Deadline: 12-Jul-23
Registrations for the 2023 Roche Health Journalism Award are now open, the contest that highlights the best stories and coverage focused on health and science issues in Latin America.
Apply now for your journalistic work and be part of the great community that has been built in the first decade of the Award, an initiative of Roche Latin America with the Technical Secretariat of the Gabo Foundation.
After this first decade with the Roche Award, the set of works that are part of the contest has been enriched and diversified, thanks to the applications of those who are dedicated to exclusive coverage of health and science, and the contribution of those who come to these issues through other journalistic approaches.
The best exponents of Latin American health journalism will be recognized at the end of the eleventh edition in the award ceremony to be held on November 9, 2023 in Panama City (Panama), within the framework of Roche Press Day, a forum that promotes the interdisciplinary exchange between journalists, health professionals, academia, representatives of civil or non-governmental organizations, and decision makers.
Categories
This year, you can apply for the Roche Award if your journalistic work falls into one of these three categories: Written Journalism, Audiovisual Journalism and Daily Coverage.
- In Written Journalism, the best journalistic text published in a print or digital medium in Latin America will be awarded
- In Audiovisual Journalism, the best journalistic work produced and broadcast in Latin America by open or closed television or digital media will be recognized.
- In Daily Coverage, the work that best meets the benchmark for in-depth journalistic coverage, explanation, and follow-up of issues that arise from the daily situation will be chosen.
Different Approaches
When applying to the contest, you must take this list of topics into account, since your journalistic work must be focused on at least one of these to be accepted:
- Challenges facing health care.
- Non-communicable and low prevalence diseases.
- Innovations for health care.
- Political reforms to improve health care.
- Women and health.
- Community actions for health.
Benefits
- The incentive for the best
- Attention to these news! They have renewed the incentive for the winners of the Roche Award. Those who are recognized with the award in each of the categories of the eleventh edition will participate in a training program on health journalism.
- This new award includes attendance at a three-day face-to-face workshop organized by the Gabo Foundation, as an opportunity to strengthen the knowledge of Latin American journalists on health and science issues. The winning person will have immediate access to this benefit but, if the best work was done by a journalistic team, its members must choose a representative to participate.
- This training program will not only provide the space to transmit and share experiences in the context of a workshop, but will also allow immersion in other learning scenarios, through visits to universities, scientific study centers, etc.; the approach to practical and successful experiences in the health and science sector, with visits to hospitals, health centers or specialists, with scientific or health advances, as well as a tour of the host city.
- The winners will also receive a commemorative trophy and a diploma, while the finalists in each category of the eleventh edition will obtain a medal and a diploma during the award ceremony.
- Honorable Mentions
- The work that best develops the solutions journalism approach will be highlighted in the eleventh edition with an honorable mention. This seeks to promote the production of journalistic stories that investigate, narrate, and explain in depth the responses that institutions, communities, and individuals are developing to the challenges, problems, and health gaps in the region.
- In addition, in each category this year, an honorable mention will be awarded to the work with the best development of the theme Challenges facing health care.
- Journalists who receive these honorable mentions will be awarded a diploma in recognition of their work in these specific focuses.
Criteria
- Journalistic works must have been originally broadcast in Spanish or Portuguese, and must have been broadcast or published for the first time between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022.
- It is possible to apply for more than one work to the eleventh edition, since you can register an individual work and a collective one to the contest, but they recommend that you first review the Roche Award Bases to be clear about the procedure.
For more information, visit Gabo Foundation.