First-, second- and third-place awards for EDITORIALS and COLUMNS will be presented Oct. 21 during an awards luncheon at the Senior Leadership Conference in Charleston.
Separate awards will be presented in each category for newspapers under 35,000 and those over 35,000 circulation.
In alphabetical order, the "under 35,000 circulation" and "over 35,000 circulation" finalists in this year's Carmage Walls Commentary Prize competition are:
For COLUMNS:
For EDITORIALS:
In addition to recognition and beautiful plaques, cash awards also will be presented as follows in each of the four contest brackets: first-place, $2,250; second-place, $1,000; and third-place, $500. This puts total cash prizes at $15,000 — thanks to the generous support of Lissa Walls Cribb and Southern Newspapers, Inc.
Additional Honorable Mentions also will be announced Oct. 21.
Watch for the announcement of awards on the America's Newspapers website on the afternoon of Oct. 21.
The prize is named for the late Benjamin Carmage Walls whose newspaper career spanned seven decades. Walls primarily owned community newspapers and advocated strong, courageous and positive editorial page leadership.