CALL FOR ENTRIES IN INTER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION (IAPA) 2008 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
The best of news coverage in the Americas is invited to submit entries in the annual Awards for Excellence in Journalism contest of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).
The IAPA an organization made up of more than 1,300 publications that brings together editors, publishers and other professionals and that for more than 60 years has been devoted to defending and nurturing freedom of the press in the Western Hemisphere.
The Inter American Press Association’s Awards for Excellence in Journalism are unparalleled in volume and relevance among press awards. Newspapers and news agencies in some 33 nations in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean submit published works in English, Spanish or Portuguese in the contest between November 15, 2007 and the deadline of January 15, 2008.
This year entries may again be submitted online, a procedure that met with such success in last year’s contest.
The adjudication panel, made up of leading figures in hemisphere journalism, will review the entries and select 10 finalists in each of the 11 categories during the IAPA’s Midyear Meeting schedule to be held in Venezuela in March 2008. From among the finalists the adjudication panel will choose the winners, who will be presented with diplomas and cash prizes during the organization’s General Assembly in Madrid, Spain, next October.The awards are given in 11 categories: Inter-American Relations, Human Rights, News Coverage, Features, In-Depth Reporting, Photography, Cartoons, Infographics, Opinion, The Newspaper in Education, and Best Online News Coverage. In addition, the IAPA awards its Grand Prize for Press Freedom to a person or organization that has significantly advanced the cause of freedom of the press.
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NOTE: Do not forget to have your text content prepared in Word format and the images of the pages on which the material was published in PDF, JPG or TIFF format.It is an essential requirement that the work being submitted has been published in 2007, but it is not necessary for the publication concerned to be an IAPA member in order to participate. Nevertheless, we do urge you to consider our mission, with a view to your joining the organization – we have a formidable professional network in which new working relationships are formed, often leading to lifetime friendships.
We do urge you to enter this great contest, the pride of the hemisphere press!
