{"id":5612,"date":"2018-10-22T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:18:52","slug":"acp-announces-new-local-climate-change-reporting-competition-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/2018\/10\/22\/acp-announces-new-local-climate-change-reporting-competition-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"ACP announces new Local Climate Change Reporting competition for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is arguably the most important story of our generation. A new Associated College Press Individual Award category has been established to encourage localized climate change reporting by college media.<\/p>\n<p>Entries in this contest should be in-depth reporting about climate change impacts and or solutions from a localized angle. In-depth reporting packages can appear in print or online or both.\u00a0 Long-form stories should be accompanied by sidebars, graphics and data. Videos are also encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cACP is excited to offer this new contest and partnership with the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication,\u201d said Laura Widmer, ACP executive director. \u201cClimate change is such a relevant topic with many stories to be reported on the local level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A similar competition is being offered for high school media by the National Scholastic Press Association.<\/p>\n<p>Student journalists are encouraged to sign up for <em>Climate Matters in the Newsroom<\/em>, a free collection of reporting resources.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GENERAL RULES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This contest is open only to student media with a current membership in ACP as of the contest deadline of June 7, 2019. Online submission of awards begins on December 3, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Any student on the staff of an ACP member media outlet is eligible to enter.<\/li>\n<li>Entries must have been published in print or online between August 1, 2018 and June 7, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Only one entry per category per media outlet is allowed.<\/li>\n<li>A single PDF file should be submitted containing the story package exactly as it appeared in print. A link may be provided for online and broadcast reporting. All reporting must have been published in an ACP member media outlet.<\/li>\n<li>The contest will be judged by a panel of three including two judges selected by ACP and a judge selected by the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.<\/li>\n<li>Finalists will be announced no later than October 1, 2019. Winners will be honored at the ACP\/CMA National College Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C., Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is arguably the most important story of our generation. A new Associated College Press Individual Award category has been established to encourage localized climate change reporting by college media. Entries in this contest should be in-depth reporting about climate change impacts and or solutions from a localized angle. In-depth reporting packages can appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}