Often at personal risk, many journalists around the world work hard to report conflict, corruption and injustice. Their goal is to ensure that the wider world learns about – and better understands – the challenges faced by communities under pressure and may perhaps be spurred into providing help to the desperate.
This work is not usually well rewarded. Freelancers live from job to job, with financial insecurity, and locally employed reporters are often on low pay and subjected to harassment or worse when their stories uncover political or business wrongdoing. Many international journalists rely on ‘News Fixers’ whose guidance, local knowledge and contacts can often have a decisive impact on a story.
WORTH
The winners receive their awards, including a US $5,000 cash prize each, at a ceremony held in London in late October or November.
ELIGIBILITY
The 20th annual call for awards is therefore now split into three categories:
- A Local Reporter award that recognizes the often over-looked work of journalists in developing nations or countries in transition who write about events in their homeland.
- A Freelance award for those journalists who travel to the world’s conflict zones, usually at great personal risk, to witness and report the impact and consequences of events.
- A News Fixer award rewarding local journalists and/or experts, hired by a visiting foreign reporter or news organization, whose guidance and local knowledge materially benefited the content, impact and reach of the stories submitted.
DEADLINE: May 31 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
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