Organizers of the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize the European Commission from the office of International Cooperation and Development has invited applications from journalists in over 160 partner countries with which the European Union engages on development and cooperation to submit entries for this year’s prize between 18 February and 14 April 2019.
The theme for this year’s prize is Journalism for Development. Entries should relate to development cooperation issues such as, but not limited to youth, gender equality, health, climate change etc.
The prizes are in three categories:
The Grand Prize: open to journalists whose media headquarter is located in one of the more than 160 partner countries with which the European Union engages on development and cooperation.
Europe Prize: open to journalists whose media headquarter is located in one of the countries of the European Union.
Best Emerging Journalist Prize: open to a journalist under 30 whose media is headquartered in any country where DG DEVCO and DG NEAR provide development assistance as well as in EU Member States.
The winner of the prize in each category will receive €10,000. The winner of the Best Emerging Journalist Prize category will be offered work experience with a media partner.
The award ceremony will take place at the 2019 European Development Days in Brussels on June 18 – 19, 2019. Interested journalists should visit https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/lnp_en for full details on instructions and application.