National Council on Crime and Delinquency: Call for entries

Contact: Renee Plog, Communications Manager
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Call for Entries: Media for a Just Society Awards

NCCD is pleased to announce the call for entries for the 2016 Media for a Just Society Awards. The Media for a Just Society Awards program is the only national recognition of print, web, and broadcast journalism; TV news and feature reporting, producing, and writing; films; and literature that furthers public understanding of criminal justice, juvenile justice, child welfare, and adult protection issues. NCCD is seeking stories, features, segments, series, or shows that illustrate current realities or the promise of reform, especially those that help people understand the complex issues surrounding the nation’s social systems. 

Categories include book, film, print/online journalism—longform, print/online journalism—shortform, radio, television/video, and youth media. Past winners include author Nell Bernstein (Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison); filmmaker Malik Vitthal (Imperial Dreams); journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates (“The Case for Reparations”); author Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow); David Simon (creator of HBO’s The Wire); and other illustrious journalists, writers, and filmmakers.

We are currently accepting entries for works published or released during the 2015 calendar year. Click here for detailed instructions on how to submit an entry; please read carefully before submitting. An online entry form, which is required for each submission, must be received by NCCD no later than December 31, 2015. If mailing your work, please ensure it is postmarked by December 31. For work that is first released between December 15 and December 31, 2015, the deadline for submission will be extended to January 10, 2016. 

For more details on how to submit your work, click here.

To learn about the 2015 winning pieces and other past winners, click here.