Time to showcase your best work from 2025!
Awards Info
2026 Contest Guide
Early Deadline: Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. – $15 per entry
Final Deadline: Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. – $20 per entry
Special honors include a new cash prize for fisheries reporting, the A-Mark Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Public Service Award, a Journalism Leadership Award and the First Amendment Award.
You do not need to be an Alaska Press Club Member to enter the awards competition.
HOW TO ENTER
If you are using Better BNC for the first time or you are an Open Call/Freelance Contestant there is a validation process you have to go through. Please make sure you have working links or PDFs of your work. If your links are under a paywall, you must use the comments section on the entry forms to give judges a login.
You may start a collection of things you might like to enter and finalize entries before deadline. You can edit your entries up until the final awards deadline.
Review the Submit Entries links to help you get started.
Any contest related questions can be sent to alaskapressclubinfo@gmail.com.
Better Newspaper Contest staff may also be able to better answer your questions. Use their online support form.
JUDGES FEEDBACK
We’ve received some great feedback from our judges on the quality of entries in the Alaska Press Club Awards. Here’s some of what they had to say:
“Judging this contest felt like a near-impossible task. Almost all of the entries could have earned first-place recognition. It’s comforting to know the residents of Alaska have such capable watchdogs holding the criminal justice system accountable.”
Judge for Best Legal Affairs Reporting, 2021
“Having judged countless competitions, I am not exaggerating in saying that viewers of television news in Alaska are the beneficiaries of some of the finest feature reporting anywhere.”
Judge for TV Best Feature, 2021
“I’ve been a contest judge for more than 15 years and in multiple states. This is the most compelling, robust environmental reporting I have ever seen. The competition this year went above and beyond anything I had hoped to watch, listen to or read as a judge. I must salute all of the journalists who submitted entries in this category. Your work goes beyond Alaska to issues about which all Americans should be informed. Really well done!”
Judge for Best Environmental Reporting, 2021
Past Awards
Results of the 2024 and past contests.
Read about the Public Service Award winners and honorable mentions.
Learn about the First Amendment Award and former recipients.
Questions: Any contest related questions can be sent to alaskapressclubinfo@gmail.com.
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