Deadline: April 4, 2014
Global Editors Network (GEN) invites Journalists worldwide for the 2014 Data Journalism Award. GEN is a cross-platform community committed to sustainable, high-quality journalism, empowering newsrooms through a variety of programmes designed to inspire, connect and share. The Data Journalism Awards 2014 will be awarding a €2,000 Prize to each of the seven categories plus a special €2,000 prize for the juror’s choice.
Eligibility:
- Media companies, non-profit organisations and freelancers or individuals are all eligible for the Data Journalism Awards.
- Works produced by individuals or teams of staffers from media companies and non-profit organisations, as well as freelancers or individuals are all eligible for entry.
- Works that are the result of a collaboration between organisations may also be submitted.
- Those works produced by staffers or freelancers collaborating with government agencies, business or trade organisations with a stake (financial or of other nature) in the issue at hand are not eligible.
- Works that include significant input from the members of the jury will not be accepted for entry into the competition.
- The DJA administrators have the final authority to determine whether an entry is eligible or not.
Criteria:
- All work must have been published or aired between 10 April 2013 and 4 April 2014.
- All submissions must be in English. Entries in languages other than English will be accepted provided that they are accompanied by translations of the work. Words included in graphics, databases and applications must also be translated.
- Radio material must be transcribed in English and video material must contain English subtitles. If a work originally published in a language other than English passes the pre-jury selection stage, applicants may be asked to provide additional information and translations.
- Entries are allowed to have been published on any other media platform: online, radio, audio, broadcast, print or a combination of platforms.
- Entries are allowed to be an individual work or a series of works.
- There is no limit to the amount of entries that can be submitted by one applicant. Applicants may submit the same entry to several categories. During the pre-selection, the jury will choose which category is most adequate for your submission.
- There are no submission fees, however translation costs may be incurred for works published in languages other than English, which will need to be covered by the applicant.
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