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 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 (IWPR), 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://www.iwpr.net)
The awards are for stories published between March 1, 2006 and April 30, 2007. Deadline for receipt of emailed or posted entries in London is June 15 2007. Please pass this call for entries to colleagues and news organisations that you think appropriate.
Last year's winners, Massoud Ansari from Pakistan and the late Steven Vincent from the US, were honoured in London in November at an event hosted by CNN's Christiane Amanpour, a Kurt Schork Memorial trustee. Photos and a video of the event can be seen online at IWPR.
For more information, contact:
Alan Davis
Director of Strategy & Assessment, IWPR
alan@iwpr.net
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