Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence (MORE) Awards

Entry forms for the 2010 MORE Awards are NOW available!
Recognizing excellence in furthering public understanding of musculoskeletal health and issues and encouraging healthy behaviors in the care of bones, joints, muscles and tendons. The MORE Awards – conducted by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons – (AAOS) recognizes and honors efforts by journalists that further the public’s understanding of musculoskeletal health issues and encourages healthy behaviors in the care of bones, joints and muscles.

The MORE Awards will be given to media in these following categories:

• National Consumer Print Journalism: newspapers, magazines
• Local Consumer Print Journalism: newspapers, magazines
• National Broadcast Journalism: television, radio
• Local Broadcast Journalism: television, radio
• Advocacy Journalism: newspaper, magazines, Internet, television, radio
• NEW - Internet-specific Consumer Journalism: stories created exclusively for an online audience

Eligibility

To qualify for a MORE Award all entrants must be journalists or freelance writers/editors/producers in either print, broadcast or online journalism. Entries must have either been published or broadcast between October 1, 2008 and October 1, 2009.

The MORE Awards will be presented and winners will be recognized in May 2010 at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference in Washington, DC.

Should you come across something you think may be a potential entry, please send an email to Kristina Findlay findlay@aaos.org or Lauren Pearson lpearson@aaos.org.

2010 MORE Award Call for Entries

• Read and Print Entry Form (PDF format)
• Open Entry Form and Type Your Entry

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