Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa
Study Subject: Journalism
Award Level: Postgraduate
Award Provider: USA Government (via UNEP)
Award tin live taken at: USA
Scholarship Description
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – the vocalism of the surroundings inside the United Nations – launched a novel competition, the Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa (YEJA), amongst funding back upward from the Government of the the States of America, to encourage inspiring reporting on the surroundings past times immature journalists inwards Africa.
Following the successful launch of the contest lastly year, the United Nations Environment Programme is pleased to denote the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award.
The Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa seeks to recognise the real best inwards original, accurate together with inspiring reporting on the surroundings past times immature journalists inwards Africa. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 jury of journalists together with environmental experts volition select the winning entry.
Eligibility
Competition rules:
Study Subject: Journalism
Award Level: Postgraduate
Award Provider: USA Government (via UNEP)
Award tin live taken at: USA
Scholarship Description
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – the vocalism of the surroundings inside the United Nations – launched a novel competition, the Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa (YEJA), amongst funding back upward from the Government of the the States of America, to encourage inspiring reporting on the surroundings past times immature journalists inwards Africa.
Following the successful launch of the contest lastly year, the United Nations Environment Programme is pleased to denote the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award.
The Young Environmental Journalist Award Africa seeks to recognise the real best inwards original, accurate together with inspiring reporting on the surroundings past times immature journalists inwards Africa. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 jury of journalists together with environmental experts volition select the winning entry.
Eligibility
Competition rules:
- Entries are express to African journalists, betwixt 21 together with 35 years old, who are based inwards Africa together with working for local, regional or international media organizations. Freelance journalists are also welcome to apply
- Print, online, radio together with boob tube journalists from whatsoever African province may apply
- Reports submitted to the contest must get got been published or broadcast during the 2011 calendar twelvemonth (1 Jan – 31 Dec 2011)
- Entrants volition submit 1 even out only. This tin live a tidings or features even out from a newspaper, mag or tidings website, a boob tube written report or radio written report on an environmental theme
- Written articles should non overstep 3000 words
- Radio or boob tube reports should live no longer than 6 minutes
- Posts from personal blogs volition non live accepted
- Public relations cloth or articles of a promotional nature volition non live accepted
- The YEJA administrators together with jury are the lastly government for determining whether an entry is eligible
- All entries must live accompanied past times a completed application form
- Entries (both online together with postal) must live received past times 5pm (Nairobi time) on xvi Dec 2011. Entries received afterwards this appointment volition live disqualified. There are no entry fees
- Articles together with reports should live submitted inwards English linguistic communication or French only
- Electronic files uploaded amongst applications must accommodate to the specifications outlined inwards the application form
- In submitting an entry, the entrant accepts that he or she has read, understood together with accepted the contest rules
- Entrants should continue copies of all cloth submitted
- UNEP reserves the correct to reproduce entries for role inwards promotional materials together with campaigns
- UNEP does non accuse entry fees – or whatsoever other fees – inwards relation to the award
Among other criteria, judges for the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award volition assess entries on the forcefulness of their environmental component, newsworthiness, originality, scientific accuracy, together with relevance to local or regional communities inwards Africa.
Eligible groups
Citizens of African countries
Fields of work
Open to print, broadcast together with online journalism amongst relevance to local together with / or regional communities inwards Africa
Scholarship benefits
The winner volition live presented amongst his/her prize during the twelfth Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF) to live held inwards Feb 2012.
The winner volition have an all-expenses-paid trip to the USA, where he or she volition follow a unique, “green” itinerary. The winner volition locomote across the country, interacting amongst environmental projects, leading environmental journalists, scientists together with world figures.
Method of Application
Applications for the 2011 UNEP Young Environmental Journalist Award tin live made online here until the deadline equally announced.
It is of import to read the Press Release: Entries Open for 2011 UNEP YEJA, together with also to watch the official website (link to it is below) for all other damage together with conditions.
DEADLINE:
Application deadline is until 5pm (Nairobi time) on xvi Dec 2011
PLEASE NOTE:
Written articles must non overstep 3000 words together with radio or boob tube reports should live no longer than 6 minutes. The written report must get got been published or broadcast betwixt 1 Jan together with 31 Dec 2011.
Application Deadline: xvi Dec 2011
Open to International journalists: Yes(ONLY Africans)
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