Deadline: 26th October, 2012
European Press Prize 2012 is the awards given for excellence in Journalism. This award is given for high-quality journalism, in print or online and will help enhance journalism’s role as a significant defender of democracy’s freedom and as an initiator of a serious European discourse.
In 2011, representatives of seven European media foundations came together in De Balie Debating Centre in Amsterdam to exchange ideas. The representatives agreed to encourage premium-quality journalism on a world-wide basis and thus the idea of European Press Prize 2012 came into existence. Each award consists of € 10,000.
In the first year of the Prize, awards will be given in four separate categories:
- The Editing Award – For the editor who the judges believe has contributed most to public debate and public understanding;
- The Commentator Award – For the feature writer, columnist or commentator who has done most to illuminate vital issues for his readers;
- The News Reporting Award – For the reporter or specialist expert whose work has made a decisive impact;
- The Innovation Award – For the outstanding innovation of the year-in print or via digital: anything that makes a significant contribution to journalism’s future.
This year’s awards only entries published between October 1, 2011 and October 26, 2012 will be accepted for evaluation. The winners will be judged by a distinguished panel from different areas of Europe and under the chairmanship of Sir Harold Evans, editor-at-large of Thomson Reuters and former editor of London’s Sunday Times.
European Press Prize 2012 will be announced in January and have their awards presented at a congress of Europe’s media foundations in the De Balie Debating Centre, Amsterdam, on 26 February, 2013. Sir Harold Evans will be joined on the judging panel by Jørgen Ejbøl, chairman of JP/Politiken Newspapers and former editor of Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen, Sylvie Kauffmann, editorial director of Le Monde in Paris and Yevgenia Albats, editor of New Times in Moscow and Paolo Flores d’Arcais, one of the most influential philosophers and writers in Italy.
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