The Brodsky Prize for 2025

All New Hampshire public, charter, and parochial high school students are eligible for the $5,000 Brodsky Prize that Jeffrey Brodsky hopes will encourage out-of-the-box efforts and innovation by a new generation of student journalists.

2025 Application can be found HERE.

Deadline: April 28, 2025

THE Brodsky Prize Award CRITERIA

Who is eligible?

High school students who live in New Hampshire and attend public, charter or parochial schools. Students who live in a neighboring state, but attend a NH School, are also eligible.

Entry criteria:

Judges will consider a student’s journalistic initiative and enterprise, contrarian nature and out-of- the-box thinking, as well as other journalistic attributes such as spelling and grammar, attention-getting lead, fairness and accuracy and whether the entry clearly explains the issue it covers.

Entry requirements:

• Please respond to the following questions in essay format (up to 1000 words each):

  • How will new media technologies change the future of news and information? What role have you played or could you play in that change?

  • Solutions Journalism means rigorous reporting of responses to problems. How could you apply a Solutions Journalism approach to covering news in your community? (Learn more at https://loebschool.org/solutions-journalism-lab).

• Please tell us how you would use The Brodsky Prize award to further your journalistic studies or efforts (up to 200 words).

• Please submit three examples of your student journalism work, with at least two examples having been published in a school-run publication, having been used as part of your school’s communications, or printed/broadcast by a local news outlet.