Breaking News
- Business/Financial Reporting
- Environmental Reporting
- Distinguished Service to the First Amendment
- Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling
- Visual Human-Interest Storytelling
- Innovation
- Local/Regional Investigative Reporting
- National/International Investigative Reporting
- Multimedia Journalism
- Opinion Writing
- Local Video Storytelling
- National/International Video Storytelling
- Impact Award*
* The Impact Award winner is chosen from the winners of the other 14 categories and select finalists.
Find the full category descriptions here.
Finalists will be announced in September, with winners announced in October during a special program airing on Scripps News, the national digital multicast network owned by The E.W. Scripps Company.
Last year’s winners represent newsrooms large and small, with the Impact Award going to American Public Media for “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong.” Reporter Emily Hanford unmasked how four influential authors and their publishers sustained the status quo, convincing teachers for decades to embrace a reading program that research has proven to be ineffective and damaging to students. The podcast prompted widespread change, at least 15 states have taken new action related to reading instruction.
The deadline to apply is Feb. 5.
Click here to apply for the 71st Scripps Howard Awards.
