Free entry for freelancers and photojournalists in Amnesty Media Awards

A limited number of freelancers will be able to enter the Amnesty Media Awards free of charge.

Amnesty International's annual media awards, now open for entry, have set up an entry fee sponsorship fund "to support a limited number of submissions" from freelance journalists and filmmakers, as well as small digital and broadcast outlets.
 
Applicants must state why they think they are eligible for the fee waiver.

Photojournalism entries are also free of charge, across the board. For larger organisations, entry costs £130 per submission except to the nation and regions category, which costs £50.

The awards seek to celebrate the best in human rights reporting across photojournalism, broadcast, print and digital.

Winners in the 2009 awards included Julian Assange from Wikileaks.org for work on extra judicial killings and disappearances in Kenya, and the Guardian's Ian Cobain for his investigation of MI5 and the torture chambers of Pakistan.

For the 2010 awards, news organisations can submit pieces of journalism across ten categories: Digital; Television News; Television documentary and docudrama; Radio; International TV and Radio; Nations and Regions; National newspapers; Periodicals (two awards); Photojournalism and the Gaby Rado Memorial Award.

Entries must have been published or broadcast for the first time in the UK between 3 March 2009 and 28 February 2010.

• Guidelines and the entry form can be found at this link.

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