Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The Canadian Journalism Foundation in association with the Canadian Women’s Foundation is nominating applications for the Landsberg Award.
The award celebrates a journalist who is raising awareness about women’s equality issues in Canada and aims to inspire an increase in the media coverage and voice of women in Canada.
The award is named after Michele Landsberg—an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, social activist and feminist—to acknowledge the tremendous impact that she has had as an advocate and role model for all women in Canada. The award will inspire relentless and fearless journalists to consider Canadian news from a women’s equality perspective.
Award Categories
- CJF Black Journalism Fellowships Program: This program was launched to amplify Black voices, improve coverage of Black issues in the news and cultivate future Black media leaders, with CBC/Radio-Canada and CTV News as its first partners. This year, CJF welcomes a new partnership with the Investigative Journalism Bureau for the CJF-IJB Black Investigative Journalism Fellowship.
- CJF Award for Climate Solutions Reporting: This award, carrying a $10,000 cash prize, recognizes excellence in reporting on what is being done in Canada and beyond to address the impact and threat of climate change – the policies, practices and people that could potentially be part of the solution to this global crisis. Thanks to founding sponsor Intact Financial Corporation.
- CJF-Facebook Journalism Project Digital News Innovation Award: This award is a joint initiative by the CJF and the Facebook Journalism Project, recognizing innovations in digital media that have a demonstrated impact in advancing the quality of digital journalism. The winning organization will receive a $10,000 prize.
- CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism: This award honours an organization that embodies exemplary journalism with a resulting impact on the community it serves, in both small media and large media categories.
- Lifetime Achievement Award: This award recognizes a substantial contribution by a Canadian journalist to the profession.
- CJF-CBC Indigenous Journalism Fellowships: These fellowships offer two early-career Indigenous journalists the chance to explore issues of interest. The fellows are hosted for one month by CBC News at its Indigenous Unit in Winnipeg. Thanks to the generous support of new sponsor Sobeys Inc. and donor Isabel Bassett.
- The Landsberg Award: Named after Michele Landsberg–award-winning journalist, author, social activist and feminist–this award celebrates a journalist who is raising awareness about women’s equality issues in Canada and aims to inspire an increase in the media coverage and voice of women in Canada.
- Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award: This award offers a six-week paid internship at The Canadian Press head office in Toronto to a photojournalist in the early stages of their career. The annual internship is designed to give a photographer trying to break into the business a chance to perform on the national stage. This award is sponsored by Sony.
Award Details
- The award recipient will receive a $5,000 prize from the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Awarded to a working journalist (employed or freelance) who has done the most to shine a spotlight on women’s equality issues in Canada in print, broadcast or online news reporting in 2021.
- Entries involving more than one contributor are welcome and will be judged as a single submission. Submissions are welcome in the following formats: article, column, online piece, editorial, op-ed, radio program, podcast, television program or documentary film.
For more information, visit https://cjf-fjc.ca/awards/landsberg-award