Great Plains Journalism Awards

Deadline: 15/02/12

Details:
These awards honour outstanding journalism from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa.

Entries must be made online by uploading PDFs and photographs or URLs to stories and webpages.

Entry Fee is $25 per entry, the same story, series or photo may be submitted in more than one category. Each entry will require a separate entry fee.

Finalists will be announced in each category, and winners will be honored at a spring banquet.

Categories include:
Newspaper, Magazine and Photography with sub-categories in each.

Sponsors include:
Tulsa Press Club

Contact name: Joy Jenkins/p>

Telephone: +1 (918) 398-3330

Email: greatplainsawards@gmail.com
Web: click here

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2012

Deadline: 15/02/12

Details:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) invites Member States, as well as regional and international organizations and professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2012.

Named in honour of Guillermo Cano Isaza, an assassinated Colombian journalist, the Prize is intended to honour a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, particularly when this has been achieved in the face of danger.

Nominations are to be submitted online and the prize will be awarded on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, on 3 May 2012.

Prize:
Awarded annually, the Prize is marked by a ceremony and the winner is presented with the sum of US$25,000.

Address: UNESCO, Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, 1 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris cedex 15, France

Email: s.coudray(at)unesco.org
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World Bloggers and Social Media Awards 2012

Deadline: 16/02/12

Details:
As part of Malaysia Social Media Week The Bloggers and Social Media Awards are designed for individuals, companies and organizations to highlight their achievements in the new media arena. The awards will highlight the work of some of the best from the social media fraternity of global and local social media practitioners.

Any active social media user, practitioner or blogger can participate but must have a full time site with a specified address and not dormant for the past month prior to submission of nomination form and should be active during the final results.

Submission of nominations is free. Visit the event homepage to vote for blogs in each category.

Venue: Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur

Categories include:
Up to 30 categories will be rewarded including best business blog, social media champion of the year and best upcoming blogger of the year.

Telephone: (603) 2035 5777

Web: click here

Institute of Internal Communication Awards 2012

Deadline: 17/02/12

Details:
The Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC) exists to support internal communication practitioners in their careers, promote high professional standards within the sector and raise general awareness of the value of internal communication.

Entries are now being taken for the updated IoIC awards. The awards celebrate the work being done every day by IC professionals in the UK covering areas from digital media, print media and writing to individual work as communication that builds a shared understanding or fosters a sense of community among a clearly defined group.

The aim is to discover the best work that’s going on now in internal communication

Entries are open to all in-house, agency and freelance communicators (non-Institute members included). To enter complete the online entry form, attach work samples and post to competition address below.

Every entry will receive an individual constructive critique by an experienced judge.

Venue: Hilton Park Lane, London

Categories include:
39 awards spread across eight sections.

Address: Institute of Internal Communication Suite GA2, Oak House, Woodlands Business Park, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes MK14 6EY

Telephone: 01908 313755

Email: tim@ioic.org.uk
Web: click here

The Professional Pulishers Association Awards 2012

Deadline: 17/02/12

Details:
The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) is now accepting entries for its annual awards ceremony celebrating talent from across the magazine industry.

Categories cover a wide range of disciplines across consumer, business and customer publishing and provide a unique opportunity for magazine brands and individuals to gain national recognition for editorial achievement over the past 12 months.

Create, save and submit entries for one or more award categories by following a link on the awards website. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in London on 20 June.

The costs to enter the PPA Awards 2012 are as follows:

PPA Members - £85 + VAT per entry
AOP/APA Members - £127.50 +VAT per entry
Non-members - £170 + VAT per entry

Categories include:
Categories include consumer magazine of the year, business magazine of the year and columnist of the year (consumer media and business media).

Sponsors include:
Sponsors include Adestra, The Biofore Company and Pensord

Contact name: Emma Turner/p>

Telephone: 020 7404 4166

Email: emma.turner@ppa.co.uk
Web: click here

CNN African Journalist Awards 2012

Deadline: 22/02/12

Details:
These awards, given in number of categories, aim to 'encourage, promote and recognise excellence in African journalism'.

Entries are open only to citizens of African nations who are "working on the continent for African owned, or headquartered, media organisations. Your work must have appeared in printed publications or electronic media that is primarily targeted at and received by an African audience."

Entries must have been broadcast or published, in English, French or Portuguese only, between January and December 2011 with proof supplied.

Categories include:
Digital Journalism Award, Mohamed Amin Photographic Award and The Coca-Cola Company Economics and Business Award

Prize:
"The journalists selected by [the] panel of judges will enjoy an all expenses paid finalists' programme of networking activities and workshops, culminating in the Gala Awards Ceremony. Each finalist will receive a cash prize, with each category winner also receiving a laptop computer and printer.

"The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Award winner will be selected from the category winners and will receive an additional cash prize and will have the opportunity to participate in the CNN Journalism Fellowship at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta."

Sponsors include:
BlackBerry, The Coca-Cola Company and UNICEF

Email: cnnafrica.competition@turner.com
Web: click here

Publishing Leaders 25 under 35

Deadline: 24/02/12

Details:
Editor and Publisher would like to recognise the next generation of newspaper publishing leaders.

Nominations are open to men and women under the age of 35 years and younger. Candidates may be publishers, editors, advertising executives, circulation managers or other newspaper leaders. Nominees must own or work for a print newspaper or an online-only former newspaper.

Nominate an emerging newspaper talent (or yourself) online for the 'Publishing Leaders - 25 under 35' feature article that will appear in Editor and Publisher's April issue.

Address: Editor & Publisher, 17782 Cowan, Suite C, Irvine CA 92614

Telephone: (949) 660-6150

Web: click here

The Martin Wills Memorial Trust 20th Anniversary Wills Writing Awards

Deadline: 29/02/12

Details:
The annual Awards started in 1993 in memory of journalist and amateur jockey Martin Wills. Now in their 20th year the awards are for creative writing (fact or fiction) around a horseracing theme. Awards are open to young people resident in the UK or the Republic of Ireland. Each category offers substantial prizes, the main one being £1,250 and previous winners have gone on to write for the national and racing press, the news agencies and the broadcast media.

Entrants are invited to submit a single article by 29 February 2012 via the entry requirements section of the Awards website. The maximum word counts are 1,200 (under 26s/19s) or 800 (under 15s).

The article must not be published prior to the announcement of the winners of the Awards and schools are asked not to submit more than three entries per class.

The Awards will be announced and presented at Newmarket’s prestigious Craven Meeting on Wednesday 18 April 2012, when all six prize winners will be given an expenses paid day’s racing, including a reception in a private luncheon room made available by the Racecourse.

Categories include:
There are three categories: under 26, under 19 and under 15.

Each category offers substantial prizes, the main one being £1,250.

Prize:
The six prizes, for the winner and runner-up in each category are:
*£1,250/£750 (under 26s)
*£500/£250 (under 19s)
*£250/£125 (under 15s).

In addition, the winners will be published in the Racing Post and The Irish Field. The under 26 winner will also have the opportunity of work experience at the Racing Post.

Contact name: Charles Ponsonby/p>

Telephone: 01993 811 717

Email: cponsonby@btinternet.com
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Amnesty International Media Awards 2012

Deadline: 01/03/12

Details:
The Amnesty International Media Awards were established in 1992 to recognise and celebrate the best in human rights journalism.

Over the past two decades the awards have grown in prestige, recognising excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledging journalism's significant contribution to the public awareness of human rights issues.

Entries up to 16 January 2012 are £99 per entry, £130 after. The student award is free to enter until the closing date. If you would like to seek funding for your entry please go to the Sponsorship Fund section on the online application form and state clearly why you need this support.

Entering the Media Awards is a two-step process:

Register entry online by following a link from each of the awards categories, then post submission to the competition address below.

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony 29 May 2012.

Categories include:
The 12 categories recognise newspaper, magazine, radio, TV, digital and student journalism.

Address: Amnesty International Media Awards, Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London E C2A 3EA

Telephone: 020 7033 1544

Email: media.awards@amnesty.org.uk
Web: click here

British Media Awards

Deadline: 01/03/12

Details:
Media news site TheMediaBriefing has launched a new awards programme, the British Media Awards, aimed at recognising media companies that have shown an innovative approach to new business models in the industry. Winners may be companies, products or an individual idea from across the media industry, from broadcast to print or digital.

The awards will be announced and presented at a ceremony in the Emirates Stadium on Thursday 26 April.

All entries must be submitted online at the following cost:

1 - 2 entries = £250 each
3 - 4 entries = £175 each
5 or more entries = £150 each

Venue: The Eminrates Stadium, London

Categories include:
15 categories in total including overall media innovation of the year, digital media innovator of the year and best use of mobile.

Email: andy.oakes@briefingmedia.com
Web: click here

The International Women's Media Foundation 2012 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award

Deadline: 02/03/12

Details:
The International Women’s Media Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2012 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. Each year, the Courage in Journalism Awards honor three women journalists who have demonstrated strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances, such as government oppression, threats to personal safety and other intimidating obstacles.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman journalist who has a pioneering spirit and whose determination has paved the way for future generations of women in the media.

Candidates for the Courage in Journalism Awards can be full-time, part-time or freelance women reporters, writers, editors, photographers or producers working in any country. Digital news media candidates are accepted.

Lifetime Achievement Award candidates can be either working or retired journalists. All nominations must be in English, and all nomination forms for both the Courage in Journalism Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award must be completed by an associate of the nominee. Self-nominations are not accepted.

For further information and details on how to nominate a journalist visit the competition website.

Winners will be announced in May.

Venue: Washington

Email: courage@iwmf.org
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Stories on Umbria Journalism Award 2012

Deadline: 15/03/12

Details:
This award aims to recognise "articles and TV programmes covering issues of artistic cultural-environmental highlights and high-quality economic system of the region, improving Umbria visibility both in Italy and worldwide and the best products of umbrian entrepreneurial system" [sic] .

Entry is free of charge, however entries must have been aired or published between 1 January 2011 and 29 February 2012.

Categories include:
traditional press articles, television and web articles

Prize:
€2.5K will be awarded to the winner in each category

Sponsors include:
Perugia Chamber of Commerce and Terni Chamber of Commerce

Address: Chamber of Commerce of Perugia, Press and Communication Office, Via
Cacciatori delle Alpi, 42 - 06121 Perugia, Italy

Email: urp@pg.camcom.it
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Hank McGonagle Journalism Award

Deadline: 27/07/12

Details:
This award is given annually by the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) to to recognise "excellent, accurate and discerning reporting on topical issues related to the intra-European air transport industry." Eligible entries must have been published between may come from "trade or non-trade media, in print or web-based formats."

Prize:
"The winner gains international media coverage benefiting from recognition of their work [...] they will also see their name published in ERA's Regional International publication and the winning article will appear on the ERA website."

Sponsors include:
GE Aviation

Web: click here

International Journalism Award 2012 of the European Skin Cancer Foundation

Deadline: 31/07/12

Details:
The European Skin Cancer Foundation (ESCF) present this award to recognise journalism that increases "the awareness and
the knowledge of skin cancer in the general population" and to honour journalists who show an "outstanding commitment" to this goal. Eligible applicants may be staff writers, editorial teams or freelance journalists. Entries must be in German or English and have been published between 1 August 2011 and 31 July 2012

Categories include:
Print (covering local and regional articles, regional and national articles, articles from weekly/monthly publications and magazines (other than customer magazines and pure subscription tracks) and Television (covering TV reports and broadcasts from 90 seconds to 45 minutes and reports, documentaries and magazine reviews)

Prize:
€5K for each category

Address: ESCF - European Skin Cancer Foundation , c/o Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus , Robert-Koch-Platz 7, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Email: journalistenpreis@escf-network.eu