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Alan Johnston, left, a BBC Middle East correspondent
who was held hostage in Gaza for almost four months
last year, was the recipient of the 2008 Herbert
Block Freedom Award. CWA|SCA Canada Director Arnold
Amber presented the honour and a cheque for $5,000
at the TNG-CWA Freedom Awards Fund banquet in May.
Anna Maria Tremonti, host of The Current on CBC Radio,
interviewed Johnston about his ordeal.
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Awards / Scholarships
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Charles B. Dale Guild Service Award
The is given annually
by TNG-CWA for outstanding service to the Guild at
the Local union level. Its purpose is to recognize and
encourage the development of local Guild leadership.
The award is a scholarship of up to $2,000 (U.S.) for a course
in trade union education "appropriate to the winner."
Who Can Be Nominated?
The Guild
Service Award is open to members who serve in an unpaid capacity
as Local officers or in other responsible Local positions.
Individuals may not nominate themselves. They must
be sponsored by their Locals and nominated by the Local executive
board or representative assembly or a general membership
meeting.
2010 Award
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Nominations Deadline: April 5
Mail nominations to:
Guild Service Award
The Newspaper Guild/CWA
501 Third St. N.W., 6th Floor
Washington DC 20001
Email nominations to:
Morton Bahr Scholarship
Created in the name of Empire State College
alumnus Morton
Bahr, this Distance Learning Scholarship assists union
members and other workers by furthering their educational
goals and enhancing educational access through distance learning.
Students can live anywhere in the world and qualify for the
scholarship, completing their studies via the Internet or
by mail.
The scholarships cover tuition and other fees toward a two-year
or four-year degree with an allowance for study materials
and books up to US$130 per course.
Who Can Apply?
Union workers, family members and/or
domestic partners interested in registering for degree studies
with Empire State College (part of the State University of
New York) may apply. All applicants will be considered, but
priority is given to members of the Communications Workers
of America.
Winners are selected by a committee comprising a representative
of CWA and Empire State College faculty and staff. Criteria
include an ability to succeed in college studies, a program
match with educational and career goals, leadership qualities,
financial need and diversity.
2010-2011 Scholarships
Application
Deadline: May 15 , 2010
Award Decisions announced: early
July for fall enrolment
How Do I Apply?
Upon request,
an application can be sent to you via email or post.
Call: 800-867-5941
Email:
Download:
Online:
David S. Barr Award
Students in North America are invited
to compete for the David S. Barr Award, which encourages
young journalists to focus on issues of social justice. The
Award is named after the late Mr. Barr, who for a quarter
of a century served as The Newspaper Guild's general counsel,
mentor, role model and institutional memory.
Who Can Apply?
The awards competition is open to
all high school students and to all part-time or full-time
post-secondary students, including those in community
colleges and in graduate programs. All entries must
be of work published or broadcast that helped to right
a wrong; corrected an injustice; or promoted justice
and fairness. All entries must be of work published
or broadcast between Jan. 1, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2009.
2010 Awards
The amount of the award is US$500 for
the high school student winner and US$1,500 for the post-secondary
student winner.
Application
Deadline: Jan. 30,
2010
Requirements
No more
than one entry per contestant is permitted. Included with
the entry should be a brief summary of the work submitted.
At least one original copy of the entry must be submitted
with three photocopies. A signed official application form
must be attached to each copy of each entry.
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Mail entries to:
David S. Barr Award
The Newspaper Guild-CWA
501 Third Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20001-2797
Joe Beirne Scholarships
The CWA Joe Beirne Foundation was established
in October 1974 by the Communications Workers of America
Executive Board to honour the name and memory of the founding
President of CWA, who served for more than 30 years.
In his capacity as the first CWA President, Joe Beirne took
great pride in the roles he played in the fields of education
and learning and other areas of social concern.
The Joe
Beirne Foundation's Board of Directors each
year approves the awarding of 15 partial college scholarships
of up to US$3,000 each. The winners, to be chosen by
lottery drawing, also receive second-year scholarships
for the same amount, contingent upon satisfactory academic
achievement.
Who Can Apply?
Eligible for the scholarships are
CWA|SCA Canada members and their spouses, children
and grandchildren, including the dependents of retired,
laid off or deceased members. Applicants must be high
school graduates or high school students who will graduate
during the year in which they apply. Undergraduate
and graduate students returning to school may also
apply.
Requirements
Application deadline: March
31, 2010
Fill out and submit:
Further
information: Visit the Member Services section
of the .
John Belcarz | Dan Zeidler Memorial Scholarships
CWA|SCA Canada has created two awards of $1,000 each to honour the lives and work of John
Belcarz and Dan
Zeidler. John, president of the Montreal Newspaper Guild, and Dan, a staff representative for the union, both firmly believed that everything should be done to help people better themselves.
Who Can Apply?
The scholarships are open to current members
of the union, their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Applicants must be enrolled or about to enter a full-time
post-secondary program.
Requirements
Applicants must include an essay of up to 1,500 words or
a video, audio or multi-media presentation up to five minutes
in length on one of four topics. Download
PDF for topics
and other details.
Application deadline: March
31, 2010
Fill out and submit:
Heywood Broun Awards
Heywood Broun was a pioneering and crusading
columnist for The Tribune and The
World in New York from
1912 until his death in 1939. He founded the American Newspaper
Guild in 1933 and served as its first president. Broun is best
remembered for his reporting on social issues and his passionate
championing of the underdog and the disadvantaged.
This annual competition is intended to
encourage and recognize individual journalistic achievement
by members of the working media, particularly if it helps
right a wrong or correct an injustice.
There is a main award of US$5,000, plus
two awards of $1,000 for entries of substantial distinction.
One of the awards of substantial distinction will be for
a broadcast (television or radio) entry.
Who Can Apply?
Journalists working on behalf of newspapers,
news services, web sites, magazines and radio and TV stations
in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico are eligible,
whether Guild members or not. Publications and other employers
as such, or entries on behalf of an entire staff of a publication
or employer, are not eligible; neither are entries written
or reported by managers. Entries may be submitted by applicants
for themselves or by others; however, entrants should note
that, in keeping with the award's emphasis on individual
achievement, the judges frown on obviously mass-produced
contest entries.
Requirements
There is no official entry form, nor is
there an entry fee. Entries must be mailed and postmarked
no later than
Jan. 29, 2010, and must have a clearly legible return
address on the outside of the package. Entries posted after Jan. 30
will be discarded on receipt. Faxed and emailed entries
will not be accepted.
Entries deadline: January
29,
2010
Details and more information:
Greg Clark Award
The Canadian Journalism Foundation is
calling for applications for its Greg Clark Award. The winner
will have the opportunity to spend a week observing an organization
related to his or her beat.
The Greg Clark Award was created in memory of one of Canada's
greatest journalists — a war correspondent, an avid outdoorsman,
a humourist, but above all, a great reporter who excelled
at storytelling.
How Do I Apply?
Your application should include a two-page
proposal outlining how you would use the opportunity and
how it would help you in your daily work. Also include two
samples of your work, a brief biography and a letter of recommendation
from a relevant employer.
Application
Deadline: March 19,
2010
Details & More Information: Call the
CJF (416-955-0394) or visit the
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CJFE Tara Singh Hayer
Memorial Award
Canadian
Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) in 1999 renamed its Canadian Press Freedom Award in
honour of Tara Singh Hayer, a Canadian journalist and editor
of the Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian Times,
who was assassinated in November 1998. His murder demonstrated
that protecting freedom of expression is a matter of concern
not just beyond our borders.
The Tara Singh Hayer Award recognizes a Canadian journalist
who, through his or her work, has made an important
contribution to reinforcing and promoting the principle
of freedom of the press in this country or elsewhere.
The award was last bestowed in 2004 when Canadian/French
journalist Guy-André Kieffer was honoured.
Nominations
Applicants must
be nominated by an organisation or individual. Self-nominations
are not accepted.
The winner of the award will be
a journalist who fits one or more of the criteria:
• has highlighted cases of media repression in
Canada or around the world;
• has chronicled attempts at or actual censorship;
• work has involved difficult-to-obtain access
to information requests;
• has taken personal risks or suffered physical
reprisals for working as a journalist;
• has overcome enormous odds simply to produce
the news.
Details
When making a nomination, please send a cover letter
outlining how the journalist or media organization
fulfils the stated criteria; biographical and professional
information on the nominee, along with samples of the
nominee's work and contact details.
Submissions in French or English may be in the form
of video tapes, audio tapes, articles or columns aired
or published between June 15, 2009, and April 30, 2010.
The award consists of a framed plaque and
cash prize of $3,000.
Submissions
Deadline: tba
Award presented: Fall 2010, at
a ceremony in Toronto.
For further information or to submit a nomination,
please
contact Julie Payne at CJFE:
555 Richmond St. West,
Suite 1101, PO Box 407,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5V 3B1
Tel: 416-515-9622
Fax: 416-515-7879
Email: jpayne@cjfe.org
Paul Kidd Courage Prize
PEN Canada is seeking nominations for
its Paul Kidd Courage Prize. It is open to Canadian journalists
and journalists working for Canadian media outlets who have
made a contribution to journalism (print or broadcast), who
have risked their careers in pursuit of a story and who take
an independent viewpoint.
The award honours
exceptional courage in the quest for freedom of expression.
Paul Kidd died in 2002, after a career as one of Canada's first
globetrotting foreign correspondents. He filed reports to Southam
News Service from more than 70 countries, braving street violence,
gunfire, terrorism, arrest at bayonet point and open threats
from political regimes infuriated by his insistence on getting
and reporting the truth.
Nominations
Nominations should be
accompanied by a cover letter explaining why the nominee
should win the prize and samples of the person’s work.
Send nominations to:
PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize,
24 Ryerson Ave., Suite 301
Toronto, Ont. M5T 2P3
Nominations close: tba
More Information: Call 416-703-8448, ext. 24. Visit PEN Canada's .
Dick Martin Scholarship Award
The Canadian Centre for Occupational
Health and Safety offers this $1,000 national award
to students enrolled in an occupational health and
safety course or program leading to an OHS certificate,
diploma or degree at an accredited college or university
in Canada. Three $1,000 scholarships are available.
The award is named for Dick Martin,
a former secretary-treasurer of the Canadian
Labour Congress who is credited with creating the national Day
of Mourning to commemorate workers who lost
their lives on the job. The Day of Mourning is now
observed internationally.
Who Can Apply?
Post-secondary students are
invited to submit a 1000-1500 word essay on a topic
that best describes their aspirations in the field
of occupational health and safety. Entries will be
judged on their knowledge of the subject matter, their
understanding of the principles and values of Dick
Martin, and their understanding of the role of CCOHS.
More information about Dick
Martin is available on the CCOHS website, as is a list of
previous
winners and their essays.
Requirements
Application
Form: Submit
online or download PDF from CCOHS website.
Submission
Deadline: January
31, 2010
Further
information: Contact the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health
and Safety at 1-800-263-8466 or e-mail scholarship@ccohs.ca.
Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism
The Kurt Schork Awards in International
Journalism recognize independent and professional reporting
that sheds new light on controversial issues. Established
in 2002, two US$5,000 prizes are awarded each year, one to
a local reporter in a developing country or nation in transition,
and the other to a freelance journalist covering international
news.
The stories can focus on conflict, human-rights concerns,
cross-border issues, or any other issue of controversy in
a particular country or region.
Underwritten by the Kurt Schork
Memorial Fund and Reuters, and administered by the
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), the prizes
were created to honor Kurt Schork, an American freelance
journalist who was killed in a military ambush while
on assignment for Reuters on May 24, 2000, in Sierra
Leone.
Who Can Apply?
Freelance Journalist: Freelance print journalists and those
contracted by news organizations are eligible. A freelance
journalist is an individual who is not employed by a news
organization. They are self-employed, providing services,
either on the basis of time or on the production of editorial
materials as defined by individual contractual arrangements,
and earn the majority of their income from journalistic activity.
Entries
The submissions
must demonstrate professionalism, meet international journalistic
standards, and provide evidence that courage and determination
played a role in generating the articles. Winners will
be chosen by an international panel of five judges.
Deadline: tba
Details and Entry Forms: Available
on the
web site.
Union Plus Scholarship Program
The Union Plus Scholarship offers US$150,000
in scholarships annually to members, their spouses and
dependents who are beginning or continuing their
post-secondary education. Awards
range from US$500 to $4,000.
Who Can Apply?
The scholarship program is open to students
attending or planning to attend a college or university,
a community college, or a technical college or trade school.
Applicants for scholarships are evaluated according to academic
ability, social awareness, financial need and appreciation
of labour.
Members of participating AFL-CIO union
members from Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
and U.S. citizens are eligible. Members do not have to purchase
any Union Plus program product or participate in any Union
Plus programs to apply for the scholarships and scholarship
awards are not based upon participation in a Union Plus
program.
Requirements
Application deadline: Jan.
30, 2010
Further
information and application forms: Visit the .
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