Contest

The Contest Is Coming!

Attention San Diego area journalists: The San Diego Society of Professional Journalists is excited to announce that entries for our annual journalism contest will open on Monday, February 10, 2025.

This contest honors outstanding work by San Diego-area students and professional journalists published or broadcast during the 2024 calendar year.

Call your friends, call your boss, search under the couch, and get those entry fees ready. SPJ San Diego members get discounted entry prices. Join here.

This year, we are introducing several new categories to recognize a broader range of journalistic excellence. We’re also adding Spanish language categories.

We look forward to celebrating the exceptional journalism produced in our community. Best of luck to all participants!

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Here’s the full list of SPJ San Diego’s 2024 journalism contest winners

We had a blast honoring the best of San Diego journalism at this year’s awards banquet!

You can see submissions that received comments from the judges here, and a full list of winners here. Not all first place submissions received additional comments.

Congratulations to all the winners, and a big thank you to everybody who came out to celebrate another great year of local journalism!

Note: The full list of winners was replaced with a more complete version on June 30.

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Congrats to this year’s San Diego SPJ winners!

The judges have judged, and so many journalists produced award-winning work in and about San Diego in 2023. Check the list below for your name. We’ll see you at our annual banquet at Stone Brewing on Thursday, June 27, where you can pick up your award. We’ll be announcing first, second and third place winners, and winners of our special awards, at the banquet.

Buy your tickets before June 15 for an early-bird discount!

Click here to see the full list of winners.

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SPJ San Diego’s Scholarship Contest is now open!

This year, SPJ San Diego will award up to five $1,200 scholarships to local college students in the categories of print, photojournalism and video/audio/multimedia. We are also awarding one $1,400 scholarship in honor of former North County Times columnist Agnes Diggs and one $1,000 scholarship in honor of former San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Bradley J. Fikes.

The deadline for scholarship applications is 9 p.m. Monday, April 22, 2024. Click here for full contest rules and click here to enter.

If you have any questions, email sdspjcollege@gmail.com.

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