Daniel Pearl Awards still accepting applications
The 2010 Daniel Pearl Awards competition, which honors the world's best cross-border investigative journalism, is accepting entries until January 15.
The contest is open to any journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in any medium. Entries must involve reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance.
Granted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the awards include two $5,000 first-place prizes, along with five additional $1,000 prizes. The awards will be presented at the 6th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in
There is no entry fee. Submissions from
AWARDS CRITERIA
To apply for the Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, follow the guidelines below and complete a Pearl Awards Application Form. Incomplete entries, as well as those that arrive after the deadline, will be disqualified.
Applicants:
Any professional journalist or team of journalists of any nationality is eligible to submit an individual investigative piece of work, or single-subject series, on a transnational topic of world significance. Works produced in print, broadcast, and online media are eligible; books are not eligible. In the case of a team of journalists, the first name listed on the application shall be deemed to be the designated representative of the team.
Criteria:
Work must have been first published or broadcast in general information media between
Submission Letter:
Include a brief synopsis of the story/series and explain the background of the project, identifying the issues and key players. Describe what led you to the topic, any unusual conditions you or your team faced in developing the project, and whether the investigation had any ramifications. If there were any challenges to the content of the story/series that were not reported in the original work, you must describe them in your letter. The submission letter should be in English and no longer than two typed pages. Curriculum vitae must be submitted for every reporter named in the entry.
Entry Fee:
None.
Deadline:
All entries must be postmarked no later than
Selection:
A five-member international jury of journalists and/or journalism educators will select the Pearl Awards winner and finalists.
Presentation:
Awards are made payable to the individual journalist responsible for the winning work or, in the case of a team of journalists, to the team’s designated representative. The Pearl Awards will be announced at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in
Signature and Permission:
The signature of the applying journalist (or the applying team’s designated representative) is required. If the copyright to the work is not owned by the applying journalist or team of journalists, the signature of the copyright owner (or its authorized representative) is also required. The signature grants ICIJ a non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, and distribute the work (in whole or in part) in any Center for Public Integrity/ICIJ publication in any media if the applicant is selected as a finalist or winner.
Awards Application
FULL NAME OF REPORTER(S):
POSTAL ADDRESS:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
WORK AND HOME TELEPHONE:
COMPANY CONTACT, E-MAIL AND TELEPHONE (IF APPLICABLE):
EMPLOYER (IF FREELANCER, PLEASE STATE):
ADDRESS OF EMPLOYER:
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE AWARD:
TITLE OF ENTRY:
DESCRIPTION OF ENTRY:
COUNTRIES IN WHICH REPORTING WAS DONE (THE REPORTER PHYSICALLY TRAVELED THERE):
MEDIUM:
WHERE/WHEN WORK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED OR BROADCAST:
SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT(S) AUTHORIZING PERMISSION TO REPRINT WORK (REQUIRED):
DATE:
Six copies of the published or broadcast entry, the submission letter, and curriculum vitae must accompany this application. Submit to:
ICIJ @ THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
TEL: 202-466-1300 FAX: 202-466-1101
E-MAIL: mwalker@icij.org
WEB: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/
About ICIJ
ICIJ was launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity to extend globally the Center’s style of watchdog journalism in the public interest by marshaling the talents of the world’s leading investigative reporters to focus on issues that do not stop at water’s edge.
For decades, people around the world have seen or heard news of global events simultaneously, from political and economic scandals to wars and natural disasters. But commercial demands of the news industry have often meant that such information is brief, disjointed, confusing in the larger context, and seemingly less relevant to people. Broadcast networks and major newspapers have closed many of their foreign bureaus, even as the Internet and satellites have made national borders permeable.
Yet many of society’s major issues today cannot even be broached without addressing their global dimensions and context. How, for example, can journalists investigate and write comprehensively about the international arms and drug trade, political corruption, financial fraud, or the environment without information on these subjects from different parts of the world? Too often, most of these kinds of significant but complicated issues are ignored.
Meanwhile, in many developing countries, investigative reporters are killed, threatened, or imprisoned with alarming regularity. Amazingly unbowed by these life-and-death realities, they are unable to communicate or collaborate with colleagues who may be doing similar work.
Following the successful path forged by the Center for Public Integrity, ICIJ and its international network of journalists investigate major global issues that affect us all and release its findings in media around the world.
ICIJ also supports international investigative journalism by showcasing the work of its individual members and by presenting the biennial Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
ICIJ is always on the lookout for outstanding investigative journalists. If you know of someone who should be considered for membership, please contact us using this form.
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