Review the Regulations and register your contestant work here.
Miami (January 25, 2021) - The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) informed media professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain that on January 30 at midnight the application period for the 2021 journalistic excellence contest concluded.
Only those journalistic pieces actually published during 2020 in a newspaper, weekly, magazine or online publication will be considered as contestants. The closing date for the receipt of applications is January 30, 2021 at 12 at night.
A jury made up of members of the IAPA Awards Commission will choose the winner in each of the categories. The first prize in each of them is rewarded with US $ 2,000 (two thousand US dollars).
The award ceremony will be held in October 2021 during the 77th IAPA General Assembly. As every year, the IAPA will award the Grand Prize for Press Freedom to a person or organization with significant achievements in favor of this cause.
To participate it is not necessary to belong to the IAPA; just click here.
The 14 categories of the 2021 Journalistic Excellence contest are as follows:
1. Cartoon (sponsored by El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia)
2. News coverage on the internet (sponsored by TV Venezuela, Miami, Florida)
3. News coverage (sponsored by Grupo Opsa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
4. Alejandro Miró Quesada Garland mobile news coverage (sponsored by Debate Media, México)
5. Chronicle (sponsored by The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica )
6. Human rights and community service (sponsored by El Comercio, Lima, Perú)
7. Photography (sponsored by La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador)
8. Infographics (sponsored by Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
9. Opinion (sponsored by El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile)
10. Data journalism (Grupo de Comunicaciones Corripio, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
11. In-depth journalism (sponsored by La República, Lima, Perú)
12. Roberto Eisenmann Jr. environment journalism (sponsored by La Prensa, Panamá)
13. "FIU Global Health" health journalism (sponsored by the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, of Florida International University, Miami, Florida).
14. Pedro Joaquín Chamorro university journalism (sponsored by La Prensa, Managua, Nicaragua)
IAPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of freedom of the press and expression in the Americas. It is made up of more than 1,300 publications from the Western Hemisphere; and is based in Miami, United States.
