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World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence

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"The awards encourage all people working in the media sector to keep honing their professional skills and pursue excellence, while inspiring media setups to work with the times in the spirit of innovation."

The World Media Summit (WMS) is accepting entries for the WMS Global Awards for Excellence. The awards are open to news agencies, newspapers, TV stations, and news websites around the world.

Categories include:

  • Awards for Public Welfare - which "are especially set up for media organizations and professionals in developing countries, where more efforts for journalism development are still needed":
    • Award for Exemplary News Teams in Developing Countries, which "commends media units or organizations in developing countries for their outstanding contribution to political, economic and cultural development, and to public services."
    • Award for Exemplary News Professionals in Developing Countries, which "commends media professionals in developing countries for their outstanding contribution to political, economic and cultural development, and to public services."
  • Award for Media Innovation, which is designated for media teams that adopt innovative and creative perspectives for the digital age. The emphasis is on approaches or patterns in journalism designed to meet challenges in the digital age and provide better public service.
  • Award for New Media Reporting, which aims to encourage reporting that uses multimedia or transmedia tools and techniques.

Each award will have one winner with a cash prize of US$10,000. A number of honourable mentions will also be named.

The first World Media Summit was held October 8-10 2009 in Beijing, China. Jointly initiated by 9 global media organisations and organised by Xinhua, the summit was attended by leaders of more than 170 media organisations from across the world. A second summit was held in July 2012 in Moscow, Russia.

Application Info
  • The works should have been published between January 1 2012 and December 31 2013.
  • Entries' submission deadline: 24:00 GMT, September 30 2014.
  • Winners' announcement: November 2014.

The Awards' working language is English. There are no language limitations to entries, but copies of an English translation should be attached, based on which reviews and judgment are made.

For more information and to apply online (in English and/or Chinese), click here. Click here to begin the process of applying online directly.

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Email from Patrick Mayoyo to Google Groups on September 17 2014; and WMS website, September 22 2014.