Rules and Regulations
1. Only entries from ING members fully paid as of October 1, the entry deadline.
2. The final entry deadline is October 1 (entries must be postmarked by or before that date). Book Category deadline is Sept. 7.
3. Each ING member may submit a maximum of two entries per category. An article can not be entered into more than one category.
4. Publication/air dates for entries are between October 1 2009 and September 30 2010. Articles/photos/shows previously entered in this competition, even if reprinted or rebroadcast, are not permitted.
5. Article Entries: Four copies of each entry must be sent to the ING office. Entries must be postmarked on or before the contest deadline date. The master copy of each entry must have the media member's name and birth date in numbers (example: if birthday is Sept. 2, 1960, the birthdate number is 090260), contest category, media member's byline, publication name and date of publication. The three additional copies should only have the member's birth date number and category listed. Photo, graphics and sidebars DO NOT HAVE TO BE REMOVED. All multi-page submission must be secured with a staple in the upper left-hand corner.
6. Internet Article Entries: Follow all rules outlined in section 5, Article Entries. Also include a letter from the Internet site webmaster/editor, on company letterhead, authenticating the publication of the work and the date the piece was published on the web site. The text provided for judging must exactly match the text that was published on the web site.
7. Photography/Art/Illustration entries: Four copies of each entry must be sent to the ING office. Entries must be postmarked on or before the contest deadline date. The master copy of each entry must have the media member's name and birth date in numbers (example: if birthday is March 12, 1974, the birthdate number is 031274), contest category, media member's byline, publication name and date of publication. The three additional copies should only have the member's birth date number and category listed. Entries should be mounted on letter size paper (multiple pages secured together). One photograph or illustration constitutes an entry. Entries that include multiple images are disqualified.
8. Broadcast Entries: Four tapes should be provided. All should be marked with title of program. Entries must be postmarked on or before the contest deadline date. Each entry copy must have the media member's name and birth date in numbers (example: if birthday is October 22, 1954, the birthdate number is 102254) and the contest category clearly marked on it. At least one copy (the master copy) of the program also must include the media member byline, date of broadcast, broadcast station name, city, and call letters. Tapes must contain only the broadcast being entered.
9. Book Entries: Four copies of the book should be provided. The entry deadline for the book category is earlier than all other contests. Book entries must be postmarked on or before Sept. 7.
10. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form and placed in an envelope or file folder with the contest category clearly marked on the outside. In addition, clearly mark each individual entry as to contest category.
11. Co-authored/photographed/produced creations may be entered only once, regardless of how many members received bylines/credits. All entrants of co-authored materials must be ING members. Only one award is given.
12. Entry constitutes a waiver of copyright restrictions on reprinting or reproducing entries by ING only for promotion of the ING Media Awards Program. Entry materials will not be returned.
NOTE: Failure to follow all rules will result in disqualification.
