Deadline Tomorrow
$12,000 in Award Prizes
Carolyn C. Mattingly Award for Mental Health ReportingThe National Press Foundation established a journalism award to honor excellence in mental health reporting. The award, which comes with a $10,000 cash prize, recognizes exemplary journalism that illuminates and advances the understanding of mental health issues and treatments for the illness. All details and the application can be found here.
Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy WritingEach year, the National Press Foundation presents the Thomas L. Stokes Award to a U.S.-based journalist for the best writing on the subject of energy, natural resources or the environment. This award, with a $2,000 cash prize, is open to all media; the journalism may be reporting, analysis or commentary. All details and the application can be found here.
Why Americans are Working LongerThis week, NPF produced training on the aging workforce. Speakers covered pensions, social security, income inequality, public policy, education and more. Funding for this content was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. All video, audio and graphic content from the training can be found here.
Below are a few examples.
NPF Names 15 Journalists for Training on OpioidsThe training, to be held April 10 - 12 in San Diego, Calif., will address the science of addiction, public attitudes about and understanding of the disease, the latest clinical recommendations for effective treatment, impacts on families and communities, and more. With this grounding in hand, the fellows, listed below, will then cover the three-day American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Conference, with full access to presenters and abstracts.
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