It’s with pleasure that the Canadian Association of Journalists invites applications for its annual awards program — which includes Canada’s top investigative award, the Don McGillivray Award.

The application deadline for the CAJ Awards is Feb. 10, 2011 Feb. 15, 2011

The deadline for the CAJ / CNW Group Student Award of Excellence is Feb. 28, 2011.

Finalists should be announced in early April, with the awards presented during the CAJ’s annual conference in Ottawa, May 13-15, 2011.

Please download the application form(s) you need below. New this year, each application form is also available as a separate fillable PDF form — just fill out the highlighted fields in your PDF viewer, print and send it off with your submission and entry fee.

The forms:

• 2010 CAJ Awards (with printable application form) (four-page PDF)
• 2010 CAJ Award – application form only (one-page fillable PDF)
• 2010 CAJ / CNW Group student award (with printable application form) (two-page PDF)
• 2010 CAJ / CNW Group student award – application form only (one-page fillable PDF)

Information on the investigative, general and student awards is available here.

To read past CAJ Award winners’ stories and see how they did it, check out the awards editions of Media Magazine, which are archived here.

Good luck to all entrants!