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Announcing a Journalism Contest:

The Best Coverage of Conservation in the Caucasus Region

Open to journalists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia for stories on conservation issues published or broadcast between July 1, 2007 and May 31, 2008.

First prize: $1,000 (USD), a plaque and certificate of recognition;

Second Prize: $500 (USD), a plaque and certificate of recognition;

Third Prize: $200 (USD), a plaque and certificate of recognition;

Open to all media: print, radio and television.

Stories may be submitted in any language. Contest organizers will translate entries into Russian for judging. Radio and television stories may be submitted on compact disks accompanied by written scripts. Print entries should be delivered as electronic files. Each applicant can submit no more than 2 stories;

Distinguished journalists from each country of the region will evaluate stories and select the winners.  

An announcement of the winners and the best stories from the Caucasus will be posted on the Internet Web site of the Biodiversity Reporting Awards, together with winners from countries in Latin America and Africa.

The winners will be brought to Tbilisi to receive their awards at a ceremony in September, 2008;

Deadline for entries: June 6, 2008

Entries should be submitted by e-mail (tiniko@gfsis.org) or postal service: 3/a Chitadze st.; Tbilisi, Georgia.

Questions? Contact Tiniko Dvalishvili at CCFJ, +995 (99) 58 55 71;

The contest and journalism training on this topic are administered by the International Center for Journalists, Washington, D.C., USA, with local partners led by CCFJ. These activities to encourage better coverage of the conservation of biodiversity in the region are sponsored by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), a joint venture of the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Conservation International.

Nature does not recognize national borders. CEPF works in five countries in the Caucasus – Europe’s most diverse region for plants and animals – to protect species and their habitat and encourage sustainable development.

 

Environment Program Participant Starts Impact Blog

Jesus Manuel Angulo began writing a blog about global-warming and other environmental issues after attending the Sustainable DeveloWorkshop in March 2007.

Jesus adds, "I should thank Rob Taylor, director of Environment programs at ICFJ; Talli Nauman, founder and co-director of Journalism to Raise Environmental Awareness and to Jim Detjen, director of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. They were for my source of deep inspiration and interest in environment."

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Immigration Participant Awarded NAHJ Journalism Award

Isabel C. Morales
was awarded the Print – Breaking News award in the 2007 NAHJ Journalism Awards for her entry “Immigration Protest”.

Isabel will be recognized on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at the 22nd Annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC.

Congrats Isabel!

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Former Scripps Fellow Awarded Fulbright
Former Scripps Ethics program participant Paúl Mena wins Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of South Florida, where he plans to do research on journalism ethics and training for journalists.

"As I said in the essay for the (Fulbright) application form, the ethics course I took at ICFJ in 2003 changed the way I was doing my profession," Paúl says.
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Immigration Blog
Read about how immigration program participants are putting lessons learned during the April 15-24 to work at their home newsrooms on their blog at: icfj.typepad.com.

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The Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship
The six-week fellowship program will begin with a three-day orientation and professional program for the participant in Washington, D.C. The journalist then will depart for a two-week assignment in the newsroom of a Spanish-language media organization in the United States, followed by another assignment at a prestigious newspaper or TV station in Latin America. At the conclusion of the professional newsroom attachments, the fellow will attend a wrap-up and evaluation program which will include trainer-training techniques.


Scripps Howard Latin American Media Ethics Seminar

The overall goals of this proposed training course are to assist news media and journalists in Latin America to identify common threads of professional behavior, stimulate a dialogue about journalism independence, discuss country-specific principles of conduct, and encourage participants to reflect on their own personal code of ethics and to continue the discussion about ethics in their own newsrooms. This program is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation.

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