Fetisov Journalism Awards (FJA) 2020

Brief description:

The Fetisov Journalism award designed for international journalists and aims to promote human values such as honesty, justice, courage, and nobility around the world. Moreover, the award objective is to help the winners to access greater visibility by publishing their works on the contest website and printed media. Finally, eligible journalists who meet the requirements can ask their organizations, where they work in, to nominate them for the award. Additionally, they can nominate themselves individually too.

Details:

Deadline: 1 August 2020

Shortlist date: 1 November 2020

Result announcement date: 1 December 2020

Award ceremony: 10 February 2021

Amount of awards:

·        The first winner: 100000 CHF

·        The second winner: 20000 CHF

·        The third winner: 10000 CHF

Eligibilities:

·        International and professional journalists who are representative of media, organizations, and working as freelance journalists.

·        Each organization or media can nominate at up to three journalists.

·        One entry from an individual is acceptable.

·        Their publication of the nominations should be published in the printed media such as newspapers, magazines, journals, or media websites, outlets from 1 June 2019 to 31 May 2020.

·        Their publication should consist of about 20000 words.

·        Participants could not submit films, videos, and audio as separate peace of their works.

Note: only English submission allowed. Moreover, their size should not exceed 10MB and must be in PDF format.

Required documents:

·        Online application form

·        Personal information of the representative of a journalism organization, including first and last name, name of organization applicants working in, the country name that the organization registered their contact address like mobile number and email address.

·        Publication author’s personal information.

·        Publication data information such as title, media platform details, written language, the link of publication, a short explanation of nomination reasons.

criteria:

·        The submission will evaluate based on the following categories:

·        Information reliability.

·        Independence of the publications.

·        Impartiality and fairness.

·        Publication effect.

·        Ethical principles promotion

·        Publication’s positive impact on the political, economic, or social situation in a specific place.

Application Instructions:

Nominate your candidates or yourself online see details

For further information, please visit the FJA official website 

Deadline:1^st August 2020