Awards August–September
AOP ONLINE PUBLISHING
Deadline: 25 July
Categories: (12 include) launch, team, project, innovation, cross-media project, use of video, online community, website
Prizes: awards
Sponsors: AOP, NMA, Brand Republic, advertising.com, Convera, Deloitte, Macrovision, PPA,
Contact: ron.nussey@ukaop.org.uk
TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT
Deadline: 25 July
Categories: (1) contemporary portrait
Prizes: £12,000
Sponsors: Taylor Wessing
Contact: www.npg.org.uk/photoprize
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Deadline: 31 July
Categories: (1) article on 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Prizes: €500–2,000
Sponsors: Eastern Mag
Contact: www.easternmag.eu/latvia/
BRITISH SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS
Deadline: 31 July
Categories: (9) editors, new editor, art director, launch, website, innovation/brand building initiative, campaign, editors’ editor, Mark Boxer award
Prizes: awards
Sponsors: BSME
Contact: www.bsme.com
AAAS SCIENCE JOURNALISM
Deadline: 1 August
Categories: (6) large, small newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, online
Prizes: $3,000
Sponsors: Johnson & Johnson
Contact: sja@aaas.org
THE BEVINS PRIZE
Deadline: 11 August
Categories: (1) investigative reporting: up to 5 articles on single topic
Prizes: Statue of a Rat up a Drainpipe (the late Tony Bevins’ catchphrase)
Sponsors: Bevins Trust, Society of Editors
Contact: bevinsprize@googlemail.com, www.bevinsprize.org
MISA PRESS FREEDOM
Deadline: 12 August
Categories: (5) photography, print, video, internet, media associations promoting media freedom in South Africa
Prizes: $2,500
Sponsors: MISA
Contact: communications@misa.org
PCS/WORDS SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Deadline: 30 August
Categories: (1) creative writing in the UK
Prizes: £250-£100
Sponsors: WORDS Magazine
Contact: www.wordsmag.com/tradeunion.htm
PAUL FOOT AWARD
Deadline: 1 September
Categories: (1) campaigning journalism
Prizes: £5,000, £1,000 runner up
Sponsors: Private Eye, The Guardian
Contact: Digby.Halsby@midaspr.co.uk
SKY YOUNG JOURNALIST
Deadline: 1 September
Categories: (4) under 20, TV, online, radio, print
Prizes: iMACs,
Sponsors: BSkB
Contact: www.journalism.co.uk/shorturl/ZGUQE
RORY PECK
Deadline: 2 September
Categories: (3 freelance cameramen/women) news, freelance, impact
Prizes: awards
Sponsors: Sony
Contact: www.rorypecktrust.org
EASTERN EUROPEAN JOURNALISM
Deadline: 19 September
Categories: (1) work on social situation and living conditions of the people of central and eastern Europe
Prizes: €2,000
Sponsors: Renovabis
Contact: presse@renovabis.de
PLAIN ENGLISH CAMPAIGN
Deadline: 30 September
Categories: (3) national, regional newspaper, TV programme
Prizes: awards
Sponsors: Plain English Campaign
Contact: info@plainenglish.co.uk