The 2023 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism will honor outstanding local and national journalism that informs and empowers citizens and serves as a watchdog and advocate for democratic norms and institutions.
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Those norms and institutions are now under assault. A principal weapon against them: disinformation.

Disinformation threatens democracy. It corrupts public discourse, poisons civil society and normalizes hate and violence.

Entries that demonstrate the best practices of TV journalism aimed at combating disinformation and defending democracy will win the 2023 Walter Cronkite Awards. 

The biennial Cronkite Awards competition is administered by the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
 
USC Annenberg also partners with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania to present the Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking. The prize is named for the founding director of FactCheck.org.

(Note: The Cronkite Award shares its entry management platform with the Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society, whose name will appear on your browser tab.)