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The Front Page Award is an award given by the Newswomen's Club of New York to honor journalistic achievement by women. It has been given annually since 1937.

The awards were initially divided into three divisions – straight reporting assignments for a single story or a series of articles; regular features exclusively in the feminine field, including fashion columns, or sewing or cooking departments; any column or feature, including editorials, written consistently by a women. Broadcast and magazine categories were added in 1972.

The first prizes awarded in 1937 were $100 each. Illuminated scrolls were added to the cash prizes in 1940. Cash awards were replaced by U.S. war bonds during World War II  and U.S. savings bonds after the war.

Scholarships were awarded to female students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as part of the Front Page Awards ceremony beginning in 1948. The club created a scholarship fund in 1945 and awarded the first $200 scholarship to Laura Hoyle Davis at its annual town hall meeting on March 31, 1946. In 1954, the Anne O'Hare McCormick Journalism Scholarship was created in honor of the late foreign correspondent and editorial board member of The New York Times, and first awarded in 1955 to Mary Kay Johnson of Wakefield, Rhode Island.