The latest NAM newsletter includes info about the SOCAL Ethnic Media Awards plus a bunch of other stuff. -mia
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Start the new year off with a prize. Deadline Jan 31. -mia
Submissions For Hillman Prizes In Journalism
Due January 31, 2013
Annual Prizes Honor Excellence in Journalism in Service of the Common Good
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting submissions for the2013 Hillman Prizes that honor investigative journalism and commentary in the public interest.The 2013 prizes will be given for work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2012. Our categories include:
- books (non-fiction)
- newspaper reporting (print or online)
- magazine reporting (print or online)
- broadcast journalism (video or radio programs longer than 20 minutes)
- photojournalism (still photos that may or may not be part of a larger multi-media package)
- web journalism (online reporting done by an individual or an institution (text blog and/or multimedia), and
- opinion journalism (for commentary and analysis in any medium)
The received-by deadline for all submissions is January 31, 2013. There is no submission fee. View the submission form and application instructions.
Winners will be announced in April 2013. Each winner is awarded travel to New York City to receive a $5,000 prize and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel, at our awards ceremony and cocktail reception to be held Tuesday May 7, 2013 at the New York Times Center.
Submissions are judged by a distinguished panel of journalists: Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker, Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer, Harold Meyerson, Washington Post columnist and editor-at- large, The American Prospect, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher,The Nation, and Rose Marie Arce, senior producer, CNN.See previous winners here.
Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures who pursue investigative journalism and public policy for the common good. Sidney Hillman was the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of America, a predecessor union of Workers United, SEIU. Sidney Hillman, an architect of the New Deal, fought to build a vibrant union movement extending beyond the shop floor to all aspects of working people's lives.
For any questions, please contact:
Alexandra Lescaze
Executive Director, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
12 West 31st St., 12th fl., New York, NY 10001646-448-6413
alex@hillmanfoundation.orgFor more information, please visit our website at www.hillmanfoundation.org
Well hey – a new award for social justice journalism. Deadline March 8. Good money for good deeds = good news! -Mia
$25,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize Announced!
News Release-----Kalamazoo College Establishes Global
Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership
Contact: Jeff Palmer O: 269.337.5724 / C: 269.806.7700
jpalmer@kzoo.eduKalamazoo College officials announced today the
establishment of the Kalamazoo College Global Prize for
Collaborative Social Justice Leadership, a biennial
$25,000 prize that honors an innovative andcollaborative leadership project in the pursuit of
social justice and human rights anywhere in the world.
The inaugural $25,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize
will be awarded May 11, 2013, following a juried
competition administered by the College's Arcus Center
for Social Justice Leadership. Jurors include author,political activist, and University of California-Santa
Cruz scholar Angela Y. Davis; former Executive Director
of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights
Commission Cary Alan Johnson; and Detroit-based author,educator, and columnist Shea Howell. Howell is also a
board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to
Nurture Community Leadership, in Detroit.
A $5,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize, also juried,
will be awarded to a project in Southwest Michigan.
Jurors include a panel of K students, faculty, staff,
and Kalamazoo community members.
Entries-in the form of 8- to 10-minute videos-must be
received by March 8, 2013. Entry information, FAQ, and
more may be found at
www.kzoo.edu/SocialJusticeLeadershipPrize.
I recently spoke with WAMC’s Susan Barnett for her show 51% – The Women’s Perspective. She asked me about my freelancing experience and gave a nice shout out to Freelance Cafe. It was fun to be on the other side of the mic for a change! Listen to hear a bit about why I started FC and my thoughts on networking as an important part of making it as a freelancer.
This was 51% Episode 1220, broadcast on November 29 at 8pm and again on December 5 at 3pm.
Here’s a blurb about the show:
In America, women make up more than half the population. Worldwide, women are expected to outnumber men within the next fifty years. And every issue we face is one that affects us all.
Whether it’s the environment, health, our children, politics or the arts, there’s a women’s perspective, and 51% is a show dedicated to that viewpoint.
Host Susan Barnett talks to experts in their field for a wide-ranging, entertaining discussion of issues that not only fall into the traditional ‘women’s issues’ category, but topics that concern us all as human beings and citizens of the global community.
Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U. S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.
I've been hankering for one of these myself – go ladies, go! -Mia
Deadline is Jan. 23, 2013. They can apply here:http://www.newmediawomen.org/applying/guidelines
And they can see past winners at www.newmediawomen.org.
Best,
Jan
Jan Schaffer
Executive Director
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
Entrepreneur in Residence
American University School of Communication
3201 New Mexico Ave. NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC 20016
P: 202.885.8100
T: @janjlab
For you CA-philes. -Mia
This is Aldo at KQED in San Francisco and it’s that time of year again when we announce our Call for Entries for the series Truly CA.
We’re looking for submissions for next season’s Truly CA. Deadline for submissions is January 11, 2013.
Submission forms can be found at http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/entries.jsp and on our Facebook page
Truly CA showcases documentaries about California in two formats:
We welcome submissions from across the country that document the many faces of California. We run the gamut: this season we have everything from a gentle, nostalgic look back at Camp Beaverbrook to a survey of the experimental filmmaking antics of the Kuchar Brothers to an upcoming raw exploration of schizophrenia.
Through both Truly CA and our new series Film School Shorts (coming in 2013!), we hope to build online communities for new, fresh filmmakers across the country, highlighting the process, pain and joy of making that perfect piece of cinema.
If you’d like to share the word with your filmmaking community, like us on Facebook and share our link for the Call for Entries.
We hope to hear about the amazing documentaries being made! Please let me know if you have any questions about submitting a film or how you can spread the word.
Connect with TRULY CA, featuring the best documentary films about California made by independent filmmakers.
Visit us at http://www.kqed.org/trulyca
Like us! facebook.com/KQEDtrulyca
Deadline for the U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program: March 1, 2013
The next deadline for this program is March 1, 2013 for residencies in 2014.
The U.S/Japan Creative Artists' Program is extremely competitive; applicants should have regional or national recognition and anticipate a highly rigorous review of their work. Artists should also present compelling reasons for wanting to work in Japan.
Selected artists will receive:
· A grant award in the amount of $20,000 to cover housing, living, and professional expenses for either 1 artist or a collaborative team.
· Up to $2,000 for round trip transportation for the artist.
Additional information, including guidelines and the application, can be found at http://www.jusfc.gov/creative-artists-programs/
From the lovely folks at TAL. -mia
We've gotten hundreds of great pitches from you since we sent out our call for stories last Friday for the "This Week" show. Thank you so much. Now, we’re reissuing the call for help in hopes of filling some holes in our lineup. And, you guys: this show is going to be so much fun. Please be a part of it!
Just to remind you about the project, here's what we're doing: the show is for next week and the theme is “This Week,” meaning the show is united by the simple fact that all of the stories take place in the seven days prior to broadcast. It’s kind of a “news” show and kind of not. We’re hoping for a mix of more traditional, topical stories (a school board fight, a drug bust, even a weather-related story) and more personal, specific stories (a break-up, someone losing a job, moving to a new school, etc).
The eligible dates for this “This Week” show are Saturday, December 1st through Friday, December 7th. If you know of anything interesting happening – to you or someone you know – between Dec 1st and Dec 7th, we want to hear about it. It can be anything that matters to the people involved – just so long as something, however tiny, is at stake: a first date, a championship game, an audition, a medical diagnosis, the first day of a new business, or the last day of a dying one.
What we’re especially hoping for now are some lighter stories. Funny would be good. We’re also short on political stories – a local politics or news story would be great. Is some huge fight over a stoplight coming to a head the first week of December in your town? Is there any election aftermath playing out in your county in an interesting way?
Even if you don’t know of anything now, please keep your eyes and ears open and, if possible, even make your own recordings. Most smartphones have recording capabilities so if you come across some scene or event or even just are having an interesting conversation, record it! If you think it’s something we might want – just even as a small clip – email us and let us know what you’ve got and we may ask you to send it. (A note here: you can’t tape anyone secretly. All parties must know they’re being recorded for possible broadcast.) One of our favorite moments from the last “This Week” show was only a few seconds long. It was from a student on a class trip who taped a chaperone telling the kids: Please don’t push each other into the Grand Canyon. It went like this:
Ira Glass: So much has happened this week. What else? In the Grand Canyon on Wednesday, high school freshman were on a class trip.
Lauren: This is Lauren. We're walking down the trail to go to the Grand Canyon right now.
Teacher: Now. I know you wouldn't push anybody over the edge. But just don't even pretend to do it. OK? It's something we want to avoid. OK?
That’s the kind of stuff we’d love to hear.
Please send your pitches to: thisweek@thislife.org . You can also use that address to let us know if you have tape you’d like to email or upload to our server.
Thank you so much, again, for helping us make this show happen.
Sincerely, Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder
Two grant opportunities from the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins. Details below. -Mia
In 2013, the IRP will offer up to six year-long reporting fellowships to influential journalists and media figures who are actively engaged in the new media landscape, using new media and multimedia tools, with strong ties to a social media community, in order to support reporting projects on issues related to health, development, and innovation in the developing world.
Priority for these 12-month reporting grants will be given to journalists and other new-media practitioners from the United States, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, India, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and sub-Saharan Africa, but applications from other countries and regions are welcomed.
IRP New Media Fellows will receive a stipend of US$15,000 to produce new and original content focusing on issues specific topics dealing with themes related to poverty, health, foreign assistance/aid and economic progress in the developing world. All candidates must fill out an application form on which they should describe the stories they would produce during the calendar year 2013. A brief telephone interview with finalists would also be part of the selection process.
IRP New Media Fellows should propose producing both short-form and long-form reports in a variety of media, such as regular blog posts, tweets, video blogs, slideshows on Storify or Flickr, multimedia series, video documentaries, as well as in-depth stories online, in print, radio or television media. Multimedia productions are encouraged.
Application
deadline: December 10, 2012
Children of a migrant community working at a brick kiln near Bishanpur in Darbhanga district are vaccinated by a polio vaccination team.
Photo: "We – the solution" on Flickr
In 2013 the IRP will offer three separate reporting trips of 8 to 10 days each for US and international new media journalists to report on important global health and development issues in one country.
The first of those trips will be to India on February 17-27, 2013. Future trips in 2013 will be to South Africa in July and to Brazil in November.
I want to tell you about a new project we've launched called Sandy Storyline. It is a participatory documentary project that invites contributions from anyone with a cell phone or telephone. We are also working with lots of media makers and audio story tellers to collect storie in sound, photographs, and written stories. The technology we are using is developed by MIT Center for Civic Media and a tech start up called Cowbird.
Share a moment. Share an image. Share a reflection. Share a vision for the future.
Using any phone or mobile device you can contribute a story:
Send a text or picture message from your phone to storyline@vojo.co
Call (888) 803-9856 to record your testimony and listen to other people’s stories.
Want to help us collect stories? Email sandystoryline (at) gmail (dot) com to get involved.
Sandy StoryLine is a collaboration between HousingisaHumanRight.org, the MIT Center for Civic Media, in partnership with Cowbird, Interoccupy.net, Occupied Stories and a growing number of media makers, storytellers and people like you.
