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The Global Shining Light Award
The Toronto Global Investigative
Journalism (TGIJ) is calling for nominations for the Global Shinning
Light Award. The TGIJ conference will present an award for investigative
journalism in a developing country or a country in transition, which was
reported under threat, duress or in the direst of conditions.
CRITERIA:
The journalist, journalism team and/or
media outlet provided independent, investigative reporting, which was
broadcast or published between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006,
and which:
• Originated in and affected a developing
or emerging country
• Was of an investigative nature
• Uncovered an issue, a wrong-doing and/or
a system of corruption which gravely affected the common good, and
• Did so in the face of arrest,
imprisonment, violence against them and their families, and/or threats
and intimidation
NOMINATIONS:
Nominations for this award may be made by
independent Investigative journalism organizations, associations of
journalists, independent media outlets, or an individual investigative
journalist.
SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE:
• A nomination letter listing the
journalist’s name (or names of team members), and name of his/her media
organization with address, telephone number, fax and email.
• The letter should provide a brief
summary of the entry topic, explaining the importance of the story, the
challenges faced in reporting it, and the political or social impact it
made upon its broadcast or publication.
• One copy of the published entry or one
copy of the broadcast material with a copy of the script
Entries must be received in Toronto no
later than February 16, 2007.
Entries should be sent to: Sandra
Bartlett, CBC National Radio News, Room 3B200C,
P.O. Box 500, Station A, Toronto, M5W1E6
BACKGROUND
Each year dozens of journalists and media
workers are killed - and hundreds more are attacked, imprisoned or
threatened - just for doing their job. Many of these violations of free
expression occur in developing or emerging countries, and quite often
during military conflicts. There are a number of international awards
recognizing such attacks on freedom of expression.
However, another clear trend emerges in
analyses of global attacks on reporters and the media. More and more
journalists are being killed, and media outlets attacked, because they
are carrying out important efforts in investigative journalism, exposing
uncomfortable truths, shining light on systemic corruption, and
providing accountability in societies yearning for democracy and
development. The recent murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna
Politkovskaya is just one example of the rising threat to investigative
journalism around the world. The Toronto conference wants to recognize
and celebrate these courageous investigative journalists and their work.
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