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The highlight of the annual summer conference is the presentation of ISWNE's two distinctive awards, the Golden Quill and the Eugene Cervi Award. Golden Quill and Eugene Cervi Award winners will be invited guests of ISWNE for a presentation during the Society's annual conference in Detroit, Michigan, June 25-29, 2008. Each award includes a plaque, conference expenses, and travel expenses up to $500. The first Golden Quill Award in 1961 went to Hal De Cell of the Deer Creek Pilot, Rolling Fork, Miss. Then, as now, the award recognized good opinion writing in the non-daily field. There are usually as many as 150 entries. Eligibility: All newspapers of less than daily frequency (published less than five days per week) are qualified to enter. Entries must have been published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2007. Entries should reflect the purpose of the ISWNE: Encouraging the writing of editorials that identify issues that are or should be of concern to the community, offer an opinion, and support a course of action, with an emphasis on local subject matter. Cost: There is no entry fee. How to Submit Entries: Select up to four best editorials or signed opinion pieces from your newspaper. Two is the maximum number of entries permitted from each individual. Mount each entry on 8 1/2-by-11-inch white paper, using glue or mounting material that does not bleed through newsprint. In order to run copies, do not let the entry extend past the edges of the paper. Please try to eliminate any identifying information, such as a byline or mug shot. On the back of each page on which the entries are mounted, the following should appear: Name of newspaper, full mailing address of newspaper, date of publication, full name and title of the writer, and the writer's email address and telephone number. Grassroots Editor, ISWNE's quarterly journal, will reprint the 12 best editorials as the Golden Dozen in the Summer, 2008 issue. |
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 Eugene Cervi |
The Eugene Cervi Award was established by ISWNE to honor the memory of Eugene Cervi of the Rocky Mountain Journal, Denver, by recognizing a newspaper editor who has consistently acted in the conviction that “good journalism begets good government.” The award is presented not for a single brave accomplishment, however deserving, but for a career of outstanding public service through community journalism and for adhering to the highest standards of the craft with the deep reverence for the English language that was the hallmark of Eugene Cervi's writing. The award also recognizes consistently aggressive reporting of government at the grassroots level and interpretation of local affairs. |
| Nominations: Cervi Award Nominations should begin with a letter of nomination, which should include the writer's reasons for making the nomination. The nomination should also have other letters about the nominee, clippings demonstrating the criteria for the award and a biographical data sheet giving basic facts about the nominee's career. Nominations are open only to editors of newspapers of less than daily frequency. Daily is defined as at least five days per week in frequency. (Note: Since the Cervi Award covers a journalistic career, supporting materials are not limited by chronology. Clips can be made from any point in the nominee's career.) | |
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Golden Dozen Please mail the entries flat in appropriate envelopes.
Please mark the envelope: Send
Entries To: 2008
Gene Cervi Award
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