The $200 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in 2019. Book chapters in edited collections also may be submitted.

The award recognizes the late Catherine L. Covert, professor of public communications at Syracuse University and former head of the History Division. 

An electronic copy in pdf form of the published article/essay/chapter should be submitted via email to Professor Sheila Webb, sheila.webb@wwu.edu, by March 1, 2020. The publication may be self-submitted or submitted by others, such as an editor or colleague.