Workshops & Services - Competitions
World Media Association Essay Contest
To qualify you must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate/graduate student in an accredited college or university in the U.S. during the fall term of the 2006-2007 academic year. Deadline for entry is Dec. 31, 2006.
S.F. Chronicle Spelling Bee
The Chronicle is proud to sponsor the Bay Area regional Scripps National Spelling Bee. Public, private and home schools in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin, Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino counties are eligible to participate.
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Digital Contest
Photographs may have been originally shot on film or with a digital camera, but the entries must be submitted to us in digital form. Photographs do not have to be published to qualify. No slide or print entries are accepted.
National Press Photographers Association Competitions
Annual Best of Photojournalism Competiton, Monthly and Quarterly Clip Contests, and the Women in Photojournalism Contest.
California College Media Competition
CCMA offers one statewide mail-in competition each school year. Visit their web site to find out more about categories and how to enter.
Arkansas Press Women High School Journalism Competition
Judged by journalists, the competition is an excellent opportunity for students to expose their work to professional eyes and get useful feedback from outside their usual school circle.
Pictures of the Year International Competition
Pictures of the Year International is important because it offers photographers and editors the opportunity to appraise their work. It also creates a valuable archive.
World Press Photo Contest
The contest is open to professional photographers only. There is no entry fee. You must be the copyright holder of the work you submit, or be authorized by the copyright holder to submit the images.
Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition
Open to all general circulation newspapers – daily or non-daily, broadsheet or tabloid, traditional or alternative – published anywhere in the world.
Annual College Photo Contest
Photographer's Forum Magazine and Nikon will award over $4,000 in grants. Winning photos will be enetered into Nikon's Emerging Photographers Hall of Fame.
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Bring on the Night Photo Contest
7x7 Magazine announces the annual search for the photograph that best captures the distinct spirit of San Francisco's nightlife. See website for details.
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Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition
John Fischetti was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose work was published in the New York Herald-Tribune, the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times. Shortly after his death in 1980, friends created the endowment in his honor.
National Federation of Press Women Competitions
Whether student, professional or retired, any member can compete in the competition offering hundreds of categories in print and electronic journalism, advertising, public relations, new media, photography, speech writing and authorship.
Rolling Stone College Journalism Competition
The categories are Entertainment Reporting, Feature Writing, and Essays and Criticism. A $2,500 prize is awarded in each category.
Felix Morley Journalism Competition
In honor of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Felix Morley, IHS will award cash prizes to outstanding young writers (age 25 and under) whose work best demonstrates and communicates an appreciation of classical liberal principles.
aBetterEarth Essay Contest
aBetterEarth.Org is a project of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, a non-profit educational organization that promotes innovative thinking about how we can achieve a world that is peaceful, prosperous and free.
Society of Professional Journalists High School Essay Contest
SPJ wants to increase high school student's knowledge and understanding of the importance of the Free Media to our lives. National winners of this essay contest receive scholarship awards. All students enrolled in grades 9-12 are eligible.
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Leica Camera/Jim Marshall Scholarship Photo Contest
Open to high school and college students pursuing a major or minor in photography.
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Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition
Competition encourages college students who aspire to the profession to which Howard dedicated his life. Winners receive scholarships ranging from $500 to $3,000.
Video Contest for College Students
A nonprofit organization founded in 1945, The Christophers uses the media to spread two basic ideas: Thereís nobody like you, and you can make a difference.Ý
Ayn Rand Essay Contest
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was an ardent advocate of reason, rational self-interest, individual rights and free-market capitalism. The essay contest offers $70,500 in prize money.
Design of the Year Competition
Co-sponsored by Adobe Systems and NSPA. First-place winners in each category receive an Adobe software package of their choice.