Deadline: 3 November 2016
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) in patnership with Save the Children International (SCI) and Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD) is currently inviting all journalists in East and Southern Africa to submit their story ideas in the Isu Elihle (Great Idea) Awards.
The awards are aimed at media professionals that seek to encourage fresh reporting, innovative angles, insightful investigations and those that seek to give children a voice and elevate the status of the child in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Competition Details
There are two stages of this competition:
- First stage: Submission of story idea
- These ideas will go through an adjudication process, undertaken by a panel of judges made up of children, an international child rights expert, representatives from the participating organisations and an independent news editor.
- Second stage: Producing and publishing the full story
- The top three journalists’ newsrooms will be given financial support to research and develop their concepts into publishable material, which will then be published (print or online) or broadcast, by a news media house of their choosing.
Award Information
- Overall Winner
- Newsroom Financial Support: ZAR 17 000
- Journalist Cash Prize: ZAR 25 000
- Second prize
- Newsroom Financial Support: ZAR 17 000
- Journalist Cash Prize: ZAR 15 000
- Third prize
- Newsroom Financial Support: ZAR 17 000
- Journalist Cash Prize: ZAR 10 000
Eligibility Criteria
All professional journalists based in the East and Southern Africa region are invited to submit story ideas to be awarded cash prizes and with a focus on children’s issues to be considered for the inaugural Isu Elihle Awards. Isu Elihle is a phrase derived from isiZulu which means “Great idea”.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must fill the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit Isu Elihle Awards.