The 2025 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 2025 | Application deadline: Jan. 12, 2026, by 11:59 p.m. PST

The contest is open to anyone who was enrolled in a U.S. or international college or university during the period when their work was published.

Entries must have been published or aired between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2025, via 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 or class, and not as paid freelance work or a paid internship with a professional outlet. 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. 

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.