Journalism awards
Please email information about your awards for journalists to clare at journalism.co.ukPress Gazette Student Media Awards
Deadline: 19/05/08Details: Open to all students participating in a journalism course from 22/06/07 to 22/06/08, these awards will recognise outstanding contributions from student journalists of all ages and across a variety of media.
Categories include: Include editor, journalist and scoop of the year.
Prize: As well as awards, there are cash prizes for each winner.
Sponsors include: The Press Gazette
Contact name: Ros Maughan
Address: Events Co-ordinator, Press Gazette, Paulton House, 8 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7LB
Email: rmaughan@pressgazette.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/MOTIO/
2008 Online Journalism Awards
Deadline: 31/05/08Details: These awards are dedicated exclusively to recognising achievement in online journalism. This year sees the expansion of the awards with the addition of two new categories.
Categories include: Knight Public Service Award; general excellence in online journalism; breaking news; specialty journalism; enterprise journalism; service journalism; online commentary; creative use of the medium; student journalism.
Sponsors include: The Online News Association
Address: PO Box 2022, Radio City Station, New York NY 10101-2022 USA
Telephone: (646) 290-7900
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/KLDCD/
Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism
Deadline: 31/05/08Details: One award, named in memory of the great trans-Atlantic journalist and commentator, of up to $40,000 towards the first year of a Master's in Journalism or for specialist study leading to a career in Journalism.
Prize: Up to $40,000 plus health insurance and university application and test fees.
Address: Fulbright Awards Programme Staff, Fulbright House, 62 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2JZ
Email: programmes@fulbright.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/RTNFO/
New Media Awards 2008
Deadline: 01/06/08Details: These awards aim to recognise those that have realised the potential of new media technologies and solutions and used them effectively.
Categories include: Democracy in action, inform and educate, community activism, campaign for change, innovation.
Sponsors include: The New Statesman
Email: charlotte@newstatesman.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/LNCJL/
Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism
Deadline: 01/06/08Details: Annual award, orgainsed by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, celebrate the best in freelance print journalism and local reporters who show great courage and commitment to reporting on controversial issues.
Categories include: Freelance Journalist and Local Journalist
Address: The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism, c/o Alan Davis, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, 48 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8LT
Email: schorkawards@iwpr.net
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/YNTRR/
Rolling Stone's Annual College Journalism Competition
Deadline: 15/06/08Details: This competition, sponsored by Rolling Stone Magazine, is for full or part time students in the USA covering music and entertainment.
Categories include: Entertainment reporting, feature writing and essays and criticism. Entries must have been published in a college-student newspaper or magazine between June 1, 2007 and May 30, 2008.
Prize: A $2,500 prize is awarded in each category
Address: College Journalism Competition, c/o Rolling Stone, 2nd Floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas,
New York NY 10104 USA
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/ZMBOX/
IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards 2008
Deadline: 30/06/08Details: This year's awards will concentrate on cross media advertising, recognising those who have successfully targeted consumers across different print and media channels. Eligible are advertising projects conducted in the period between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008.
Categories include: Cross media campaigns for individual advertising customers / Cross media classfieds (combining print with online and mobile channels) / Cross media communities for special interest groups (e.g. travel, young audience, gardening), that are a platform for new advertiser target groups.
Sponsors include: Adobe, Protec, Dialog
Address: Washingtonplatz 1, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Telephone: 0049 6151 733 927
Email: xma@ifra.com
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/RFPAG/
duPont Awards
Deadline: 01/07/08Details: This award seeks to recognise excellence in TV and radio journalism, and looks for dedication to important news stories.
Categories include: Network Television and Nationally Distributed Cable Programs, Local Television News, Independent Television, Local Radio and Nationally Distributed Radio.
Sponsors include: The Journalism School, Columbia University
Address: Columbia University Journalism School, 2950 Broadway MC3805, New York NY 10027
Telephone: (001) 212/854-5047
Email: dupontawards@jrn.columbia.edu
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/XPPXR/
Guardian Student Media Awards 2008
Deadline: 04/07/08Details: These Guardian sponsored awards recognise outstanding contributions to student journalism in a wide range of categories. Amongst the category winners one overall winner will be chosen for the top prize.
Categories include: Include best newspaper, magazine, reporter and broadcast journalist.
Prize: First prize: £1,650 and six week's work experience at the Guardian. Other prizes of £650/£400 are available, as well as week long placements with the Guardian and blogging work with NME.
Sponsors include: 119 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3ER
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/TNPJY/
Sanlam SA Fashion Journalism Awards.
Deadline: 14/07/08Details: Back for its second annual awards, Sanlam will once again look to challenge and recognise South African fashion journalists.
Categories include: Fashion writing and fashion editing
Prize: The Prize will be R25,000. The money will be applied to a trip for each winner to attend an international fashion week or trade fair for the winter in 2009/2010 season. The prize money must be utilised to cover the flight, accommodation and daily expenses of this trip.
Contact name: Dion Chang
Telephone: (011) 442 2641
Email: dion@fluxtrends.co.za
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/YRCIG/
International Journalism Competition 2008
Deadline: 31/07/08Details: To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2008, this year's International Journalism Award is focusing on press articles that take an in-depth look at article 1 of the declaration.
Prize: 1st Prize: € 2,000, 2nd Prize: € 1,000, 3rd Prize: € 500
Contact name: Veronika Sellner
Address: International Journalism Competition, Markgrafenstrasse 12-14, 10969 Berlin, Germany
Telephone: +49 (0)30 259297-49
Email: sellner@stiftung-evz.de
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/AFOPR/
The 2008 World Young Reader Prizes
Deadline: 31/07/08Details: The World Young Reader Prizes, part of the World Association of Newspaper's annual awards, are awarded annually to innovative newspapers that have devised, in the judges' opinion, the best project or activity in the past 24 months in one or more of the main areas of young reader development.
Categories include: Editorial, newspapers in education and public service.
Sponsors include: Norske Skog of Norway
Address: World Association of Newspapers, 7 Rue Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 75005 Paris, France
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/UOBJG/
AAAS Science Journalism Awards
Deadline: 01/08/08Details: Awards will be presented for U.S. submissions in the following categories: Large Newspaper, Small Newspaper, Magazine, Television, Radio, Online. The international category for Children's Science News is open to journalists worldwide across all news media.
Prize: The award for each category is $3,000. Travel to the awards ceremony, which will be at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago in February 2009.
Sponsors include: Johnson & Johnson
Telephone: (001) 202 326 6434
Email: sja@aaas.org
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/DYJBF/
Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism 2008
Deadline: 01/09/08Details: Annual journalism award, organised by Private Eye in association with the Guardian, in memory of Paul Foot investigative journalist who died in July 2004. The award will honour investigative journalism publishing in print or online between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008. No broadcast material is eligible to enter.
Prize: First prize - £5,000, Runners up - £1,000
Sponsors include: The Guardian, Private Eye
Contact name: Digby Halsby
Telephone: 020 7590 8909
Email: Digby.Halsby@midaspr.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/TAIKD/
The Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism 2008
Deadline: 01/09/08Details: This annual award, now in its fourth year, honours campaigning journalism in the UK, in memory of revered investigative journalist Paul Foot. Entries can be the work of individuals, teams of journalists or entire publications. Single pieces or campaigns published between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008 can be submitted.
Prize: £5,000 overall prize. Five runners-up get £1,000.
Sponsors include: Private Eye and The Guardian.
Address: 6 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BN
Email: Digby.Halsby@midaspr.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/EYURE/
Eastern European Journalism Award 2008
Deadline: 19/09/08Details: This is award is for those whose work fouces on the social situation and living conditions of the people of central and eastern Europe.
Prize: First prize is € 2.000. There are also two advancement awards of € 1.000 each.
Sponsors include: Renovabis
Contact name: Burkhard Haneke
Address: Renovabis, Kardinal-Döpfner-Haus, Stichwort: Journalistenpreis 2008, Domberg 27, 85354 Freising Germany
Email: presse@renovabis.de
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/KNLPA/
The Boehringer Ingelheim COPD Communication Award Eloquium 2008
Deadline: 21/09/08Details: Now in its sixth year, this annual award recognises journalism and media that has extended public awareness and understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Publishing or broadcast period for all submissions is 22nd September 2007 to 21st September 2008.
Categories include: Consumer print/online media, medical print/online media or broadcast media (television and radio).
Prize: To be confirmed.
Address: The Eloquium Award Secretariat, ShireHealthPR,
121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR
Telephone: 020 7108 6519
Email: eloquium@shirehealth.com
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/JTDLS/
Plain English Campaign Media Awards
Deadline: 30/09/08Details: These annual awards are given to the best newspapers, radio programmes and TV shows. Judges choose the winner in each category and they consider, among other things, how well plain English is used. Participants can be nominated by everybody on a national or regional level.
Categories include: Best national newspaper, best regional newspaper, best television programme
Address: Media Awards, Plain English Campaign, PO Box 3, New Mills, High Peak SK22 4QP
Telephone: 01663 744409
Fax: 01663747038
Email: info@plainenglish.co.uk
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/VTZRT/
Advertsing & Digital Media Awards 2008
Deadline: 02/10/08Details: These prestigious awards are designed to showcase the best in advertising and digital media initiatives from the regional press industry in the UK and provide well-deserved recognition.
Sponsors include: National Lottery and UK Datapoint
Address: The Newspaper Society, 18-20 St Andrews House, St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AY
Web: http://www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/YHELI/
