The SABC-Highway Africa New Media Awards aims to highlight the role that digital technologies play in journalism and the media in Africa and rewards pioneering, innovative and creative use of technology in doing journalism that serves Africa and its citizens.
Nominations are open in three categories:In partnership with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) five new categories have been added to the Highway Africa-OSIWA ICT Journalism Awards. The awards aims to encourage media professionals to produce well-researched and informed stories on ICT usage and policies and encourage innovative use of new media in journalism in Africa.
The categories are:
Entries in these categories are restricted to entries from West Africa (both Anglophone and Francophone).
The judges will consider the use of new media technologies to:
Technical requirements for all entries:
Submissions must be made to copied to .
The closing date for the nominations is 21 August 2009, 4:30pm Pretoria time. Winners will be announced at the SABC-Highway Africa Awards ceremony on the evening of Tuesday, 8 September 2009.
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