Party, Journo Style, at SPJ-SD’s Annual Awards Celebration

There’s nothing like an outdoor event in June in San Diego — the sunset, the weather, the summer vibes. Come join us on Tuesday, June 20, for our annual awards dinner and celebration. We’re heading back to Stone Brewing in Liberty Station for a fun, relaxed outdoor gathering, full of good food and drink in the company of your favorite journalists. Pre-sale tickets (through May 19) are $60 for SPJ members and $65 for nonmembers and include a tasty food spread and dessert. Drink tokens, available on our ticket website, are $6 for craft sodas and $9 for a beer, wine or hard seltzer.

The evening will include a short program when we’ll announce the winners of our special awards and honor our Journalist of the Year (TBA). Once again we’ll be holding a silent auction, so come prepared to drop some extra cash on one of our fabulous items.

We’ll be announcing our awards winners soon, so keep an eye on this space.

As in past years, first-place winners will receive a plaque and second and third place winners will receive a certificate. You can pick up your awards at the event.

When: Tuesday, June 20, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Where: Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens @ Liberty Station, 2816 Historic Decatur Road, Unit 116, Building 12

Buy tickets via our ticket website.

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San Diego SPJ launches its 2023 Journalism Contest DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 6, 9 P.M.

Deadline extended! Submit your entries to the ’23 contest by March 6 at 9 p.m.

The 2023 SPJ San Diego Area Journalism Competition recognizes outstanding work by San Diego-area student and professional journalists published or broadcast during the calendar year 2022. Our contest opens early this year — entries will be accepted beginning Monday, Jan. 30, through Monday, Feb. 27. Entries submitted by 9 p.m. PST on Monday, Feb. 20, will get $10 off their entry fees ($5 off for students) in every category but our Distinguished Coverage Award and Excellence in Journalism Award. Entry fees for those two categories will remain the same.

This year’s Distinguished Coverage Award will honor stories about the cost of living in San

Diego. Each outlet that produced reporting related to this topic should submit its best story, series, or segment, along with an essay of no more than 500 words on why the coverage merits recognition. This award is open to all outlets and the fee to enter is $50.

Submit your entries using the BetterBNC Media Awards platform — we’ve added several new categories this year that we hope will offer more journalists the chance to have their work honored. To register or enter the contest, open a new browser window or tab to http://www.betterbnc.com. Keep this window open to refer to as you submit your awards.

If you have entered awards via the BetterBNC platform before — either for the SD-SPJ competition or for the SD Press Club awards — you should already be in the system, and you just have to select the 2023 SPJ awards contest.

All contest entries must be submitted online via the BetterBNC platform and must be entered by or on behalf of the individuals who produced the work and must identify each individual involved in producing the work.

Students: This year’s scholarship contest will be run separately from the San Diego Area Journalism Competition. Please stay tuned for additional information to be posted later this week.

Below are directions for preparing and submitting entries. If you have questions, please contact Terry Williams at 619-743-3669 or spj.sandiego@cox.net.

Best of luck to all of our applicants!

How to Enter
Contest Guidelines and Categories 2023
FAQs 2023

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SD-SPJ Accepting 2021 Contest Entries

CALLING ALL WINNERS!

SAN DIEGO SPJ IS NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES FOR OUR 2021 CONTEST.

The 2021 SPJ San Diego Area Journalism Competition will recognize outstanding work by San Diego-area student and professional journalists published or broadcast during the calendar year 2020. Contest entries will be accepted Thursday April 1 through Monday, May 3. Those submitted by 9 p.m. PST on Monday, April 26, 2021, will get $5 off their entry fees in every category but our top and special awards. Student rates do not change.

This year’s Distinguished Coverage Award will honor stories about the COVID-19 pandemic or calls for racial equality in 2020 (participants must choose one topic or the other, not both.) Did your outlet cover it best? Each outlet should submit its best story, series, or show, along with a 500-word essay on why the coverage merits recognition. This award is open to all outlets and the fee to enter is $50.

We are also accepting applications for five $1,000 San Diego SPJ scholarships and one $1,000 Agnes Diggs scholarship from the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation. We look forward to handing these scholarships out to eligible local journalism students.

This year, San Diego SPJ is proud to announce a new $1,000 scholarship award.

The Bradley J. Fikes Scholarship honors the late reporter’s exemplary career, who wrote for the Daily Transcript, North County Times, and San Diego Union-Tribune. In recognition of Bradley’s contributions to science and technology journalism, preference will be given to applicants interested in these areas of reporting and can explain so on their application.

Winners of the awards and scholarships will be announced this summer during either a virtual or in-person event, depending on the pandemic restrictions.

Submit your entries using the BetterBNC Media Awards Platform. To register or enter the contest online now, open a new browser window or tab to http://www.betterbnc.com. Keep this window open to refer to as you submit your awards.

If you have entered other contests on this platform before, either for last year’s SD-SPJ competition or for the SD Press Club awards, you are already in the system, and you just have to ask to enter the 2021 SPJ awards contest.

Below are directions for preparing and submitting entries. If you have questions, please contact Terry Williams at 619-743-3669 or spj.sandiego@cox.net.

All contest entries must be submitted online (except for entries in the College Media Best Newspaper category, which must be mailed and postmarked by the contest deadline to SPJ to P.O. Box 880482, San Diego, CA 92168-0482). All entries must be entered by or on behalf of the individuals who produced the work and must identify those individuals.

Best of luck to all of our applicants!

How to Enter

Contest Guidelines and Categories 2021

Scholarship Details

FAQs 2021

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Pick Up Your SPJ Awards!

Congratulations all of our 2020 San Diego-SPJ Award Winners. We will be hosting two times for award pick-ups this weekend on the SDSU Campus. Award recipients can drive up, and SD-SPJ board members will hand out the award plaques or certificates.

WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon and Sunday, Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: In front of the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences building, 5201 Campanile Mall, San Diego, CA 92182.

DIRECTIONS
From I-8: Exit at College Ave, turn right on Lindo Paseo, pass the Trader Joe’s and parking structure, then turn right on Campanile Dr. Building is on your right.

From Montezuma Rd: Turn north onto Campanile Dr. and pass Lindo Paseo. Building is on your right.

If you have any questions, please email spjsandiego@gmail.com for more information.

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