The 2012 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism is open for entries.
GUIDELINES FOR AWARDS:
The Award can be made to a journalist or team of up to three journalists. It can be for a single story or a series of up to six stories published or broadcast in 2012 (please do not include pieces from 2011 or 2013, though where relevant they can be referred to in your motivation). The entries must deal with issues and events affecting South Africa. Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges who have discretion to set and use criteria they consider to be appropriate and reasonable.
ENTRIES:
- An Editor may enter up to two stories or series of stories from material they have published or broadcast.
- Any individual journalist, member of the public or organisation that wishes to make a single nomination may do so through the Nominations Panel.
- Members of the Nominations Panel will also be asked to watch for outstanding work and invite individuals to enter where appropriate.
- A signed entry form
- Copies of the story/stories as published.
- A biography (200 words) and photo of each journalist.
- A short motivation for the entry (500 words), including the title, name of journalist/s, publication date, outline of the story, any background the judges should be aware of, an indication of the impact of the story and details of any significant challenge to the accuracy or fairness of the entry, such as published letters, corrections, retractions or formal complaints.
- Publications not in English must be accompanied by an English translation or transcript.
- Photographs, cartoons, graphics can be included.
- A hard copy and an electronic copy must be supplied as follows:
- A4 or A3, but no larger,Copies can be bound or in a loose-leaf folder, but not glued onto paper or card mountings, and no fold-out material to be included
- If the original is reduced in size it must be accompanied by a readable word document version.
- A cover sheet with the story title, publication, date of publication and name/s of journalists,
- Six hard copies of the entry should be delivered to: Taco Kuiper Awards, Wits Journalism, 10th floor, University Corner, Jorissen Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, for the attention of Margaret Renn
- An electronic copy including the original published material, cover sheet, motivation letter, biography, photo and publication logo to be emailed at the same time to margaret.renn@wits.ac.za
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: margaret.renn@wits.ac.za
Website: http://www.journalism.co.za/tacokuiper
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