Applications are invited for this year’s Kurt Schork Awards celebrating the best in international and local journalism with two US$5,000 prizes. One is for freelance print journalists covering international news and the other for local reporters in developing or transitional countries who show courage and commitment in covering controversial issues.

The stories can focus on conflict, human-rights concerns, cross-border issues or other controversial issues in a particular country or region.

Underwritten by the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund and Thomson Reuters, the prizes honour Kurt Schork, an American freelance journalist who was killed in an ambush while on assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone in May, 2000.

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting an international non-profit media development network, is working with the fund, and full details of the awards and how to enter can be found on the IWPR website (http://iwpr.net/kurtschork09).
 
All entries must demonstrate professionalism, meet international journalistic standards and provide evidence that courage and determination played a role in generating the articles. Winners will be chosen by an international panel of judges.

    APPLY ONLINE NOW -  Deadline for applications is June 22, 2009.

To apply by email or post please download and print out the 2009 Kurt Schork Awards PDF application form from the IWPR website.

You can email your entries to schorkawards@iwpr.net or send by post to:

    Kurt Schork Awards
    Institute for War & Peace Reporting
    48 Gray's Inn Road
    London WC1X 8LT
    United Kingdom

For more information, including details of previous winners please go to http://iwpr.net/kurtschork

    ELIGIBILITY

    Local Reporter: Print journalists employed by a local news outlet and residing in a developing country or nation in transition (non OECD or EU countries), whose work has been published in a local publication are eligible. Although individual journalists are the primary focus, submissions from a team of journalists will also be considered.

    Freelance Journalist: All freelance print journalists and those contracted by news organizations are eligible. A freelance journalist is an individual who is not employed by a news organization. They are self-employed, providing services, either on the basis of time or on the production of editorial materials as defined by individual contractual arrangements, and earn the majority of their income from journalism.

    Eligible media: Entries are welcomed from all types of print-based media including newspapers and magazines and established on-line publications. Blogs and personal websites are not eligible.

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