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Registration for seminar to strengthen journalistic writing in English is now open

The News and Opinion University Agency (AUNO) of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of Lomas de Zamora, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will offer the seminar "English for Journalists," aimed at journalists who want to strengthen their journalistic skills in English. The program will be held every Wednesday in April at 6:00 […]

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Journalists from Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico among winners of Ortega y Gasset awards

The jury for the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards announced the winners of the 41st edition of the prizes, considered the most prestigious in journalism in Spanish. In the best story or investigation category, the winning project was about an Indigenous community on the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, published in Insight Crime. The story […]

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Pulitzer Center offers grants for reporting on tropical forests

"The Pulitzer Center is opening a new call for rainforest grant applications. We invite journalists, editors, and independent media organizations to submit proposals on Innovative Reporting: Mapping Transparency and Governance on Rainforest Issues.  During this historic election year around the globe, it’s important to take note of how these events may impact the world’s vital rainforests. […]

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UNESCO opens call for photographs on climate change and environmental emergencies

"UNESCO is inviting professional photographers from all over the world to send a sample of their best photographs reporting on environmental issues and emergencies. [...] The selected photographs will help to raise awareness on the work on environmental journalists and the importance of journalism and freedom of expression in the context of the current global […]

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Deadline for submissions for 2024 Cabot Prize is March 16

"Journalists and news executives based in the Western Hemisphere and press associations or news services that serve such organizations can be nominated for this award. Columbia University School of Journalism launches the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, which recognize journalists and news organizations with a distinguished body of work that has contributed to Inter­-American understanding. Honorees […]

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Entries Open for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards

“Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program has become an industry standard for excellence. Last year, the awards team received nearly 1,100 entries, from 29 countries on six continents. Winners […]

Last week to apply for UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize

Until next Feb. 15, nominations will be received for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, which each year “honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of […]

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IAPA calls for entries for Excellence in Journalism 2024 contest

"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is calling media professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain to participate in its Excellence in Journalism 2024 contest. Only journalistic pieces actually published between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024 in a daily newspaper, weekly, magazine, news agency, online publication or radio and television […]

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Nominations open for 2024 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Awards

"[...] The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) seeks nominations for the 2024 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award. Nominees can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers or citizen journalists who are from and work in Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe, Latin America/Caribbean or the Middle East. The award reflects the mission of ICFJ's Knight Fellowships, which create […]

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Gabo Journalism Award opens call for entries for its 12th edition

The Gabo Foundation has opened the call for entries for the 12th edition of the Gabo Journalism Prize, the award that will once again bring together an outstanding group of journalists from all over Ibero-America to Bogota, Colombia this year. Entries may be submitted until Feb. 29 through the registration platform. The nomination categories are […]

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Journalism support program offers funding for research on disinformation

“The Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in the Region (CAPIR, for its acronym in Spanish) is receiving expressions of interest from independent Latin American journalistic media that want financing, mentoring and training to investigate how disinformation works, who finances it and who is behind it. ... The selected media outlets will have to carry out […]

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Venezuelan journalist among winners of Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law 2023

"Venezuelan journalist and executive director of the Press and Society Institute of Venezuela (Ipys-Venezuela), Marianela Balbi, is one of the 12 people in the world to receive the 2023 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. The governments of Germany and France announced the list of those who will receive this award, […]