This is the archive blog of Journoz.Com, the Guide to Internet Information Sources for Ethical Australian Journalists. To view the main website, click here:
Archive:
August 20, 2004
George Munster journalism award
Print, broadcast and online journalists are invited to submit entries by August 27, 2004 for the 2004 George Munster Award, which recognises excellence in independent journalism.Presented each year by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (www.acij.uts.edu.au/) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), the award carries a prize of $1,000 for an outstanding piece of journalism published or broadcast in any medium.
Originally instituted as an award for freelance journalism, the George Munster Award was expanded in 1998 to include applicants who are not freelancers but are able to demonstrate independence of mind, acuity and excellence in their craft.
George Munster was a co-founder of the Nation, a fortnightly journal (later to merge with the Review to become Nation Review), and a freelance editor, journalist and writer of books. He later became an editor with Angus and Robertson Publishers and reverted to freelance work both as a journalist and book writer.
When George Munster's book Rupert Murdoch: A Paper Prince was launched in October 1985, a little over a year after his death, a number of his friends decided to commemorate his life and the outstanding contribution he made to journalism by instituting an annual journalism award.
The 2004 award presentation will be made on Friday 17 September, 2004, as part of the George Munster Journalism Forum conducted by the ACIJ in collaboration with ABC Radio National.
Application forms and further details available at www.acij.uts.edu.au
Contact: Dominic O'Grady
Phone: (02) 9514 2295
Posted by belinda at August 20, 2004 05:17 PM