Call for Nominations: Journalism Award (Australia)

This award enables the winning journalist to undertake a ‘seeing is believing’ visit to a developing country, interacting with passionate researchers and local farmers, and then sharing their stories with the Australian public.

“This award is part of their efforts to draw attention to the significant impact of research to improve food and nutrition security, and the role that Australians and Australian support play,” said Cathy Reade, Director of the Crawford Fund’s Outreach Program. Cathy develops the program for the visit in consultation with the winner and project partners, and accompanies the winner on the trip to make sure all goes well.

The prize will include economy class travel, travel/medical insurance, visa costs, accommodation and other general expenses. The winner is responsible for the arrangement and purchase of their passport and health/medical treatments prior to departure. The winner’s employer is responsible for employment related expenses, if any

Criteria

• Applications are invited from Australian journalists interested in winning a ‘seeing is believing’ visit to a country where they can experience and report on Australia’s work in international agricultural development.
• Each candidate will submit only one published print or audio-visual piece from work published/broadcast in Australian media within the stipulated period.
• Entries may touch on any topics that relate to the theme of global food security (food supply, production, R&D, trade, food loss and waste, biosecurity, training, policy issues etc.), but should not have just an Australian food security/supply focus.
• The name of the author/producer should be clearly attributable to the entrant.
• Journalists who have previously travelled on Crawford Fund visits to developing countries are welcome to enter but their entry cannot have been produced as part of an earlier Crawford Fund journalist visit. Previous winners of the journalism award cannot submit another entry for three years.
• Entries should be original pieces with a single person nominated as the author/producer. Entries need to have been published between Monday, 01 January 2023 and COB on Friday, 26 April 2024.
• All applications should submit a short biographical note including name and full contact details: email address, telephone number(s), postal address, town, country, and a copy or link to the original article (if available) to show that it has been published/broadcast in the nominated period.
• Entries from freelance journalists should indicate an intention to seek publication of further work produced from the visit, should the journalist win the prize.
• The entry should focus on an issue related to global food security from either an Australian or international perspective. Notification of approved selections will be made by July, and announced at the Crawford Fund’s Annual Conference.
• The entry must be a single story. Providing multiple pieces that make up a series is not allowed. In such a situation, select one story from the series for submission.

For more information, visit Crawford Fund.