The Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association is seeking entries for the 2024 AAJA Portland Diversity and Inclusion Awards.

The awards will recognize the best journalism published during 2023 about issues that, through discrimination or structural inequity, disproportionately affect people of color or other under-resourced groups in Oregon and/or southwest Washington. AAJA Portland is particularly interested in work that focuses on antiracism and social justice.

Each award comes with a cash prize of $250. 

Deadline to enter: March 31, 2024

Cost to enter: Free, thanks to support from the Inatai Foundation.

Contest guidelines

Who’s eligible: Journalists who have covered issues in Oregon and/or Washington’s Clark County, including student journalists, except 2024 AAJA Portland board members. 

What’s eligible: Work published by an Oregon or southwest Washington news organization between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2023. This includes work by students, freelancers and interns. All media and formats are accepted but will be judged based on category.

Award categories: Judges will select one winner and one student winner* in each category. Judges may choose not to make an award.

• Arts, cultural or community journalism
• Political, business or economic journalism
• Data or investigative journalism
• Environmental, health or science journalism
• Sports journalism
• Opinion, commentary or essay 

*All creators with a byline or listed as a contributor must have been students at the time the work was created. Work from internships in professional newsrooms is acceptable as long as the creator was a student or created the work during an internship that began within three months of graduating.

Submissions

Submit entries as URLs only.

Questions: aaja.pdx@gmail.com