The Miami Herald was honored with both of the Florida Press Club’s top awards Jan. 31, with the club’s Frances DeVore Award for Public Service going to a tale of how prosecutors’ gift of full immunity to a confessed murderer unraveled three murder cases. Miami Herald reporters Brittany Wallman and Sarah Blaskey won the top prize, named after the club’s …
Congrats to the 2025 finalists in FPC’s Excellence in Journalism Competition
The finalists for the Florida Press Club’s Excellence in Journalism Competition are in and we’re ready to celebrate being in the best state of journalism! Great thanks to all who entered. The level of competition for the 75th anniversary of the Florida Press Club proves this enterprise is alive and kicking … some butt! Don’t read anything into the order …
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2023-24 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism Competition
Thank you to all who entered! You are ALL winners, as far as we’re concerned, considering how chronicling the Sunshine State is its own reward! Right? Please see the list of finalists and send corrections to fpcpresident@gmail.com. Apologies for any misspellings or assignment to the wrong publication or errant hyphen in places they shouldn’t be (we’ve been a bit bleary-eyed …
Call to the Florida Press Club’s 2023 Excellence in Journalism Competition
You’re reading this because you are one of the lucky ones who gets to bring home just how interesting subject-verb-object combinations can get since you cover the news in Florida. Make the most of that privilege now! It’s time to win the glory for THAT story. You know, the one that made muddling through the daily wind tunnel that is …
Congrats to the finalists in FPC’s Excellence in Journalism Competition!
Please join us in congratulating the finalists in our annual Excellence in Journalism Competition! Now, don’t go reading anything into the order of these names … who won top honors won’t be revealed until our annual gala (now in person!!) scheduled for Jan. 14, 2023 in Daytona Beach. Yes, we had a few hurricane-related snafus that delayed the timing… Hope to …
The Florida Press Club’s 2024 Excellence in Journalism Contest is open!!
You got that story so now it’s time to win the glory! The Florida Press Club’s 2024 Excellence in Journalism Competition is now open! Here’s where you enter! And please, when you do, turn OFF your pop-up blockers! For more than 60 years, the contest has been recognizing the best in Florida Journalism. Its top prize, the Frances DeVore Award …