Awards

The Foundation sponsors the Charles E. Green Awards to honor journalists in Texas who produce the very best news reporting and design.

Each year, the Headliners Foundation, in cooperation with the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors (TAPME) and the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters (TAPB), sponsors an annual contest to identify the best works in journalism across the state for the previous year. Division winners in select categories of the Associated Press contests advance to compete for the overall distinction.

Approximately $17,000 in cash prizes is awarded to deserving journalists in Texas each year. Winners are announced at the TAPME and TAPB spring conferences, and the Charles E. Green Award winners (overall winners in each category, including a new one for best online package) are recognized at the Headliners Foundation annual Awards Luncheon at the Headliners Club in Austin each fall.

The Charles E. Green Awards (2011)

Listed below are the most recent winners (announced in the Spring of 2011) for the Charles E. Green Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Select the category you wish to inspect and you will access that winner’s entry materials, along with …

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“The American press, in whatever its form, has always been a little gaudy and noisy and self-important, but it is crucial to our system of government.”
Tom Brokaw
“The importance of excellence in journalism is known to most of us. But you might not have considered is how important is it to recognize exemplary journalism in today’s professionals and to educate tomorrow’s leaders regarding the role of the free and responsible press in our democracy.”
Walter Cronkite
Across Texas and across the United States, it’s getting harder to see government in action. We are in a grim game of information keepaway with city councils, county boards, state lawmakers and federal agencies.
Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press
“It is because of a free press and a free society that this nation maintains its freedom, its independence and its greatness.”
Gov. Ann Richards
“We must find ways to pass on to future generations a passion for the role which professional, balanced journalism plays in a free society.”
James Michener

Awards

The Charles E. Green Awards (2011)

Recent Contests

The Charles E. Green Awards (2010)

The Charles E. Green Awards (2009)

The Charles E. Green Awards (2008)

The Charles E. Green Awards (2007)

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