The 2024 Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability

The Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability is the only national journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage by college journalists.

Application 2024 | Application deadline: Jan. 10, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. PST

The contest is open to anyone who was enrolled in a U.S. or international college or university from July 1, 2023-Dec. 31, 2024.

Entries must have been published or aired between July 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2024, in a university-affiliated publication or program. Entries published in professional outlets will be accepted if the work was done as part of a college program, class or internship, and not as paid freelance work. Entries are accepted from digital, print, audio and broadcast media. For international entries, work submitted must be in English.

The entrant must have been enrolled as a student at the time of publication or broadcast. Work completed for internships or classes is acceptable if it meets the publication requirement.

The contest is administered by the National Center on Disability and Journalism, headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Please review that you have completed the required items before submitting a contest entry. If you have any questions or are having a problem with this form, please contact David Nitkin, dnitkin@asu.edu.