Deadline- May 31, 2013
Applicants are invited to apply for German Development Media Awards for Journalists offered by The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in cooperation with Deutsche Welle broadcasting corporation. The purpose of this program is to honor journalists reporting on human rights and development issues. The competition languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian or Spanish. The German Development Media Awards for human rights journalism offer seven cash prizes valued at 2,000 euros each.
All forms of journalistic expression including, among others, articles and features for print and online media; news and documentary reports for television, radio and online; and multimedia projects in all types of innovative formats will be accepted.
Entries must address the topic Human Rights and Development. By definition, human rights include civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights.
How to submit?
- Applicant can register online. They will need to provide information about them self and their entry as well as upload Curriculum Vitae (CV). At the end of the online registration, applicant will be able to upload their entry directly to the Deutsche Welle server.
- Video files cannot exceed 80 MB and must be in one of the following formats: mpg, mp4, mpeg, mov, avi, wmv, flv.
- Audio files cannot exceed 80 MB and must be in one of the following formats: mp3, mp2, mpg, snd, ogg, wav, muf, wma.
- Photo file should be in high resolution and as large as possible. The minimum requirement is 300 dpi with a size of 1024 x 576 pixels. Organizers will accept .jpg and .png photo formats.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- To be eligible for the award, applicant must be a journalist from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East or Eastern Europe. Applicants must also live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East or Eastern Europe and work for a media organization headquartered in one of these regions.
- If work is published or broadcast by a German media organization, applicants are also eligible to enter the award.
- African photographers can enter the special People’s Choice Award which honors exceptional photography on the topic Human Rights in Africa.
- Applicants may also submit a joint or team entry. However, when registering, team entries must nominate one contact person.
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