Impress your administration — win an award!

Here’s a contest opportunity for college newspapers. Deadline is Feb. 15.

2007 Betty Gage Holland Award
The Betty Gage Holland Award recognizes campus journalists and their publications for distinguished service to honor and protect the integrity of public dialogue on America’s college campuses. An award of $1,000 is made to the winning journalist(s) and an additional $1,000 to the sponsoring newspaper or magazine.

Of special importance to judges are news stories, institutional editorials, personal commentaries or columns that single out for public examination any act that results in distortion or pollution of the public discourse. Use of open records or “sunshine” laws by campus newspapers or magazines is deemed particularly meritorious if the result is to let the people see the people’s business being done.

Nominations for the award may be made by or on behalf of any journalist(s) regularly enrolled in a university or college at time of publication and also by or on behalf of any campus newspaper or magazine, whether independent or university supported, that published the pertinent material.

Nominations for the 2007 calendar year and supporting documentation must be submitted no later than Feb. 15, 2008.
Submissions must include: (1) three copies or tear sheets of the published material, (2) a cover letter of no more than 300 words by the nominated journalist(s) explaining the journalistic motive, reporting methods and impact or results of the published material, and (3) an endorsement of no more than 300 words by the publisher or editor in chief of the newspaper or magazine that published the material.

Send nominations to: Betty Gage Holland Award, Cox Institute, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia, 120 Hooper St., Athens, Ga. 30602-3018.

The annual award is sponsored by the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. It honors the late Betty Gage Holland, long-time friend of journalism education at the University of Georgia. Winning entries for 2005 and 2006 and additional information found at:www.grady.uga.edu/hollandaward.

For more information, contact:
Cecil Bentley
Assistant Director
Cox Institute for Newspaper Management
Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication
The University of Georgia
(706) 542-4993
cbentley@uga.edu