awards
Digital Heretics Journalism Award
The award invites the submission of online reportages incorporating video, audio, text, photographs, animation (or a mix of these) which make innovative use of the internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mash-ups, web 2.0, etc). The reportage must have been published in 2009 and can be in Italian or English. The first prize is 2,000 euros. The deadline for submission is 28 February 2010. The award is open to anyone under the age of 35 at the time of publication. The winner will be presented with the award during the 2010 festival.
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Stories on Umbria Journalism Award
The award invites the submission of articles or radio/TV programmes on Umbria published (including online publications) or broadcast in 2009. They can be in English or any other major European language. The total value of the first prize is 5,000 euros. The deadline for submission is 21 March 2010. The winner will be presented with the award during the 2010 festival.
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A Story Still to Tell: Maria Grazie Cutuli
The annual A Story Still to Tell award invites the submission of short articles and/or videos on the circumstances surrounding the murder of an Italian journalist. The 2010 award is dedicated to the memory of Maria Grazia Cutuli, journalist of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, killed in an explosion on 19 November 2001 on the road between Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan. In the attack the El Mundo correspondent Julio Fuentes and two Reuters correspondents Azizullah Haidari and Harry Burton also died. The 2007 first edition of the award was dedicated to Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovotin, the 2008 second edition to Enzo Baldoni and the 2009 third edition to Giancarlo Siani, murdered in Naples at the age of 26 while investigating local organised crime. The award is open to university students, journalism school students and journalists under the age of 30. First prize is 2,500 euros in both the written and video categories. The winners will be presented with the award during the 2010 festival.
