The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) annually offers the Science in Society Journalism Awards for outstanding investigative or interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact for good and bad - especially the kind of critical, probing article that would not receive an award from an interest group. Beginning with the first award in 1972, previous winners have demonstrated innovative reporting well beyond the science itself and into its ethical problems and social effects.

NASW will award separate cash prizes of USD $1,000 for writing judged best in each of these five categories: newspaper, magazine, broadcast, book, and Web. Winners and their publishers/broadcasters will also receive certificates.

The awards will be presented at an NASW reception in October 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Reasonable travel and hotel expenses of the award winners will be reimbursed. In cases of multiple authors or producers, only one person's expenses will be covered.

Eligibility

Any writer (or team) is eligible to submit not more than three entries in each category. Material may be a single article or broadcast, or a series. Series will be considered to be single entries. Work must be written or spoken in English, intended for the lay person, and first published or broadcast in North America between June 1 2004 and December 31 2005. The publication or broadcast date will be governing. Book entries must have 2004 or 2005 copyright date. Web-based materials that supplement work first published in print or broadcast are not eligible on their own and should be submitted with print or broadcast entries. The original of a story transmitted by a news service will be eligible. Winners of last year's awards and individuals who have won three times are not eligible.

Click here for more information and an online application form.

Send entries, postmarked by February 1 2006, to:

National Association of Science Writers

P.O. Box 890

Hedgesville, WV 25427

United States