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Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award

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The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) are collaborating in instituting the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award
for young women journalists. The Award was set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. It is one of several efforts undertaken by her family to keep her concerns and ideas alive. It is meant to encourage and honour young women journalists who, like her, believe in meaningful journalism and have the courage and determination to write on issues relating to human rights and social justice. The Award will include a citation and a cheque for Rs.15,000.

Application Info

Nominations for the 2007 Award are being accepted through January 7 2007. Nominated individuals should be female print journalists living in India and writing in English. The broad themes to be addressed in the entries are human rights and social justice, especially in the areas of basic needs (including access to natural resources), gender equality, and the environment. Specific topic areas within these themes will be announced each year.

For the 2007 award the topic area is: human rights and women/girls.

Eligibility Criteria:

  1. The 2007 Award is for Indian women journalists aged 25 or less, working in or contributing to the print media in India in English.
  2. All female journalists in this age group, including freelance journalists, are eligible.
  3. The award is for a body of published work (a minimum of three articles) over a two-year period (the 2007 Award will be for articles published between January 2005 and December 2006)
  4. Among journalists who make it to the short list, those from rural backgrounds and from Dalit and Adivasi communities will be given
    special consideration.

Nominations, sent to the address below, must include:

a. a short write-up on the nominee and her contact details (including postal address, phone number and e-mail ID)

b. Three bylined articles relating to this year's specified topic (each of the three submission must include an original clipping and a xerox copy)

All nominations must be typed; all submitted articles must be printed/published. Please write "Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award 2007" on the envelope.

Apart from editors and other media professionals, members of the reading public are also welcome to send in nominations.

All nominations must be received by January 7 2007.

Source

Email from "Open Space" to the MediaMentor listserv, December 19 2006.