2024 Feature Story, Small

Outstanding Feature Story, Small
 Entry must be a single environmental interest story not directly tied to a recent news event, with an emphasis on storytelling. Entries must be published between April 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024. Multi-part stories are prohibited.

• Enter a single story. Related stories or sidebars published or aired the same day through the same media outlet count as one story.
• 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

• A single Journalism story about an environmental issue published or aired between April 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024, in a media outlet available to the general public.
• Multi-part stories and series are prohibited. 
• Print or online entries: News organizations with more than 100 employees (including all who support production, directly or indirectly). If an entry was produced with external resources — contractors, freelancers, etc. — that number must be included when determining size.
• Recorded story: National networks in the U.S. and elsewhere and top 50 television and top 100 audio markets in the U.S. and in equivalent markets outside the U.S.
• Your recorded story must be no more than 60 minutes.
• Small-newsroom entities collaborating with large-newsroom entities qualify as large-newsroom.
• An online story edited or altered for content after April 30, 2024 isn't eligible.
• Do not enter a story more than once in this or any other category. Duplicates will be discarded.

See complete rules.

DEADLINES

Regular deadline: June 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET. 

Late-entry deadline (with additional fee): July 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET.