Citizen Journalism Africa Best Article Award 2009

5 Nov 2009 - 12:54 - 13 Nov 2009 - 12:54
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Event Type

Others

Venue

Online

Event Details

Nominate the best article published through the Citizen Journalism Africa Programme now! In honour of the commitment and hard work displayed by participants throughout the programme, we are awarding a prize for the best article published on the CJA portal.

For this competition, we are interested in how organisations/users have used and integrated web 2.0, writing and other skills built during the face-to-face training, online courses, training and handbooks. This is not only about journalistically sound articles, but we are also interested in how the article as a tool, may have supported democratic processes or raised awareness about a particular situation.

Judging will consider:

- Accuracy
- Relevance
- The extent to which the article is emotionally moving
- Whether the article is interesting
- The extent to which the article informs a readerThe article must be informative

Eligibility

All articles posted on the portal qualify for selection. But republished contents (from other media) will not be considered.

Judging Process

This is a peer to peer assessment. The competition is open to all CJA members. CJA member requested to send the title and link (URL) of their nominated article via email to noma@hivos.co.za Note: The author cannot vote for himself.

Prizes

There is one fantastic prize sponsored by CJA

Deadline

Excended

Enquiries

Enquiries about the competition can be addressed to Sithembiso Mkhwanazi 
sithembiso@hivos.co.za or Noma Rangana  noma@hivos.co.za Tel: +27 11 726 1090/1