Attention: Filipino journalists
A number of awards are currently available for Filipino journalists. Among them:
Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA)
PRINT journalists may join this year’s Developing Asia Journalism Awards. Deadline is on July 15, 2009, 6.00 p.m. (Tokyo time).
Organized by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the awards will honor the best reports on the poverty impact of the global financial crisis; government responses to the global financial crisis; infrastructure development; climate change adaptation. It will also award the Best Development Journalist of the Year and the Best Young Development Journalist of the Year (under 30 years of age).
Journalists can enter only one article per category. Past DAJA winners and runners-up are eligible to compete again. Articles must be published between 1 January 2008 and 15 July 2009 in a regional newspaper, magazine, news wire service or website.
The 20 best articles will be invited to Tokyo, Japan for a four-day training program from Oct. 20-23, 2009, which will also be a venue for the journalists to discuss and debate the above four issues with leading experts. The awards will be announced at the end of the training program.
Last year, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s Alexander “Alecks” Pabico won the top prize in the Governance category while PCIJ fellow Roel Landingin was runner-up in the Infrastructure category.
For more details on the contest, click here.
Online Journalism Awards (OJA)
ONLINE journalists may enter this year’s Online Journalism Awards (OJA) competition. Deadline is on June 30, 2009.
Organized by the Online News Association and the University of Miami’s School of Communication, the contest seeks to recognize “excellence in digital journalism around the world.” The 2009 categories are: The Knight Award for Public Service; General Excellence in Online Journalism; General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English; The Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism; Breaking News; Specialty Site Journalism; Investigative Journalism; Multimedia Feature Presentation; Online Topical Reporting/Blogging; Online Commentary/Blogging; Community Collaboration Award; Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies; Online Video Journalism; and Student Journalism.
Entries must be published between June 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.
For more information on the OJA, click here.
Rory Peck Awards 2009
Now in its 14th year, the Rory Peck Awards honor freelance cameramen/women in television news and current affairs programs. Deadline is on September 4, 2009.
The entries must have been broadcast between Aug. 1, 2008 and July 31, 2009.
The international competition honors freelance camerawork in three categories: The Rory Peck Award for News (coverage of on-the-day news, where the focus is on the immediacy of the story); The Rory Peck Award for Features (news features/in-depth pieces which look beyond the immediacy of a new story), The Sony Professional Impact Award (news footage which raises humanitarian issues and has had an impact internationally or contributed to a change in perception or policy).
A special award named The Martin Adler Prize may also be given at the discretion of the trustees by the Rory Peck Trust. The award recognizes “a freelancer who has told, or played a vital part in telling a significant news story and the recipient could be a cameraperson or the person who they have depend upon in the field—their fixer, driver or local freelance reporter.”
The contest is organized by The Rory Peck Trust, which offers discretionary grants to the families of freelance newsgatherers killed while on assignment. The organization was established in 1995 by close friends and the widow of Rory Peck, a freelance cameraman who was killed in October 1993 while covering the October coup outside Moscow’s television centre, Ostankino.
The awards ceremony will be held on Nov. 19, 2009 at The British Film Institute Southbank, Belvedere Road, London SE1, United Kingdom. The contest is sponsored by Sony Professional.
For more information, click here to visit The Rory Peck Trust website or email awards@rorypecktrust.org.
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