SABEW Best in Business Journalism Contest Takes Another Step into the Digital Age.COLUMBIA Columbia, cities, United States Columbia (kəlŭm`bēə). 1 City (1990 pop. 75,883), Howard co., central Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. , Mo. -- The Society of American Business Editors and Writers The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is an association of business journalists. Its headquarters is at the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri–Columbia. See also: Business journalism Source: Official site is building on last year's success with online registration for its Best in Business contest by taking the entire entry process online for many categories in our 13th annual competition. Editors will enter the SECTION contest as they did last year: Register the entry online, then mail in four copies of each section. Entries for the NEWS contest - breaking news, enterprise, columns and student categories, among others - will be registered entirely online. Entrants must attach a .pdf (or several .pdfs in a .zip file (1) A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP algorithm is the most popular compression method in use. Not Just the . ) while registering their entry. The contest will consider only work published in the 2006 calendar year. Entries for the NEWS contest must be completed online by Feb. 1. Entries for the SECTION contest must be registered online by Feb. 1, and four sets of the entry packet must also be postmarked to SABEW SABEW Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc. by Feb. 1. Follow the instructions at www.sabew.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. and use the handy drop-down menus See pull-down menu. drop-down menu - pull-down menu to choose the appropriate contest category, join SABEW for 2007, and pay for everything by credit card. The Best in Business contest has two main components - the SECTION competition to select outstanding daily newspaper business sections and weekly business newspapers, and the NEWS contest to select the best individual stories or packages of stories published by the business news media. Additionally, SABEW is once again inviting students interested in business journalism Business journalism is the branch of journalism that tracks, records, analyses and interprets the economic changes that take place in a society. It could include anything from personal finance, to business at the local market to the malls, to performance of well-known and to enter the student contest. The SECTION competition for daily newspapers is divided into four categories based on average daily circulation, plus a fifth category for all weekly newspapers: SMALL: up to 125,000 MEDIUM: 125,001 to 250,000 LARGE: 250,001 to 375,000 GIANT: 375,001 and above WEEKLY: all in one category Editors entering the SECTION contest should read the rules carefully as copies of the newspaper must be submitted for three mandatory dates in order to provide our judges with a representative sample of the newspaper. The three mandatory dates are: Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. , Aug. 20, 2006 Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006 Weekly newspapers must submit the editions published during the following weeks: Sunday, Feb. 12 to Saturday Feb. 18, 2006 Sunday, Aug. 20 to Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 Sunday, Nov. 26 to Saturday Dec. 2, 2006 The NEWS competition is divided into five main categories: Breaking News: A package of up to seven stories planned, reported and written in a single day under deadline pressure. The judges will give greater weight to the quality of the main story of the package. The best sidebars, graphics and pictures cannot compensate for a main story that is weak. The judges also will give greater weight to coverage of UNANTICIPATED events than to coverage of events that are expected. This is because it is much more difficult to do quality work on the fly than with stories in the hopper A tray, or chute, that accepts input to a mechanical device, such as a disk duplicator or printer. In the days of punch cards, millions of cards were numerically or alphabetically organized by placing them into the hopper of a card sorter, taking them out of all the stackers and putting ready to go at a moment's notice. Enterprise: A single story that demonstrates exceptional enterprise. It can be a scoop, an interview that sheds unique light on a newsmaker news·mak·er n. One that is newsworthy. or an issue, an analysis that shows enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and/or original thought. An enterprise entry should be planned, original and deeply reported. This category is NOT for an investigative series (see Projects). Projects: A series of up to five stories, or a story of up to five parts, that is investigative in nature or extensively researched. The stories should be reported over time. The stories should raise fresh issues, provide insight and/or share clear explanations. Judges will take into account the impact or reaction to the stories, and editors may explain the impact/reaction in a one-page cover letter. Columns: All types of columns on business subjects are eligible. Entries will be judged based on the size of the daily newspapers where they originally appear (see circulation sizes above for Giant, Large, Medium, Small). All weekly newspaper columns will be judged together, and all columns appearing on real time media such as wire services, or online, will be judged together. There will be a separate sub-category for syndicated or freelance columns. Four columns are required per entry: Three of them are writer's choice. The mandatory date is Wednesday, Feb. 8 (or, if the entrant en·trant n. One that enters, especially one that enters a competition. [French, from present participle of entrer, to enter, from Old French; see enter. did not publish a column on Feb. 8, the first column published AFTER Feb. 8). Student contest: Each student can enter one published article with a strong business, economic or financial angle. SABEW judges will choose one winner who will receive $250 plus a scholarship to attend the 2007 SABEW annual conference, May 20-22 in Orange County, Calif. Second-place winners, if chosen, will receive certificates. See www.sabew.org for complete contest rules, instructions on how to register online or prepare an entry for mailing, information on contest fees and a list of frequently asked questions. To enter the SABEW Best In Business contest, follow this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www2.sabew.org/sabewweb.nsf/BIBContestEntry!OpenForm |
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