Call For Nominations

From Roy Peter Clark:

Chip Scanlan and I have been asked to do a third edition of the Bedford book: “America’s Best Newspaper Writing.” The first edition was a historical anthology of the best of the best from the ASNE Writing Awards competition and books.

This go-around, Chip and I would like to expand the pool of potential stories beyond ASNE winners. So we are looking to add about 15 stories from these categories:

deadline writing local reporting and beats business and explanatory obituaries and funerals crime and courts opinion and persuasion the profile and feature story war and disaster

We are open to nominations from the readers of Gangrey. Please nominate one of your own stories, or one that stands out for you from another writer.

We are looking for newspaper stories only. It would be cool if the story won some award, but even that is not necessary. For example, I’m nominating Kelley Benham’s obituary of Terri Schiavo. You can send your nominations to me at rclark@poynter.org, or hash them over on Gangrey. Thanks. – RPC