The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) invites media organisations in the Americas to submit entries for the 2008 IAPA Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The competition is open to news articles published in 2007 in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication in any of the following languages: English, Spanish, or Portuguese.



The Grand Prize for Press Freedom will be awarded to a person or organisation who has significantly contributed to advancing the cause of the freedom of the press. In addition to the Press Freedom Prize, awards for outstanding journalism will be given in 11 categories:

• International relations
• Human Rights
• News Coverage
• Features
• In-Depth Reporting
• Photography
• Cartoons
• Infographics
• Opinion
• Newspaper in Education
• Online News Coverage

All work submitted must have been published in 2007. The text content should be prepared in Word format and the images of the pages on which the material was published should be in PDF, JPG, or TIFF format.

The deadline for application is January 15 2008

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This year's winner of the Grand Prize for Press Freedom was Marcel Granier, president of Venezuelan television station RCTV, and the station's journalists, for defending their right to free speech after having lost the station's broadcasting license. Click here for information about the 2007 winners.