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What National Headliners Awards prizes in editorial cartoons
The National Headliner Awards have been identifying clever commentary at the point of a brush since our early days. Among the up-and-coming editorial cartoonists we’ve discovered was one Herbert L. Block of the Newspaper Enterprise Association in 1940. He would go on to fame and prominence later as Herblock of The Washington Post. We like to say, yeah, but we saw him first. Nearly every major...

National Headliner Awards Recognizes Surge in Community Websites
Community digital-only news sites have shown growing vitality in National Headliner Awards entries as local print newspapers vanish. We put particular emphasis on attracting entries for the 2025 awards from the smallest to the largest digital-only sites. Judges were delighted with the response. From the tiniest start-up digital newsrooms to the larger, established and national ones, the devotion...
91st National Headliner Awards Winners Announced
Atlantic City, N.J. — The 91st National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United States in 2024 were announced today. The Press Club of Atlantic City...
And the Award Goes to … Excellent Podcasts
What an honor. I was invited to help judge this year’s National Headliner Awards. Now in its 90th year, these awards honor the best and the brightest in journalism and media....
Flashbulbs and Flashbacks: Awards Emphasize Innovative Reporting
National Headliners was hatched in 1934 from the bluff and bluster of publicity-hungry Atlantic City. Its midwife was the Press Club of Atlantic City.
Flashbulbs and Flashbacks: Women Honored Early by Headliners
In an industry dominated by men, it took Headliners nearly a decade to honor a woman. She was Helen Hiett, who demonstrated that shoe leather comes on dancing shoes, too.