Award Standards
According to the criteria outlined by the Awards Committee and accepted by the CPA board of directors, nominees for the award should "clearly have acted in their role as publisher; and clearly should have acted in defense of their publication or used their publication, in accordance with its mission, to defend the First Amendment rights of the publisher, the institution owning the publication, and/or the Church as a whole.”
Who You Should Nominate
According to the criteria outlined by the Awards Committee and accepted by the CPA board of directors, nominees for the award should "clearly have acted in their role as publisher; and clearly should have acted in defense of their publication or used their publication, in accordance with its mission, to defend the First Amendment rights of the publisher, the institution owning the publication, and/or the Church as a whole.” This award is given to a publisher who may or may not be a bishop.
Selection Process
The recipient will be selected from nominees by a committee composed of Catholic Press Association past presidents. The winner will be announced at the 2012 Catholic Media Conference in Indianapolis.