Deadline: 4 September 2023
The Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory is pleased to announce the third year of the Project SIREN Award for the most sensitive and responsible report on suicide.
Project SIREN is committed to advocate for better reporting practices on suicide and sees journalists and media persons as crucial allies to support suicide prevention activities. Responsible and sensitive reporting on suicides can help debunk the various myths on suicides, draw attention to the myriad of personal, social and systemic factors that can lead to an individual taking their lives and highlight that suicides are indeed preventable.
Prize Information
- The award for the most sensitive and responsible report on suicide (based on submissions) includes:
- Prize Money: INR 10,000 + Certificate + Citation
- All submissions for the award will be evaluated by a panel of experts.
Submission Criteria
- They invite submissions from individual journalists that have reported or written on suicide in the last year. The submission criteria are:
- Any report or story that focuses on one or several aspects of suicide and suicide prevention (news articles, general commentary, op-eds).
- Published in English in either a newspaper or an online publication.
- Published between July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
- Note:Â Mental health experts are not eligible for this award.
For more information, visit Keshav Desiraju India Mental Health Observatory.
