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The AltWeekly Awards honor superior journalism and graphic design among alternative newsweeklies across the United States and Canada. The contest seeks to promote excellence by recognizing work that is well written, incisively reported and effectively challenges established orthodoxies.
The first contest was organized in 1996. Each year since, awards have been presented in more than a dozen categories, with two circulation divisions in each category. This year, AAN welcomes Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism as our administrative partner. The collaboration is the latest in a series of AAN/Medill ventures, which include the Academy for Alternative Journalism and the annual Alternative Journalism Writers and Designers Workshop.
The contest deadline for the 2008 cycle has passed.
Best AltWeekly Writing and Design 2007, a book that showcases the first-place winners of the 2007 AltWeekly Awards, also will be available at the beginning of December. The book features the text of the winning articles, full-color shots of winning designs, judges' commentary and judges' bios. Copies of the 2005 and 2006 editions are still available.
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