12 December 2000
IAPA INVITES NOMINATIONS FOR JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) invites journalists and print media in the Western Hemisphere to submit entries for its 2001 IAPA Awards, given in recognition of excellence in journalism in various categories. Each year, IAPA awards certificates, plaques and monetary grants for excellence in the areas of features, opinion, investigative reporting, human rights, service to the community, inter-American relations, news coverage, the newspaper in education, infographics, news photography and cartoons. Entries of work in any of the three official IAPA languages - English, Spanish and Portuguese - and published in 2000 are eligible. The deadline is 1 February 2001 and winners will be chosen in March 2001 and announced publicly in August. The awards will be presented during the IAPA 57th General Assembly in Washington DC in October 2001. IAPA also awards a Grand Prize for Press Freedom for outstanding work by one or more persons in the Americas in defence of freedom of the press. Nominations for this award may be submitted up until IAPA's Midyear Meeting 16-20 March 2001, in Fortaleza, Brazil. For further details about these awards, please contact IAPA, Jules Dubois Building 1801 S.W. 3rd Avenue, 8th Floor, Miami, FL 33129, tel: +1 305 634 465, fax: +1 305 635 2272, e-mail:
info@sipiapa.org or visit their website at: http://www.sipiapa.org.">#">http://www.sipiapa.org.
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