Kurt Schork Award for Journalists

Since 2002, the Kurt Shork Foundation has supported media workers from different countries, whose work is often life-threatening, but at the same time poorly paid. Three awards are awarded annually to journalists and freelancers who are not afraid to talk about corruption, injustice, and conflict in their reporting.

In 2019, entries are accepted from three categories of applicants:

1. Local reporter from a developing country or a country with an economy in transition, materials which are dedicated to events at home.

2. Freelancer covering events from the zones of military conflicts.

3. Journalist employed by an international company.

Requirements:

- you need to send 3 articles to the competition that were published in the media from June 1, 2018, to May 31, 2019;

- materials must be published in print or online publications;

- articles published in blogs, personal websites, and social networks are not accepted;

- reports should be devoted to controversial issues and important topics (for example, human rights, corruption, military conflicts);

- works must be sent in a text file (formats "doc", "docx", "RTF") or PDF-file.

Please provide a URL link or attach a scanned document (PDF or JPG) to each article as proof of publication. Together with the work, you must send a resume, a photo (no more than 250 KB), a translation of each material into English, as well as a short story about how you prepared the materials submitted for the competition.

Winners in each nomination will receive $ 5,000. Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Thomson Reuters headquarters in London. Applications are accepted until May 31.All the details on the site of the project.