It takes highly skilled, passionate, and determined individuals to produce high-quality publications. Each year the New England Newspaper & Press Association recognizes the achievements of the very best newspaper professionals in New England in the Better Newspaper Competition.
The Better Newspaper Competition is the largest and most comprehensive journalism recognition program in New England.
The competition has more than 100 award categories broken down into two divisions:
- Editorial/Multimedia/
Photography Division – Download Editorial Categories & Rules - Advertising/Circulation/
Promotion Division – Download Advertising Categories & Rules
New or modified categories for 2021:
Coverage of Protests and Rallies, Climate Change or Weather Reporting, Presidential Election Coverage, Racial, Ethnic or Gender Issue Coverage, Pandemic Photo, Sports Action Photo, Sports Feature Photo, and Combatting Misinformation and Restoring Trust.
Instructions:
- The work that you’ve published between August 1, 2020, to July 31, 2021, is eligible.
- Contest participants will need to submit links and PDFs of their best work. Please note that judges prefer PDFs over links, so we encourage you to use PDFs whenever possible.
- When registering on the contest site please use the association code NENPA.
- The contest is open to all NENPA members in good standing.
- The deadline to submit entries is Friday, December 3, 2021.
The awards will be presented at the annual New England Newspaper Convention, which will be held in Spring 2022.
For further information please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com.
