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True Story Award
Friendly COLTA.RU Swiss magazine Reportagen in cooperation with the Bern WelCome Foundation announced the first True Story Award Longrids in history. Send your text, published in 2018, to the competition and get a bonus for your work from 3,000 to 30,000 Swiss francs right in Bern.
Here we publish ideology, criteria and conditions of the competition. Success!
Prize
True Story Award is the first global journalism prize. Its goal is to make the voices of reporters be heard outside the countries where they live and work. True Story Award is established by an independent fund. Reporters writing in 12 languages will be awarded the prize. Prize criteria are the depth of investigations, the quality of journalistic work and its social significance. 50 jury members from 29 countries will choose the 42 best texts of the year, from among which the winner will be chosen. The size of the first cash prize is 30,000 Swiss francs, the second is 20,000 francs, the third is 10,000 francs. The total size of the prize fund is 177,000 Swiss francs.
In the contest True Story Award can be attended by journalists from anywhere in the world who work in the genre of text report in one of 12 languages:
Arabic الوية
Chinese 中文
English English
French français
German Deutsch
Hindi हिन्दी
Italian Italiano
Japanese 日本語
Persian فاMی
Portuguese Portugu ty
Russian Russian
Spanish Español
The text can be submitted to the competition also translated into English.
True Story Award will be awarded to such reports that are characterized by: a description of real events, an in -depth investigation at the place of events, with the highest thoroughly the studied actual basis of the text and its lexical wealth. Literary essays, biographies and historical reconstructions for the competition will not be accepted (at the same time, of course, elements of these genres may be present in the report). The volume of the text is from 15,000 to 85,000 signs with spaces.
The jury will evaluate the following aspects of the text:
- investigation (depth, time spent, circumstances associated with each specific country where the investigation was conducted);
- quality (skill, reliability, stylistic perfection);
- significance (public, political and economic).
The filing of applications begins on November 2, 2018 and ends on January 10, 2019. For consideration, texts published online or printed from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 are accepted. These can be publications in daily or weekly newspapers, magazines or online publications. Repeated publications of texts, books and manuscripts created earlier are not accepted for the competition.
The texts should be represented in electronic form. By the end of February 2019, the corresponding jury within each language/region will take the three best texts. In total, 14 jury work in the competition: one of the 12 languages and two more, which will consider texts translated into English.
The Russian jury includes journalists Maxim Kashulinsky, Mikhail Ratgauz and Yuri Saprykin.
The texts must be submitted to the competition by their authors here at this link .
Applications are accepted until 12:00 (according to the Middle European time) on January 10, 2019.
Mission
The first global journalistic prize is designed to inspire and support journalists around the world in their work. In the XXI century, journalism as an integral critical institution of democracy is subjected to testing: the freedom of the press is limited, media are under political control, economic pressure and divided in digital space. Often the absence of versatile and independent coverage of events in the media prevents the formation of a free critical opinion. Moreover, it is important-in any society and in any country-the work of bold journalists, innovative journalists. It is for them that the True Award was created Story Award .
The main idea of the award is to supplement and expand the western view of the world that is prevailing today, which in North America and Europe is not seen in the same way in Arab countries, Africa and Asia. The prize encourages the expansion of prospects due to the view of reporters from different countries.
True Story Award has neither editorial, nor economic or ideological agenda. She just hopes to find and reward first -class journalists.
Prizes and award ceremony
To Bern for the True presentation ceremony Story Award will be invited by all 42 reporters nominated for the prize (the organizers take on the payment of flight, residence and food).
The size of the prize prize fund is 177,000 Swiss francs, which will be distributed as follows: each of 42 nominees will receive 3,000 Swiss francs at the True presentation ceremony itself Story Award .
The main jury of the competition will choose the three best texts of 42 nominated. The authors of these texts will receive the following monetary rewards:
-1st bonus: 30,000 Swiss francs;
-2nd prize: 20,000 Swiss francs;
-3rd award: 10,000 Swiss francs.
The ceremony will become part of the festival dedicated to the prize, and will be held on August 31, 2019 at the Berne Theater.
During the three-day festival, journalists will tell about their work: about 50 public events will take place, at which the authors will devote the listeners to the details of their investigations, describe the obstacles and the difficulties that they face, tell their stories and thus give the public to look at the events of modernity in a new way.
Fund
True idea and concept Story Award belong to Reportagen magazine. The award ceremony and the festival are organized in close cooperation with the BERN organization Welcome . The award is financed by the specially created True Story Award, which guarantees the premium in subsequent years.