Call for entries: Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting

The entry period is now open for the 2022 Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Entries can be submitted online. Deadline is Jan. 17, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Two Toner Prizes will be given—one for local political reporting, and one for national political reporting. Each carries a $5,000 honorarium.

 Toner Prizes will go to reporting that:

• illuminates the electoral process, with a special focus on coverage of candidates, campaigns or elections; or
• reveals the politics of policy and
• engages the public in democracy.

To be eligible for consideration, stories must have been published, posted or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021.

The Toner Prizes honor late Syracuse University alumna Robin Toner ’76, the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times. They are part of the Robin Toner Program in Political Reporting at the Newhouse School.

 For more information, contact Toner Program administrator Charlotte Grimes at cgrimes@syr.edu.