Call for Entries: Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism 2008

Dear Colleagues,

The call for this year's entries for the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism has just been launched. The awards were created to honour fearless freelance news reporting, and those journalists who cannot leave their country when the story becomes secondary to survival.

Two annual prizes of $5,000 each are awarded, one to a freelance journalist covering foreign news, and the second to a local journalist in the developing world. The deadline for receipt of entries is June 1 2008.

Full details of the awards and how to enter are enclosed in the attached MS Word document and may also be found by clicking to the Kurt Schork Award pages on the IWPR website -(www.iwpr.net)

IWPR, the international non for profit media development organisation is delighted to be administering the awards and helping to celebrate the memory of the much-loved American freelance reporter who was killed in a military ambush while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone in May 2000.

Please do pass this email on to any of your colleagues who may be eligible and interested in applying for the awards.

Yours warmly,

Alan Davis

Director of Special Projects

Institute of War & Peace Reporting
www.iwpr.net