Carmage Walls Commentary Prize

Deadline for entries is this Friday!

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If your newspaper has a strong editorial voice, you need to submit an entry for the 2016 Carmage Walls Commentary Prize.  The deadline for entries is Friday, May 6.

Daily and non-daily newspapers are both eligible to enter this competition.  Your best work could earn a $1,000 cash prize.

Awards will be presented in each of two circulation categories – over 50,000 circulation and under 50,000 circulation. 

In each circulation group, the first-place winner will receive a plaque and a cash award of $1,000. Second-place winners will receive a plaque and $500.

This annual award, to be presented during the Sept. 14-16 News Industry Summit in Sarasota, Fla., recognizes outstanding commentary on local issues. It encourages thoughtful, courageous and constructive editorial page leadership on issues specifically relevant to each newspaper’s primary readership.

The prize was named for the late Benjamin Carmage Walls whose newspaper career spanned seven decades. Walls primarily owned community newspapers and advocated strong, courageous and positive editorial page leadership. His friends and associates funded the cost of the awards for the first 10 years. Southern Newspapers, Inc. – led by Lissa Walls, his daughter – has been underwriting the cost of the awards since then.

For additional information, contact Cindy Durham at SNPA: cindy@snpa.org or (404) 256-0444.

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