 
 Market1993 Heywood Broun Award
 

     The Newspaper Guild's
     1993 HEYWOOD BROUN AWARD
     $2,000 in Cash and a Guild Citation
     DEADLINE: JANUARY 28, 1994
     
     FOR the 53rd consecutive year The Newspaper Guild (AFLCIO, CLC)
     offers its Broun Award for outstanding journalistic achievement "in
     the spirit of Heywood Broun," the great newspaper columnist who was
     the Guild's founder.
     
     The spirit of Heywood Broun was distinguished by an abiding concern
     for the underdog and the underprivileged, whose vigorous champion he
     was.  It was expressed, as the New York Times recalled on his death
     in 1939, "in the qualities that were born in him--in humor, in
     courage, in endless and painstaking kindliness for the poor, the
     weak and those whom he thought oppressed," and in his crusading
     jounalism in their behalf.
     
     The Heywood Broun Award is intended to encourage and recognize
     individual journalistic achievement in this spirit by members of the
     working press, particularly if it helps right a wrong or correct an
     injustice.  (The Award has gone to an editorial-page cartoonist and
     local columnists, as well as reporters.) Publications as such are
     not eligible.  Team entries are not excluded, but first
     consideration will be given to entries on behalf Or individuals or
     teams of no more than two persons.  This, too, is in the spirit of
     Heywood Broun.
     
     The 1993 Award will be given for work done or work completed between
     January 1, 1993, and December 31, 1993.
     
     Eligible are employees of newspapers, news services, news magazines
     and radio and television stations in the U.S., Canada and Puerto
     Rico, whether they are members of the Guild or not.  Managerial
     employees and free lances are not eligible, nor are publications and
     other employers as such, or entries on behalf of entire staffs that,
     in effect, constitute entries on behalf of a publication or other
     employer.
     
     Applicants may submit entries on their own or others' behalf.
     
     There are no application forms, but each entry should be accompanied
     by a letter describing the circumstances under which the work was
     done and its results.  Print entries should be submitted in
     scrapbook form, broadcast entries in the form of audio or video
     tapes (half-inch VHS, please), with final scripts or summaries.
     
     To facilitate judging, entries and cover letters should be submitted
     in duplicate where feasible, and include a return phone number.
     Faxes are not accepted.
     
     Entries must be received by January 28,1994.  A panel of
     distinguished journalists will judge the Award, and its decision
     will be final.
     
     All entries become the property of the Award Committee and will not
     be returned except upon specific request.
     
     Entries should be sent to:
     BROUN AWARD COMMITTEE
     THE NEWSPAPER GUILD (AFL-CIO, CLC)
     8611 SECOND AVENUE
     SILVER SPRING, MD  20910 
     Phone: (301) 585-2990
     
