With the 2016 column contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists now open, writers interested in submitting three pieces they published or posted in 2015 might find insight from the first-place entries from the previous year.
Following are links to the winning columns of the six 2015 winners in the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Each entrant was required to submit three columns originally published in calendar 2014.
Contest A: General Interest, Over 50,000 Circulation — Dave Lieber and Marina Trahan Martinez, The Dallas Morning News
- “Looking at the Man Who Killed My Friend“
- “Texas DPS, Here Are the Facts on Fingerprinting“
- “Lawyer in Trouble with Client Set to Be New Judge“
Contest B: Humor, Over 50,000 Circulation — Betsy Bitner, Times Union, Albany, New York
- “A Time to Reach Out and Touch Someone“
- “SAT Poses a Parental Test“
- “That CSA Bounty Put Us in a Pickle“
Contest C: General Interest, Under 50,000 Circulation — Amanda Beam, News and Tribune, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Contest D: Humor, Under 50,000 Circulation — Roger Simon, Politico
Contest E: Online, Blog, Multimedia, Over 100,000 Unique Visitors — Michael Daly, The Daily Beast
- “The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie“
- “A True Tough Guy: The Mafia, Gays and Michael Sam’s Boyfriend“
- “Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household“
Contest F: Online, Blog, Multimedia, Under 100,000 Unique Visitors — Jennifer Munro, Straight-no-Chaser Mom
