2012 Excellence in Anti-Corruption Reporting Media Awards

2012 Excellence in Anti-Corruption Reporting Media Awards CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS UNDP in partnership with British High Commission, Transparency International Papua New Guinea, Business Against Corruption Alliance and ABC‐NBC Media for Development Initiative, and supported by the Patron of the Awards Mr Sean Dorney, is inviting submissions for the ‘2012 Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting Media Awards’. On 31 October 2003 the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the UN Convention against Corruption which was ratified by the Government of Papua New Guinea in 2007. In 2011 the Government approved a National Anti‐Corruption Strategy which is intended to guide the nation’s efforts in these areas for the next 20 years. Corruption negatively impacts Papua New Guinea’s achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and all future work in equitable human development. As such, tackling corruption requires the strong commitment of Government, but it also requires the support of civil society, including the media, to hold the Government accountable for what it does on behalf of its citizens.

The ‘2012 Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting Media Awards’ support the media’s role as a watchdog by encouraging individual journalists in PNG to use their position in society to report, expose and combat corruption. The awards hope to expose stories that show how corruption negatively impacts on the achievement of the MDGs in PNG and stories that clearly show the impact of corruption at the grassroots and community levels.

There are four individual award categories:
 • Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting – Print
• Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting – Television
• Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting – Radio
• Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting – Citizen/Social media/Online

The award for the Excellence in Anti‐Corruption Reporting – Overall Winner category will be judged from the four winners of the individual categories. Each winner of an individual category will receive a laptop and the Overall Winner will receive an international study tour on investigative journalism

General judging criteria: 

To enter a submission for an individual award category, entrants must supply three different articles, features, new stories, broadcasts, blogs etc. that show their work on reporting and exposing corruption in PNG. Each entry is assessed against:

 • Local impact: stories that clearly show the impact of corruption at grassroots and community levels (e.g. impact of corruption on basic services such as health, education and infrastructure and the Millennium Development Goals in PNG)

• Future impact: stories that achieved results in the fight against corruption; stories that raised awareness of corruption and anticorruption measures; stories that resulted in a series and looked at the impacts of corruption over an extended period of time.

 • Content: stories that are original; stories that embrace character; stories that rise above just telling the facts.

• Journalistic merit: stories that are accurate, balanced and creative and demonstrate investigative journalism and research skills.

Rules and submission requirements: 

• Entry is open to professional journalists and members of the general public who have had their work independently published or broadcast.

• Entry is open to individuals – NOT media outlets, groups or organizations.

• Each entrant must be a citizen or permanent resident of PNG. • Entries must have been published or broadcast between 06 June 2011 and 06 September 2012.

 • Entries can be in English, Tok Pisin or Motu. • Submissions for the ‘Television’ and ‘Radio’ categories must also include a transcription of the audio.

• All submissions must be received by 5pm on Friday 14 September 2012 • Each submission must include:
Three articles/features/new stories/broadcasts/blogs that show entrant’s work on reporting and exposing corruption in PNG.


 Name of the individual award category being contested.


 Entrant’s full contact details including current mobile number and email address.

 A brief summary of the entrant’s career to date.

The submission should be sent to registry.pg@undp.org or hand‐submitted at UNDP, Deloitte Tower 14 Floor, NCD

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