• Newspaper
• Magazine
• Television News
• Television Feature (news magazine/talk show)
• Radio
• Internet
• Patient Safety (New Category)

For each category: Entries will be accepted from national, regional and local media, one winner will be chosen.

All types of articles and broadcasts related to aesthetic (cosmetic) plastic surgery qualify for consideration. Entries for the 2008 competition must have been published or aired between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.

Nominations may be made by journalists themselves, plastic surgeons who are members or candidates of ASAPS, ASAPS staff, or plastic surgery regional societies. More than one entry may be submitted for each journalist.

Attach a completed entry form (or a photocopy of it) to each entry. Newspaper and magazine articles should be submitted in original, published form (no photocopies). Internet articles must be submitted as screen print-outs. Television entries are preferred in DVD format, but VHS format will also be accepted. Radio entries must be submitted on CD. For all television and radio category entries, total running time should appear on the DVD or CD label. ASAPS is not responsible for loss or damage to any entry submitted. Entries will not be returned. Entrants are requested to keep copies of their entry. When articles or broadcasts are produced as a series, all the parts must be submitted as one entry.

Entries must be received by the ASAPS Communications Office no later than February 15, 2008. Submissions received after that date cannot be considered.

A panel of communications professionals and plastic surgeons will evaluate each article or broadcast according to the following criteria:

• Accuracy of information and balanced reporting
• Interest, originality and journalistic style

(Note: No award will be given in a category if the judges determine that none of the entries meets the awards criteria.)

Since the Journalistic Achievement Awards were established in 1991, ASAPS has recognized the following media as either winners or runners-up:

• Newspaper: Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Oklahoma Gazette, Orange County Register, The New York Times, The Record, Rocky Mountain News, The Tennessean, Suburban Chicago's Daily Herald, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
  
• Magazine: Allure, America West, American Health, Consumer's Digest, D Magazine, Elle, Essence, FDA Consumer Magazine, Glamour, Men's Fitness, Mirabella, Sacramento Magazine, Scottsdale Life, Self, Town and Country, Vogue, The Washingtonian
  
• Television: ABC-TV "20/20," ABC-TV "Good Morning America," America's Health Network, CBS-TV "Early Show", CNN's Investigative Unit, CNN Live Today, CNN's Medical News Unit, Film Garden Entertainment, KDFW-TV (Dallas, TX), KDVR-TV (Denver, CO), KGTV (San Diego, CA), KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, CA), KOVR-TV (Sacramento, CA), KSTU-TV (Salt Lake City, UT), "Montel Williams Show", NBC-TV "Dateline," NBC-TV Nightly News, NBC-TV "Today Show," New York 1 News (New York, NY), News 12 Long Island, PBS HealthWeek, PBS "To The Contrary", WABC-TV (New York, NY), WBAL-TV (Baltimore, MD), WCBS-TV (New York), WCVB-TV(Boston, MA), WESH-TV (Orlando, FL), WFAA-TV (Dallas, TX), WPIX-TV (New York, NY), WPLG-TV (Miami, FL), WSCV Channel 51 Telemundo (Hialeah, FL), WSMV-TV (Nashville, TN), WTTW-TV (Chicago, IL), WTVJ-TV (Miami, FL), WVIA-TV(Pittston, PA)
  
• Radio: KERA 90.1 (Dallas, TX), KGO-AM (San Francisco, CA), KSDO-AM (San Diego, CA), WCTC-AM (New Brunswick, NJ), WWBA Morning Magazine (Tampa, FL), WYVN-FM (Holland, MI)
  
• Internet: CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Healthscoutnews.com, Philly.com, Reuters.com, WebMD , WSJ.com

Award recipients will be notified by May 1, 2008. Winners in each category will receive a personalized certificate. Judges may also give special recognition to several entries in each category by awarding certificates of merit. Winners will be named in a nationally distributed press release. Winners will be honored at an awards ceremony during the ASAPS annual meeting, scheduled for May 2-6, 2008 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

The ASAPS Communications Office will assist winners in making travel arrangements to the awards ceremony, including pre-paid coach airfare and two nights hotel stay. If a recipient is unable to participate in the awards ceremony, no cash equivalent for the airfare and hotel room will be given. All incidental travel expenses will be the winners' responsibility.

More Information

American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Communications Office
36 West 44th Street, Suite 630
New York, NY 10036

E-mail: media@surgery.org
Tel: 212.921.0500
Fax: 212.921.0011

Website: www.surgery.org

Download the 2008 Journalistic Achievement Awards entry form in MS Word format.