Deadline: May 1st, 2018
The international magazine Cancer World is looking for outstanding pieces of journalism published between October 2016 and April 2018 that are changing the way we think about cancer.
The Cancer World Journalism Award encourages, celebrates and rewards journalists who deliver insights into the personal and social impact of the disease, and efforts to change policy, practice or advocacy.
We are looking for journalists to submit one or more items of their work – whether in print, online, on radio, video or television – into the following categories:
Patient and carer experience
Research, science and treatment
Policy, services and affordability
Prevention
In all categories, we are looking for articles/programmes that move beyond documenting experience, science, policy and practice. We want to find work that challenges, addresses urgent questions, increases awareness and prompts change. We are particularly looking for serious investigative journalism.
Benefits:
A prize of €1500 is available for the winner in each category.
The journalist judged the overall winner will also be funded to attend the 2018 ECCO Summit in Vienna (7 th -9 th September 2018) , where he/she will be presented with their award.
Applications are now open and can be made online via the Cancer World website www.cancerworld.net
Procedure and rules
- Each entry – an article or video/audio file – must be entered under one specific category.
- Journalists can enter up to three pieces of work, but each must be entered separately into a specific category.
- Only entries made online at ://cancerworld.net/media/cancerworld-journalism-award/ will be accepted.
- Each entry must have been published/broadcast between October 2016 and April 2018.
- If the entry being submitted is not in English, it should be accompanied by an English translation. Entrants may use whichever method of translation they like, including Google Translate. The judges want to encourage entries from as many countries as possible, so will be sympathetic to translation difficulties. However, the translation must be of sufficient quality to allow a proper judgement of the work to be made.
- Television, video or radio entries must be made available from a website such as YouTube or Vimeo so that a link can be provided to judges.
- The judges reserve the right to change the category that an entry is entered into.
- The judges reserve the right not to award a prize in a category if they believe entries are of insufficient quality.
- Journalists should provide a statement of no more than 150 words with each entry, explaining why it deserves recognition.
