We'd appreciate your help in spreading the word about our first-ever Society of Professional Journalists Photo Contest in Cleveland. You can forward this e-mail (see link at the bottom of the page) or send people to our website, where the details are all spelled out and anyone can download entry forms and contest guidelines. We hope you will enter too!
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It's a juried contest for all types of photographers, with categories ranging from news to nature. There are regular and student sections. We have an impresssive, five-member panel of judges including Plain Dealer Director of Photography
Bill Gugliotta, Canton Repository Chief Photographer Stan Myers, Toledo Blade Chief Photographer Dave Zapotosky and Akron Beacon-Journal Director of Photography Kimberly Barth, and Detroit Free Press Manager of Digital Media and photographer Nancy Andrews.
The entry deadline is April 4. Matted prints should be sent to Professor Carrie Buchanan, Tim Russert Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, John Carroll University, 20700 North Park Blvd., University Hts. OH 44118 and digital copies sent to Audrey McCrone by e-mail for distribution to the judges. There is more info on how to enter the contest below and on our website.
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How to Enter Details and forms are downloadable from our website.
Entry fees are: - $25 for non-SPJ members
- $15 for members
- $10 for students
Prizes will come from accumulated entry fees in each category. If there are too few entries in any category, judges will be asked to switch photos to another category that most closely corresponds to the one entered. All entered photos must be matted on black, following contest guidelines. They will be displayed from April 11 to May 1 in the Dolan Hall Art Gallery at John Carroll University. At the closing ceremonies and awards presentation on Sunday, May 1 from 2-4 p.m., prints will be auctioned off, with all proceeds going to the Phillip W. Porter Scholarship Fund, which supports journalism students with $1,000 per year for each of their four years in college.
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For more information, please see our website and/or contact SPJ Cleveland board members Audrey McCrone or Carrie Buchanan.
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About Us  The Society of Professional Journalists works to improve and protect journalism. SPJ is dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi and based in Indianapolis, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed public, works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists, and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press.
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