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The Green Eyeshade Awards honor excellence in professional journalism across several media platforms — newspapers, magazines, radio, television, photography and online.

Entries must be the work of journalists working in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or West Virginia.

The Atlanta Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists started the Green Eyeshade Awards in 1950 to recognize journalistic excellence in the southeast. Regional directors for the Society now administer the competition.

The Society of Professional Journalists works to improve and protect journalism. The organization is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.

Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry, works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press.