Recognizes a journalist or team of journalists from small market news organizations representing distinct geographic communities whose work exemplifies enterprise, innovation and excellence in shining a light on significant issues in the community.
Submissions may be print/digital, TV/video or radio/audio or a combination thereof. A maximum of 60 minutes of audio/video material or 5 URLs of related material can be entered into this category.
Requirements for Submission
In order to be eligible for a Webster Award you must meet all of the following REVISED general requirements and the specific eligibility requirements for each award.
- Story Choice:
- Why was this story important to tell?
- Craft:
- Is the story well told, compelling and properly explained?
- What degrees of research, resourcefulness, persistence and creativity were exhibited in telling this story?
- Impact and Relevance:
- As reported, what was the impact on the community/issue?
- As reported, what changed as a result of the story?
- Is the story relevant, creative, significant or original?
- Context:
- What did the story tell us about how we live now or did it deepen understanding of our history?
- Balance and Diversity:
- Was the work fair to those portrayed in and affected by the story?
- Does the work reflect the community by including a range of diverse voices and perspectives in the coverage?
- You must be a BC-based journalist, or if it is a team submission the majority of those on the team must be BC-based journalists,
- For a team submission, list each person’s name and the name of the city/town where they reside,
- Submissions must report on stories of interest for BC audiences,
- Only submissions published/aired between June 1 of the previous calendar year and May 31 of the current calendar year are eligible,
- Submissions must have been published in journalism sources, including but not limited to, online, print, video, broadcast, podcast, radio, blogs, newscast, etc.
- Submissions are encouraged from the gamut of media departments/sections, including news, sports, the arts, business, etc.
- Published journalism as a result of the journalist(s) winning the Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Journalism Fellowship is not eligible to be entered for a Webster Award.
- You must complete an online form for each submission,
- You can enter a story or series in only one category, however you can submit as many different entries as you like,
- A fee of $25 per submission. Major credit cards will be accepted for payment,
- Your submission must include a 200-word synopsis about the submission, explaining the story’s background, significance,impact and any other information you consider pertinent,
- Aside from the synopsis, you must upload your major story to be reviewed, and should you be a finalist or the winner, this will be the story available for the public to access,
- You may then include up to a MAXIMUM of 4 other uploads, to support your entry,
- If uploading audio or video, a maximum of a sum total of 60 minutes is allowed for each submission. You may include one file of 60 minutes or several files of segments from your broadcast but do not edit the segments from how they appeared in the original broadcast,
- For any submissions that appeared in hard copy/print, please upload a PDF showing the actual page(s) published and make sure it can be read,
- Only one story should be in any PDF uploaded,
- For online text-based submissions, or regarding submissions in the Multimedia category, please upload a readable screen grab as your story was displayed, or a PDF’d version of this, or if need be, provide a link to the story that is not behind a paywall,
- For radio/audio/podcast entries, please provide an MP3 audio file no greater than 2GB in size,
- For TV/Video entries, please provide a video in the following formats: MP4,MPG, or MPEG no greater than 2GB in size
