Deadline: July 31, 2017
The International Center for Journalists is pleased to announce a competition to recognize the best media coverage of maternal health, child health, and other urgent health issues. The contest has helped to increase the quality and quantity of news coverage on key health issues in targeted countries and regions across the globe. Now in its fourth year, ICFJ’s 2017 Global Health Reporting Contest seeks to continue building on the program’s previous years’ successes by catalyzing local networks of leading health reporters in Brazil, China, India, Russia, and sub-Saharan Africa. This year, the program will offer reporting grants to former contest winners with the aim of spurring additional high-quality storytelling on health topics.
Contest topics may include (but is not limited to):
- Reducing maternal, infant and child mortality;
- Reducing disease transmission from mother to child;
- Preventing malnutrition;
- Improving delivery of care and infrastructure for maternal and child health;
- Responses to the Ebola epidemic;
- Innovative approaches to delivery of vaccines.
Benefits
Journalists in the targeted countries have the opportunity to participate in a 12-day study tour in the United States and receive cash prizes as part of regional competitions to recognize high quality coverage of maternal and child health, as well as other urgent health matters such as diseases and vaccinations.
Eligibility
- To qualify for the contest, stories must focus on key health topics in the journalists’ regions and be published, broadcasted, or posted online in Brazil, China, India, Russia, or sub-Saharan Africa between Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 and Monday, July 31st, 2017;
- Journalists from each country must be employed by print, broadcast, or online media in order to qualify;
- The contest is also open to affiliated freelance journalists with a letter confirming their work by an editor;
- Submitted work must have appeared in a media outlet based in each region or distributed mainly in the region;
- Submissions will be accepted in English, French (Africa), Hindi (India), Mandarin/Cantonese (China), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia). Submissions in other languages must include an English translation;
- Applicants may submit more than one entry.
Application Process
- Are you eligible to apply? Then complete the application form!
- In the form please include all of the requested information. Provide links to websites that published or aired the stories between Feb. 1, 2017, and July 31, 2017;
- You also can upload stories to YouTube/Vimeo, Dropbox, or SoundCloud and include links or upload PDFs in this application.
For more information, visit ICFJ Global Health Reporting Contest.
