2019 Human Rights Reporting Award invites journalist submissions

AMMAN — Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) has launched the fifth edition of the Human Rights Reporting Award in Jordan, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. 

The Human Rights Reporting Award aims to encourage the production of high-quality human rights journalism that has a positive impact within communities through promoting a constructive public dialogue around human rights issues, according to a JHR statement. 

Human Rights Reporting Awards will be given to the best three human rights reporting stories, and will be announced at an official ceremony on December 10, 2019, which marks Human Rights Day.

Journalists are invited to submit a story that addresses a specific human rights issue that was published in print and/or on an online media outlet. Journalists are encouraged, but not required, to include elements of data journalism, and stories must have been published in Arabic, the statement said.

The committee will consist of representatives from media and academia and will be judging the stories based on degree of difficulty in obtaining content matter effective use of storytelling techniques, including clarity and narrative and the degree of change or action created from news coverage, among other critera.

The deadline to submit the entries is November 25, 2019, according to the statement. More information about the award can be found at: http://www.jhr.ca/en/awards