2024 Beat Reporting, Small

Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small
 Three to five broadcast or published news reports and/or commentary on a broad range of environmental topics or a broad range of various issues within a single environmental topic, published or aired between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Entry must be the work of three journalists maximum, plus a photographer, graphics artist or other individual vital to the development of the stories. TV reporters may include a small video team.  

  • Related stories published on the same day count as one story. 
  • A series may begin or end outside the eligibility window.
  • A cover letter is mandatory, and may be submitted by the reporter entering the contest or any other individual, and should help judges understand difficulties the reporter faced, impacts of the story or other information that would interest judges.

ELIGIBILITY

  • Print and online stories: News organizations with fewer than 100 full-time editorial employees (including reporters, editors, copy editors, art directors, and others directly engaged in producing journalism). If an entry was produced with external resources — contractors, freelancers, etc. — that number must be included when determining size.
  • Broadcast and Recorded stories: Below top 50 television and top 100 audio markets in the U.S. and in equivalent markets outside the U.S. Entered stories, combined, must be no more than sixty minutes long.
  • Small-newsroom entities collaborating with large-newsroom entities qualify as large-newsroom. 
  • Stories edited or altered for content after April 30, 2025, aren't eligible.
  • Do not enter a story more than once in SEJ's 2025 Awards. Duplicates will be discarded.
  • Only stories published or aired by the original media outlet are eligible. The form will ask where stories have been republished or re-aired, but only the original stories are eligible to be judged. 

See complete rules.     DEADLINES Regular deadline: June 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET.  Late-entry deadline (with additional fee): July 1, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. 

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