Deadline: 31-Dec-20
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has announced the call for entries for the 2021 COMESA Media Awards to recognize and reward journalists who have contributed to regional integration by publishing and producing broadcast stories on the subject.
The objective of the Awards is to promote reporting of COMESA regional integration projects hence raising public awareness, understanding and participation and ownership.
The Award scheme is conducted every year to recognize and reward journalists who have contributed to regional integration by publishing and producing broadcast stories on the subject.
Categories
Entries shall consist of the following:
- Print Journalism: Features/articles should consist of a minimum 700 words and maximum 1,500 words published in mainstream newspapers, magazines/ journals and newsletters.
- Radio Journalism: Documentary or discussion programmes of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB.
- Television Journalism: Documentary or discussion programme of minimum 5 (five) minutes and maximum 10 (ten) minutes duration and not exceeding 15MB.
- Online/New Media: Features/articles of a minimum 700 (seven hundred words) and maximum 1,500 (One thousand five hundred) words published in mainstream newspapers (including online editions), magazines and reputable journals.
- The awards are open for published and broadcasted works in the fields of print, radio, television, and online media. Only journalists who are COMESA nationals are eligible for the competition. The competition is open to individual journalists and not media institutions or organisations;
- All works entered for the competition shall be in one of the COMESA official languages, namely English, French and Arabic.
- The parameters for eligible entries include the following:
- Relevance: The entry should address economic developmental issues relevant to regional integration such as trade, transport, aviation, energy, transport, ICT, investments, gender, agriculture among etc.
- Regional dimension: The entry should have a regional dimension i.e. applying to or applicable to more than one regional State.
- Knowing COMESA: The entry should demonstrate awareness about COMESA regional integration programmes.
For more information, visit https://www.comesa.int/comesa-media-awards-2021/