Missed the submission deadline? Well, then you’re in luck!
You can now submit your winning entry to SPJ Louisiana’s Public Service Awards through April 20!
The Ed Anderson Award recognizes public service to the state or community by a printed, digital or wire service medium. The John Korbel Award recognizes public service by a radio or television station.
The awards will honor entries that focuses the community’s attention on an issue in need of resolution. Each entry must contain a minimum of two articles, editorials or stories and a maximum of six dealing with the same issue. Preference will be given to a campaign that has succeeded in resolving the issue. All entries from Louisiana-based news organizations must be published or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021.
This year, the chapter has created the Louisiana Student Public Service Award. The same rules apply, except it is open to collegiate media, print or broadcast.
Deadline for entries is April 20. There is no limit to the number of separate entries an organization may submit. The fee is $25 per entry for the Anderson and Korbel Awards and $10 for the student award. Links and attachments must be submitted via email at spjlouisiana@gmail.com. Payments made to spjlouisiana@gmail.com are accepted via www.Paypal.com.
The entries are judged by out-of-state SPJ members. The awards will be presented at the chapter’s annual dinner in Lafayette in late June. The time and place are yet to be announced.
Ed Anderson, who died in 2015, was the longtime State Capitol correspondent for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. John Korbel was a veteran broadcast journalist and news director at stations in New Orleans and Lafayette and spent the last 19 years of his life as a journalism professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He died in 2018.
Last year, The Current, an online non-profit in Lafayette, won the Anderson Award for six stories related to how other Louisiana cities, unlike Lafayette, were using federal coronavirus relief funds to aid the homeless, which put pressure on the local administration and led eventually to the allocation of $760,000 for families facing foreclosure or eviction.
KATC-TV3 in Lafayette won last year’s Korbel Award for its two reports, titled “Body of Evidence,” which cited hundreds of cases of coroners authorizing cremations of the bodies of homicide victims. The report led to a reexamination of the state law on cremations in the case of homicides.
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