Deadline: 9 August 2024
Thomson Foundation in partnership with the UK Foreign Press Association (FPA) is currently inviting submissions for the Young Journalist Award.
The award brings international recognition and as Yara discovered opportunities to meet international editors. She has had several articles published by The Guardian after visiting the media group’s London Headquarters when she was in the UK to receive her prize.
Eligibility Criteria
- Each entrant should submit a portfolio of three published or broadcast pieces of work produced in the 12 months preceding (prior to) the award deadline for submissions which is midnight GMT on 9th August 2024. The entries can be in any format: print, audio, video, multimedia, or a combination of all four.
- Yara joins a select group of talented young journalists from countries including from India, Taiwan, Sudan, Peru, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Uganda, and Kenya who have won the award.
- All entrants should be reporting from their home country as defined by the GNI or, if not in their country of origin, in another country fitting the same criteria. Applicants also need to provide an explanation of any collaboration undertaken with colleagues or external organisations on the stories they submit.
- Journalists who enter for the FPA award will need to submit a written statement of no more than 200 words per story, giving a summary of the content, and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast should also be submitted.
- The competition enables journalists aged 30 and under, from countries with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of less than USD20,000, to send in their best stories to be examined by the judges.
- Entries can be in any language but should be accompanied by a verbatim English-language translation.
For more information, visit Thomson Foundation.
