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Chess Journalists of America
Award Competition
Chess Journalists of America
Press Release
March 15, 2000
The Chess Journalists of America announce their annual awards for materials
appearing in chess publications in the past year. These prestigious awards are
open to all chess journalists published in print journals in the U.S.
A new category has been introduced for internet journalists:
Best Online Article. There are no restrictions on the content
of this article. The CJA has a web site where you may contact
the officers of the group: http://chessjournalism.org/.
Anyone wishing to be a judge should contact the CJA president,
Pete Tamburro, at Ptamburro@aol.com.
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The step-by-step procedure for all entrants is as follows:
- Submit one original and four photocopies
(or four originals) for each entry.
- All entries must have been published
between June 1, 1999 and May 31, 2000.
- There is no limit to the number of entries
which can be made.
- The entry fee for the first item is $15,
which includes membership in CJA. Current CJA members will have
their membership extended one year. The second through fifth entry
are $5 additionally for each entry. Entries from one publication
after the first five shall be free for all the additional entries.
- Each entry shall have an 8.5 by 11 cover
sheet indicating the category (if more than one category, must be
submitted in separate packets), the name of the publication (mag.,
nwspr., website, etc.) the entry appears in.
- The deadline for submission is July 1,
2000.
- Send entries to the Chief Judge: Helen
Warren, P.O. Box 305, Western Springs, IL 60558-0305.
- For acknowledgement of your entry, include
a self-addressed, stamped postcard.
- Award categories follow.
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Magazine Editor Award Categories
Category 1
Chess Journalist of the Year
The deadline for nominations closes on July 1.
Category 2
Best State Magazine,
Open Division
Limited to the official publication of state chess associations.
Enter any three consecutive issues.
Category 3
Best State Magazine,
under 1000 circulation
Limited to the official publication of state chess associations.
Enter any three consecutive issues.
Category 4
Best Club Bulletin
Limited to the official publication of local chess clubs. Enter any three consecutive issues.
Category 5
Best Postal Magazine
Limited to the official publication of postal chess organizations.
Enter any three consecutive issues.
Category 6
Best New Magazine
Limited to publications, not newspapers, unconnected with lesser
organizational memberships, thereby being ineligible for state, club, or postal
categories. (This category includes Chess Life, Inside Chess, etc. It could also include
electronic serical publications, but does not include a series of books such as the informants.)
Category 7
Most Improved Magazine
Enter any two current-year issues and any one previous-year issue.
Include information as to how the magazine has been improved. Open to all magazines.
Category 8
Best Cover
Open to all magazines. Enter a cover that demonstrates how the publication combines the masthead
with other graphic elements to put its best face forward.
An editor or publisher may enter more than one cover in this category,
with each different cover consisting as a submission.
Category 9
Best Layout
Open to
all magazines. Enter any one issue that demonstrates how the
publication uses headlines, paragraphing, graphics, and printing
processes to organize and highlight its material.
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Magazine Author Award Categories
Category 10
Best Regular Magazine Column
Limited to writers of regular magazine columns. Enter three consecutive columns
that demonstrate how the columnist consistently maintains high standards. Be sure to include
the dates of publication.
Category 11
Best Magazine Tournament Report
Limited to writers of magazine articles. Enter one article, including any crosstables,
photos and games, reporting on one tournament, league, or match.
Newspaper Author Award Categories
Category 12
Best Regular Newspaper Column
Limited to writers of local, metropolitan, or syndicated newspaper columns.
Enter any three consecutive columns that demonstrate how the columnist consistently
maintains high quality.
Category 13
Best Newspaper Column of Local Interest
Limited to writers of local or metropolitan newspaper columns.
Enter three columns that demonstrate consistent coverage of chess generated
by local residents.
Category 14
Best Newspaper Tournament Report
Limited to writers of local, metropolitan, or syndicated newspaper columns.
Enter one article, including any crosstables, photos, and games, reporting on one tournement,
match, or league.
General Author/Artist Award Categories
Category 15
Best Chess Promotion
Enter one article or column aimed at bringing new people into chess, or increasing the
participation of those only mildly interested.
Category 16
Best Press Release
Enter the original press release announcing or reporting a chess tournament or other
chess-related topic.
Must identify at least one chess newspaper or other
publication that publishes material based upon the release.
Category 17
Best Human Interest Story
Enter a story, article, column, or anecdote in which the center of interest
is not chess itself, but the lives, emotions,
and character of the people who play chess.
Category 18
Best Historical Article
Enter an article that describes the development
of chess organizations, activities, styles, or players.
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Category 19
Best Interview
Enter an interview with a chess personality that demonstrates the skill
of the interviewer in eliciting instructive and revealing responses.
Category 20
Best Editorial
Enter an editorial that takes a clear stand and urges a particular
course of action in connection with a chess-related theme.
Category 21
Best Humorous Contribution
Enter any non-graphic material, such as jokes, satire, irony, parody, or exageration,
with a chess theme that makes the reader smile, chuckle, or laugh.
Category 22
Best Review
Enter a review of a single book, play, movie, computer program, etc.,
that has a chess-related theme.
Category 23(a)
Best Analysis, Openings
Category 23(b)
Best Analysis, Endings
Category 23(c)
Best Analysis, Other
Enter an article that demonstrates deep study of a particular opening, ending, or other
type of deep study, such as a complete game, or fragment of a game.
Category 24
Best Instruction
Enter an article or column that attempts to teach something about chess to
average players. This must be something more than a typical annotated game.
Category 25
Best Cartoon
Enter a single cartoon or a cartoon strip with a chess-related theme.
Category 26
Best Chess Art
Enter a single work of art with a chess-related theme. The artwork must have
been used in some manner other than just as a work of art. The usage must also be submitted.
Category 27
Best Chess Photograph
Enter a single photograph with a chess-related theme that has been used in some
chess-related manner.
A stand-alone photograph not used in a journalistic manner is not appropriate.
Category 28
Best New Chess Book
Limited to books by U.S. authors published in the last year.
Category 31
Best Online Article
Enter one article.
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