The closing date for entries for the Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism awards is Friday, February 25. The award ceremony will be at the Rand Club on Friday 15 April. The awards are open to print and broadcast media, for a story or series of stories published during 2010.
Guidelines for the awards appear below. For more information on the Taco Kuiper grants, publications and previous winners, visit: http://journalism.co.za/tacokuiper
Guidelines for awards
The Award can be made to any journalist or team of journalists. A team can be up to three people.
It can be made for a single story or a series of stories (up to six) published or broadcast within the last calendar year, which deal with issues and events affecting South Africa.
A call for nominations for each calendar year will be made in the first two months of the following year. Winners will be chosen by a distinguished panel of adjudicators who have entire discretion to set and use criteria they consider to be appropriate and reasonable in deciding the winner/s.
Nominations may be made in two ways:
1. The Editor may make up to two nominations from material they have published or broadcast.
2. Any individual or organisation who wishes to make a nomination may do so through the Nominations Panel. Members of the panel will also be asked to watch for outstanding work and invite individuals to enter where appropriate. Each panel member may make two nominations.
The Panel of Judges will select the winner/s from these nominations.
Only one nomination for each candidate or each piece or body of work will be considered.
How to submit an entry:
1. Entries must be accompanied by the entry form and a signed acceptance by the nominee as well copies (see below) of the story/stories which make up the entry.
2. This material must be submitted exactly as published or broadcast.
3. A biography of no more than 200 words and a picture of each individual journalist involved in the story should be included. Every entry should be accompanied by a summary of the story and motivation for the nomination of no more than 500 words, including any background that the judges should be aware of and an indication of the impact of the story.
4. Publications or broadcasts not in English must be accompanied by an English translation or transcript.
5. Any significant challenge to the honesty, accuracy or fairness of an entry, such as published letters, corrections, retractions, or formal complaints, as well as responses, should be included in the submission.
6. Photographs, cartoons, graphics or other relevant elements may accompany the entry.
7. Print submissions should be bound into one unit of no more than A3 size with the following information on the front cover: name of nominee, name of nominator, name of publication, one-line description of the work. The type-size of material should be no smaller than the original published material. If a large spread is required to show the presentation and scope of publication, then this should be reduced in size to fit into the A3 binder. No fold-out material should be included. Five complete hard copies of each entry must be submitted. An electronic copy needs to be sent to ijw@journalism.co.za
8. Broadcast submissions should be on CD or DVD, clearly marked with the programme name and transmission date. The DVD/CD box cover should include: name of nominee, name of nominator, name of publication, one-line description of the work. Five copies are required. Please label the CD/DVD clearly.
9. Entries should be sent to Taco Kuiper Award, Department of Journalism, Room 506 Richard Ward Building, University of Witwatersrand, Private Bag X3 PO Wits 2050.
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