Fernando Pacheco Jordão Young Journalist Award (Brazil)

About This Edition

• Aimed at undergraduate students regularly enrolled in Journalism courses offered in the national territory by institutions accredited by the Ministry of Education (MEC), the Fernando Pacheco Jordão Young Journalist Award (PJJ) aims to encourage the development of agendas related to Human Rights and stimulate reporting, observing good practices and principles of good journalism – method, responsibility and ethics. It presents itself as an auxiliary force for Journalism schools in view of the commitment to collaborate with the training of future press professionals.
• This year, the PJJ adopts as its central theme: “The many faces of Brazil: what does the new Demographic Census reveal about the Brazilian population?” and invites journalism students to prepare agenda proposals that use data and information from the 2022 Census organized by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
• The Demographic Census is the main source of reference for knowing the living conditions of the population in all municipalities in the country and in their internal territorial areas. The survey provides updated and accurate numbers, which constitute a true diagnosis of society and are fundamental for the creation and implementation of public policies. For Journalism, the Census offers a huge amount of data and information that can be used as a starting point and input for the production of reports and analyzes that help reveal more about the Brazilian population. Furthermore, a society that knows itself is better able to demand effective actions from its rulers to combat social inequalities and injustices. With data obtained through scientific means and historical series duly available and updated, it is possible to plan a future with more rights and opportunities.
• In this 16th edition, 5 (five) agenda proposals will be selected, one from each region of the country. The state in which the IES is located will be considered a regionality criterion. Groups must necessarily be formed by 2 (two) or 3 (three) students and 1 (one) guiding teacher. The members of each winning group (students plus faculty) will have expenses paid by the Vladimir Herzog Institute to participate in the diploma event in São Paulo, in addition to the Vladimir Herzog Journalistic Award ceremony for Amnesty and Human Rights and the Conversation Round with the winners. The program is still being defined by the Vladimir Herzog Institute and its partners and will take place in October 2024.
• The Vladimir Herzog Institute and its partners believe that it is an absolute priority to increase the participation of black students from public schools in high school in this project. To this end, the following initiatives were taken:
  • Insertion, in the registration form, of a field for students to indicate whether, upon entering higher education, they benefited from any affirmative action policy (which already includes racial issues and public school students in high school) and a field of racial self-declaration for male and female teachers;
  • Determination that at least 1 (one) of the winning groups has at least 1 (one) student benefiting from some affirmative action policy;
  • Specific promotion of the PJJ among groups of black people and quota holders in several Brazilian colleges and universities.

Funding Information

• Each team with a selected agenda proposal will have financial support in the amount of R$ 5,000.00 (five thousand reais) to be used in the production of the journalistic piece produced on video, under the guidance of a professor from their educational institution and of a mentor journalist appointed by the Vladimir Herzog Institute.

Eligibility Criteria

• Students are not allowed to participate in more than one group.
• Members of a group may be students from different semesters of the Journalism course, but must be from the same Higher Education Institution.
• Proposals must consider the theme of this 16th edition with guidelines developed in the regions where the candidates study.

For more information, visit Vladimir Herzog Institute.