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2025 CHESAPEAKE AP BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION CONTEST

The contest is open January 1, 2026 through February 17, 2026

CONTEST ENTRY LINK

ENTER HERE

RULES & CATEGORIES

 

New this year for Radio & TV!


BEST DIGITAL-FIRST STORYTELLING: SOCIAL VIDEO – Entry is a single or set of vertical videos created and edited specifically for social media audiences and distribution.  


 BEST MULTI-PLATFORM STORYTELLING: Entry demonstrates creative coverage of a story with clips that can include multimedia, documents, data, social or interactive elements to expand beyond a traditional broadcast piece.


 BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: Entries must demonstrate original journalistic enterprise and clearly demonstrate research of documents, records and/or data.


 OUTSTANDING WEEKEND NEWSCAST: Stations may enter a weekend newscast that aired on any Saturday or Sunday during the contest year, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2025.

 

OUTSTANDING POLITICAL COVERAGE: Individual story or series on a political topic.

   

 Also new is a disclaimer that MUST be initialed (or explained) for each entry if you used Artificial Intelligence to generate any part of your entry.  

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