If you are planning to travel, make the case for the specific schools you will visit. The bestproposals identify school sites and say why they were chosen. This detail will help you focusyour thinking. If also gives the judges a way to look at how prepared you are to carry out aproject. A letter signed by the managing editor will be required next year to make sure that the newsroomhas made a commitment to the project.
Editor changes as the project moves forward can greatly delay a project or knock it off track.
While this endorsement doesn't resolve all issues, it mayprovide a way to assure that a new editor won't re-cast the project at the end. A Biographical Statement Clever and interesting is o.k., but this statement also ought to tell the judges where you work,what your beat is, and how long you have been covering it. The idea is to give the judges a sense of your writing and your ability to handle a project. Tryto provide stories that have some bearing on the topic you are proposing. A few will suffice.