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The World Young Reader Prizes

Region

Global

Deadline Date

July 5, 2010

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) invites entries for the World Young Reader Prizes. This competition awards newspapers that have devised innovative projects or activities for young readers (under age 25).

Projects submitted to the Young World Leader Prize may be in one of six categories:

  1. Editorial: A newspaper content strategy;
  2. Making the News: Activity that gives young people the chance to experience professional newspaper practice;
  3. Newspapers in Education (NIE): Use of the newspaper as a teaching tool;
  4. Public Service: Public service project in areas such as press freedom, literacy, youth civic involvement, etc.; and
  5. Brand: Other projects that improve a newspaper brand's relationship with youth; and
  6. Special Prize - Enduring Excellence: Newspaper projects more than two years old that continue to help both the young and the newspaper itself.


The jury will take into consideration the contribution the programme has made to the newspaper business. This could be in terms of revenue generation, circulation, readership growth, or brand awareness. Each winner will receive EUR1,000.

Entries must be based on a single project or a series of related activities conducted in the 24 months before the entry deadline. Each participant must send in send in a PowerPoint presentation, limited to no more than 15 megabytes on a CD or 5 megabytes via email, of their project in English.


Application Information

Click here for full prize guidelines.

Contact

Millie Cherfils
World Young Reader Prize

World Association of Newspapers (WAN) Secretariat
7 Rue Geoffroy St Hilaire

Paris
75005
France
Tel: 331 47 42 85 00

Source

WAN website on November 17 2009; and email from Millie Cherfils to The Communication Initiative on November 17 2009.



Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site July 03 2008
Last Updated November 17 2009



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