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The awards program honors excellence in 17 print, electronic and journalism education categories.

Judging of the National Journalism Awards will be in the following categories:

Editorial writing; human interest writing; environmental and public service reporting; investigative reporting; business/economics reporting; commentary; photojournalism; radio and television journalism; college cartooning; Web reporting; and editorial cartooning. The awards also honor distinguished service to journalism education and the First Amendment.

Two new categories also have been added. They are the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting and the Journalism Administrator of the Year Award.

Competition rules and a listing of categories are available on the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Web site at www.scripps.com/foundation. The deadline for entries is Jan. 31. The deadline for entries in the college cartoonist category is Jan. 7. The names of the winners of the National Journalism Awards will be announced March 11 and posted on the Foundation’s Web site.

“The Scripps Howard Foundation’s National Journalism Awards are among the most coveted in our profession largely because of the quality of the judging,” said Judith G. Clabes, the Foundation’s president and chief executive officer. “Each year we assemble a panel of respected journalism professionals to review hundreds of entries from across the country. They set a high standard of journalistic excellence by bringing a distinguished level of expertise and care to the judging process.”

Following are judges for this year’s awards:

Len Ackland, associate professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and co-director, Center for Environmental Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder; Andrew Alexander, Washington bureau chief, Cox Newspapers; Mark Anderson, photojournalist and producer; and Beth E. Barnes, director, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, University of Kentucky.

Roberta Baskin, executive director, Center for Public Integrity; J. Bruce Baumann, executive editor, Evansville (Ind.) Courier and Press; Drew Berry, vice president and general manager, WMAR-TV, Baltimore; Mary Kay Blake, senior vice president, Partnerships and Initiatives, The Freedom Forum; and Del Brinkman, journalism dean emeritus, University of Colorado and University of Kansas, and former director of journalism programs, Knight Foundation.

Terri Burke, editor, Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News; John Carroll, editor, Los Angeles Times; Lucy Shelton Caswell, professor and curator, Cartoon Research Library, The Ohio State University; Richard Cole, dean, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Peter Copeland, editor and general manager, Scripps Media Center, Scripps Howard News Service.

Phil Currie, senior vice president/news, newspaper division, Gannett Company; Jonathan Dube, managing producer MSNBC.com and Cyber Journalist, publisher; Greg Evans, Creator of “Luann” and 2004 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award winner; Michael R. Fancher, executive editor, The Seattle Times; and Tim Franklin, editor and senior vice president, The Baltimore Sun.

Tim Gallagher, president and publisher, Ventura County (Calif.) Star; Robert H. Giles, curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Juan Gonzalez, staff columnist, New York Daily News; Terry Harper, executive director, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Foundation; and Thomas Hodson, director, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University.

David Holwerk, editorial page editor, The Sacramento (Calif.) Bee; Alan Horton, retired senior vice president for newspapers, The E.W. Scripps Company; Carole Leigh Hutton, publisher and editor, Detroit Free Press; Terry Hynes, dean, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida; and Kenneth F. Irby, visual journalism group leader, The Poynter Institute.

Nick Jimenez, editorial page editor, Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times; Tim Kelly, president and publisher, The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader; Craig Klugman, editor, The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Bill Kovach, chairman, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Washington, D.C.; and Thomas Kunkel, dean Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.

Jef Mallett, FRAZZ creator; Walter R. Mears, retired, vice president and special correspondent, The Associated Press; Julie Moos, news editor/Poynter Online, The Poynter Institute; Eric Newton, director of journalism initiatives, Knight Foundation; John A. Nolan, Cincinnati correspondent, The Associated Press; and Robert M. O’Neil, professor of law, University of Virginia, and director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., columnist, Miami Herald, and Scripps Howard Visiting Professional, Hampton University; Mike Silverman, vice president and managing editor, The Associated Press; Sreenath Sreenivasan, new media professor, Columbia University, and technical reporter, WABC-TV, New York; and Rick Thames, editor, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer.

Scripps Howard Foundation is a leader in industry efforts in journalism education, scholarships, internships, literacy, minority recruitment/development and First Amendment causes.