Journalists in the developing world who are less than 30 years of age on or before November 25, 2014 has been called to enter for 2014 UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) Awards which will form part of the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist FPA Award winner.
Interested applicants must be working in countries defined as “developing”, specifically with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of less than $20,000 to enter their work and have a portfolio of three published or broadcast pieces of work produced in the 12 months preceding the deadline for submissions.
Completed entries will go forward to be shortlisted by staff at the Thomson Foundation, before the FPA judges decide on the three finalists.
Each entrant should submit a portfolio of three published or broadcast pieces of work produced in the 12 months preceding 29 August, 2014 (the 12 months prior to the deadline for submissions).
The entries can be in any format: print, audio, video, multimedia, or a combination of all four.
Applicants can email their articles as attachments or provide hyperlinks to their stories online. If necessary, they can use a file-transfer application such as We Transfer for large audio or video files. A written statement of no more than 200 words per story giving a summary of the content and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast should also be submitted.
Entries can be in any language but should be accompanied by a verbatim English-language translation and should be accompanied by a letter from the applicant’s current editor, on headed company notepaper verifying that it is the published work of the entrant. Where an entrant is freelance, or self-employed, verification can be provided by an editor from one of the publications/websites/broadcasters where the work appeared, or by a journalism academic familiar with the work of the entrant.
Checks will be made for plagiarism and any entrant found to have submitted work which is not their own will be automatically disqualified.
The deadline for entries is 23.59 GMT Friday, August 29 2014.
Interested applicants should check: http://www.thomsonfoundation.org/fpa-young-journalist-award#sthash.mio2Z0hw.dpuf for more details.
