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Mexico XVII - Communication

Communication perspectives - Mexico XVII AIDS Conference
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AMF Local AIDS Coverage Travel Grants and Story Honoraria

Region

Global, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, South Asia

Deadline Date

October 10 2005


The Asia Media Forum is sponsoring this competition for Asian journalists to produce stories on HIV/AIDS in their local country.
Accepted journalists will produce either a story or set of stories of at least 2,000
words. They will receive small grants for local travel (in-country) for about 3
nights, and an honoraria upon full submission/completion of work.



The stories
will be published in a series on the AMF website in the run-up to the December 1 World AIDS Day 2005.
Competition to be included in this series is open to journalists from Asia, who can choose to write in
English or in their local languages.



The AMF series will give priority to
the following themes:

  • human rights
  • marginalised groups
  • trade barriers
  • economic impacts
  • children
  • reproductive health and community
  • examples of creative efforts to address the pandemic

Stories should contain lots
of local colour and seek to bring out under-reported angles.




Funded stories need to be published in the writers' own publication, and will
appear on the
AMF website
. They will also be
distributed to regional and international media and users
by
Inter Press Service
Asia-Pacific
.


Click here
to
read more about this award.

Application Information

Proposals should be sent to info@asiamediaforum.org
and need to contain:

  • a specific story angle to be explored
  • the specific place (province, district) within the country to be visited for
    research/interviews (if applicable)
  • varied kinds of sources to be
    interviewed
  • a resume
  • two samples of work

Contact

Asia Media Forum (AMF)
info@asiamediaforum.org
AMF website

Placed on the Communication Initiative site October 06 2005
Last Updated October 06 2005

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