Learn Information Journalism Awards Straight Off Accepting Submissions
Last November, nosotros announced our back upwards for a novel Data Journalism competition, organized yesteryear the Global Editors Network. The challenger is straightaway opened upwards to submissions together with today nosotros hosted an effect at our offices inward London to part details on how to compete together with win a full of vi prizes worth EUR 45,000. The European Journalism Centre is running the challenger together with Google is sponsoring.
Journalism is going through an exciting—if sometimes wrenching—transition from off to online. Google is bully to help. We come across exciting possibilities of leveraging information to attain award-winning journalism. “Data journalism is a new, exciting component subdivision of the media industry, alongside at acquaint entirely a pocket-size issue of practitioners,” said Peter Barron, Google’s Director of External Relations. “We promise to come across the issue grow.”
In information journalism, reporters leverage numerical information together with databases to gather, organize together with attain news. Bertrand Pecquerie, the Global Editor Network’s CEO, believes the role of information will, inward particular, revolutionize investigative reporting. “We are convinced that in that place is a brilliant futurity for journalism,” he said at the London event. “This is non merely well-nigh developing novel hardware similar tablets. It is inward a higher house all well-nigh producing exciting novel content.”
The European Journalism Centre, a non-profit based inward Maastricht, has been running information preparation workshops for several years. It is producing the Data Journalism Awards website together with administering the prize. “This novel maiden should assist convince editors closed to the globe that information journalism is non a crazy idea, but a feasible component subdivision of the industry,” says Wilfried Ruetten, Director of the center.
Projects should hold upwards submitted to http://www.datajournalismawards.org. The deadline is Apr 10, 2012. Entries should bring been published or aired betwixt Apr 11, 2011 together with Apr 10, 2012. Media companies, non-profit organisations, freelancers together with individuals are eligible.
Submissions are welcomed inward 3 categories: data-driven investigative journalism, data-driven applications together with information visualisation together with storytelling. National together with international projects volition hold upwards judged separately from local together with regional ones. “We wanted to encourage non entirely the New York Times’s of the globe to participate, but media outlets of all sizes,” says Pecquerie. “Journalism students are too invited to enter, provided their run has been published.”
An all-star jury has been assembled of journalists from prestigious international media companies including the New York Times, the Guardian together with Les Echos. Paul Steiger, the onetime editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal together with founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica, volition serve equally president.
Winners volition hold upwards announced at the Global News Network’s World Summit inward Paris on May 31, 2012.
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)
Journalism is going through an exciting—if sometimes wrenching—transition from off to online. Google is bully to help. We come across exciting possibilities of leveraging information to attain award-winning journalism. “Data journalism is a new, exciting component subdivision of the media industry, alongside at acquaint entirely a pocket-size issue of practitioners,” said Peter Barron, Google’s Director of External Relations. “We promise to come across the issue grow.”
In information journalism, reporters leverage numerical information together with databases to gather, organize together with attain news. Bertrand Pecquerie, the Global Editor Network’s CEO, believes the role of information will, inward particular, revolutionize investigative reporting. “We are convinced that in that place is a brilliant futurity for journalism,” he said at the London event. “This is non merely well-nigh developing novel hardware similar tablets. It is inward a higher house all well-nigh producing exciting novel content.”
The European Journalism Centre, a non-profit based inward Maastricht, has been running information preparation workshops for several years. It is producing the Data Journalism Awards website together with administering the prize. “This novel maiden should assist convince editors closed to the globe that information journalism is non a crazy idea, but a feasible component subdivision of the industry,” says Wilfried Ruetten, Director of the center.
Projects should hold upwards submitted to http://www.datajournalismawards.org. The deadline is Apr 10, 2012. Entries should bring been published or aired betwixt Apr 11, 2011 together with Apr 10, 2012. Media companies, non-profit organisations, freelancers together with individuals are eligible.
Submissions are welcomed inward 3 categories: data-driven investigative journalism, data-driven applications together with information visualisation together with storytelling. National together with international projects volition hold upwards judged separately from local together with regional ones. “We wanted to encourage non entirely the New York Times’s of the globe to participate, but media outlets of all sizes,” says Pecquerie. “Journalism students are too invited to enter, provided their run has been published.”
An all-star jury has been assembled of journalists from prestigious international media companies including the New York Times, the Guardian together with Les Echos. Paul Steiger, the onetime editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal together with founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica, volition serve equally president.
Winners volition hold upwards announced at the Global News Network’s World Summit inward Paris on May 31, 2012.
(Cross-posted from the European Public Policy Blog)