John B. Oakes Award - How to Enter

Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza explains the details of her 2008 water contamination investigation, "PharmaWater." Photo/Rebecca Castillo

The 2009 Oakes Award and its $5,000 prize will go to the author(s) of an article or single-topic series on an environmental issue initially published between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009. The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2009.

• A series must be designated as such by the publication when it is printed. A regular column may also be submitted as a series.


• Only newspaper and magazine articles are eligible. If photos and/or illustrations substantially strengthen the winning piece, the judges may divide the award among the writer and the photographer or illustrator.


• Fiction cannot be considered.


• Two reprints or originals of each article must be submitted with every entry. Every copy must have an entry form. Entry forms may be either originals or copies or printed from this website.


• No more than two entries by the same writer may be submitted.


• A translation must be supplied for any article not written in English.

Application

Send submissions (include your name, mailing address, phone number, email address) to :

Lisa Sara Redd
Program Manager, Professional Prizes
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway
New York, New York 10027

or contact Lisa Sara Redd at

lsr21@columbia.edu or (212) 854-6468