Michigan Journalist of the Year Award
Wade H. McCree Awards
for the Advancement of Justice
The Richard Milliman Michigan Journalist of the Year award is in an annual competition sponsored by the Michigan Press Association Foundation. In 2016, the Michigan Journalist of the Year award was renamed in honor of Richard Milliman, a MPA Foundation founder and long term supporter and advocate of press in Michigan.
The Foundation is seeking entries for its seventh annual competition. The contest is open to all professional journalists in Michigan. The award will honor an individual journalist whose work had a significant impact, locally or statewide. Journalists may submit a body of work published, broadcast, or posted from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021. For this competition, a "body of work" may comprise up to six examples of the journalist's work during the contest period. Each entry must include a a cover letter of up to 300 words highlighting the quality and impact of the journalist's work. Entries may include supporting material to show how the journalist's work made a difference in the community or across Michigan.
Entries for the 2021 contest will be accepted beginning on August 1 and ending on October 30th.
The McCree Awards recognize Michigan broadcast, print and on-line journalists whose work fosters greater public understanding of the values of our legal and judicial systems.
To be eligible, journalistic work must be published, broadcast and/or posted between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021. The work must inform and educate citizens about the role of the law, the courts, law enforcement agencies, or the legal profession in society. The work could also disclose practices in need of improvement and encourage legal and legislative efforts to reform or modernize our laws, courts, and law enforcement agencies.
Entries may consist of feature or news articles, analyses, editorials, or combinations of these. In the broadcast category, documentaries, educational or editorial programs may be submitted. Any Michigan newspaper, news service, news syndicate or network, magazine, television or radio station or legal publication, or any employees of such entities are eligible to enter. There is no charge for entering.
Contest begins December 1, 2021 and ends February 5, 2022.
Still have questions? Contact Diana Davis at [email protected].
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