{"id":290,"date":"2015-06-22T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/confdev.journalists.org\/ethics\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2016-05-26T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:06:16","slug":"awards-and-contests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalists-org-develop.go-vip.co\/ethics\/topics\/awards-and-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What kind of contests should we enter our work in? What contests should we avoid?<\/li>\n<li>What about prizes that are given in the name of a corporate sponsor?<\/li>\n<li>Suppose we win an award from a contest that we didn\u2019t enter and don\u2019t want an award from?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re thrilled when our work wins contests. But what contests should we enter, and what awards should we accept?<\/p>\n<p>First, it\u2019s rarely a good idea to write a story specifically to win a contest. \u201cTuning\u201d a story to specific contest entry rules makes the length and approach of the story or video more a response to the judges\u2019 requirements than to the reader\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>Most journalists are happy to enter contests organized by journalistic groups, with journalists as judges. The journalistic groups should reflect your own principles; that is, if your organization follows the objective journalism model, you should enter contests that value objective journalism.<\/p>\n<p>If your journalists write opinion, you can seek and accept awards from organizations that value opinion journalism.<\/p>\n<p>But what about awards from non-journalistic groups?<\/p>\n<p>Many news outlets are wary of awards from advocacy groups, political groups and corporations, even if their judging panels consist of journalists. These outlets feel that accepting awards from groups they cover, or that have a strong political or policy position, bring their credibility into question.<\/p>\n<p>However, a journalistic organization that has a commitment to a particular political or social point of view may have no problem accepting an award from an advocacy group that endorses that cause.<\/p>\n<p>Some journalists also do not accept awards from corporations other than media companies, even if the company does not have an ideological position, because they feel accepting the award would amount to free publicity for the company. Some are also wary of any award that bears a company\u2019s name or carries a cash award from a company, even if it is awarded by a journalistic group.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a news outlet will receive news it has won such an award, even if it didn\u2019t enter the contest. In this case, the organization has the option to publicly decline the award &#8212; by issuing a statement or sending a letter to the sponsors &#8212; or simply to disregard the award, neither accepting it nor publicizing the fact it was given.<\/p>\n<p>This main author of this section\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/tjrkent\">Thomas Kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of contests should we enter our work in? What contests should we avoid? What about prizes that are given in the name of a corporate sponsor? Suppose we win an award from a contest that we didn\u2019t enter and don\u2019t want an award from? We\u2019re thrilled when our work wins contests. 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