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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Feb. 26 is extended deadline for entries in Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which usually have some non-metropolitan winners

The deadline for entries in the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which have categories won in the past by journalists in non-metropolitan news media, has been extended to 11:59 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26.

In the contest, newspapers have a division for those with circulations under 50,000; last year the public-service prize was captured by Jonathan Austin, then of the Virgin Islands Daily News, for an expose' on official travel, and Sarah Butrymowicz and Jackie Mader of The Hechinger Report, an education news site, won for investigative reporting in the division for a series on child care in Mississippi.

Several rural-oriented reports won Sigma Delta Chi awards in broadcasting, which has a division for smaller markets. Alabama Public Radio won for a series on justice and prison reform, and North Country Public Radio in upstate New York won for public service in radio journalism for a series on a murder and its investigation.

The awards are sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists and its Sigma Delta Chi Foundation. For information, click here.

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