Nieman Foundation Encourages NPPA Members To Enter Taylor Awards
DURHAM, NC (January 1, 2008) - Ellen Tuttle of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism is encouraging National Press Photographers Association members to apply for the 2008 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers.
"The award, which carries a $10,000 prize, was established through gifts for an endowment by members of the Taylor family, who published The Boston Globe from 1872 to 1999," Tuttle said. "For the first time, second and third place finalists will receive $1,000 each. The purpose of the award, which is administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, is to encourage fairness in news coverage by America’s daily newspapers."
Nominations may be a single story, a photograph, an editorial, or a commentary; a series of stories, photographs, editorials, or commentaries; or a body of work by an individual journalist.
Entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, January 18, 2008, for work published in a U.S. daily newspaper during the previous calendar year.
Anyone may submit a nomination by sending to the address below five copies of the work and a letter explaining why the entry is an exemplary example of fairness in newspapers. The letter should also describe how the work was developed, reported, and presented to readers in the context of fairness. In evaluating work, submitters should consider all aspects of the journalistic process: reporting, writing, editing, headlines, photographs and illustrations, and presentation.
Entries are to be sent to:
Taylor Family Award for Fairness
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
One Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information about the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, visit their Web site here.
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