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Entry deadline for the 2015 Al Nakkula Award for outstanding police reporting is March 9, 2015. Late entries will not be accepted. The award is co-sponsored by the 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó College of Media, Communication and Information and the Denver Press Club.

Entries should take the form of a story or series about one topic and/or event. They must be in electronic form, submitted toÌýbuffjournalism@gmail.com. Entries should include PDFs of the relevant stories or urls (if readily available to multiple judges regardless of paywall). Please also attach a cover letter of nomination, which may be from the entrant and/or his/her sponsoring publication.

The entry fee is $75 and the first-place prize is $2,000. The award is for work produced in print and/or online platforms in the United States in 2014. The winner will be invited to speak to classes at the 91ÃÛÌÒ¸ó College of Media, Communication and Information on Thursday, April 23, 2015 and to accept the award at the Denver Press Club’s Damon Runyon dinner on April 24, 2015. The second-place finisher will receive a certificate of merit. Sorry, this award is not for broadcast work.

The Nakkula Award is named for the late Al Nakkula, a 46-year veteran of the Rocky Mountain News, whose bulldog tenacity made him a legendary police reporter.

For questions please call Michelle P. Fulcher, 303-492-0460 or 303-809-0500.

Past Winners

2014 Winner:

Reporter Megan O’Matz and Database Editor John Maines
South Florida Sun Sentinel

2013 Winner:

Ryan Gabrielson
Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch

2012 Winner:

Gina Barton
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

2011 Winner:Ìý
Cris Barrish

2010 Winner:
Mark Puente

2009 Winner:
Karyn Spencer

2008 Winner:
Jonathan Schuppe

2007 Winner:
Robert Rogers

2006 Winner:
John Diedrich

2005 Winner:
Amber Hunt Martin

2004 Winner:
Del Quentin Wilber
Baltimore Sun

2003 Winner:
Stacy Finz

2002 Winner:
Stephanie Warsmith

2001 Winner:
Brigid O’Malley

Second Place
Vanessa Ho

2000 Winner:
Tom Searls

Second Place
Dawn Hobbs

1999 Winner:
Sean Gardiner
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1998 Winner:
Mark Truby

1997 Winner:
Andy Furillo

1996 Winner:
Pamela Hill

1995 Winner:
Melvin Claxton

1994 Winner:
William Hermann

1993 Winner:
J.D. Mullane

1992 Winner:
Scott Bowles

1991 Winner:
Diana K. Sugg