Bastiat Prize opens awards to online journalists for the first time
New category offers $3,000 prize to journalists working in new media
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International journalism award, the Bastiat Prize, will recognise online journalism for the first time in its eight-year history with a new category.
The prize, organised by the International Policy Network (IPN), is open to writers whose work promotes and defends 'the principles and institutions of the free society', a release from IPN said.
Previous winners include the Financial Times' Tim Harford , freelancer Jamie Whyte and US newspaper journalist Barton Hinkle .
The winner of the Bastiat Prize for Journalism will receive $10,000, with $4,000 for second place and $1,000 for third.
The recipient of the new online journalism award, for which blogs and self-published material are eligible, will be awarded $3,000.
The deadline for submissions, which must be in English, is June 30. The winners will be announced in October.
Participants can only enter one category. Entry forms and full details of the awards' criteria can be downloaded from IPN's website .
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
