Deadline: 1 August 2023
Nominations are now open for the Qarib Journalism Awards to recognize and promote journalism that amplifies underrepresented voices and topics.
The awards prioritize the coverage of women, marginalized groups and environmental issues while maintaining the highest ethical and journalistic standards. This includes challenging stereotypes about the role of female journalists.
Women continue to be underrepresented in political, security, and economic reporting, and thus their perspectives on these issues relevant to society as a whole. In addition, the awards aim to elevate the voices of other socioeconomically, religiously and ethnically marginalized groups. Climate change as well as environmental issues in general that affect all members of Middle Eastern society, are also not sufficiently covered despite their relevance.
Categories
- Best coverage of security and politics by female journalists.
- Best business and economy reporting by female journalists.
- Best reporting on climate change and the environment.
- Best coverage of minorities.
Benefits
- In each category, Qarib will award three winners:
- 2000 USD for the first place,
- 1500 USD for the second place,
- 1000 USD for the third place.
- The special price for the best reporting concept for the COP 28 in Dubai will include a full travel stipend, including costs for board and lodging for up to seven days during the climate conference in December.
- The 15 award winners will be honored at a ceremony in Amman on October 12th, 2023. The Qarib program will cover all expenses for the winners to attend the event.
Eligibility Criteria
- Practicing individual freelance journalists, teams of journalists and staff journalists from media outlets in Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon are eligible to apply.
- All journalistic formats and forms are eligible, i.e. videos, print and online articles, radio reports and podcasts as well as TV and multimedia reports, columns, feature and investigative reports.
- Submitted contributions must have been published between 01 November 2022 and the end of the application period on 01 August 2023.
For more information, visit CFi Media Development.
