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POSTED 15 June 2005
Tara Singh Hayer Award
Call for nominations
Submissions
must reach CJFE by July 31, 2005
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), through
its Press Freedom Awards, honours those dedicated and principled
journalists who often risk their lives to get the news out.
That recognition extends to Canadian journalists. In 1999,
the Canadian Press Freedom Award was re-named 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 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.
In 2003, CJFE honoured photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
Submissions can include: work that
highlights cases of media repression in another country,
chronicles attempts at or actual censorship, work involving
difficult-to-obtain access to information requests or instances
in which the journalist faced significant risks or threats,
physical or otherwise, to practise his or her profession.
Applications are invited from Canadian
journalists working for news media organizations full-,
part-time or freelance.
Submissions in French or English
may be in the form of video tapes, audio tapes, articles
or columns aired or published between July 1, 2004 and
June 30, 2005. A single piece of work may be submitted
or a series limited to four items on the same subject.
The award consists of a framed plaque and cash prize of
$3,000. It will be presented to the winner at a ceremony
in Toronto on November 1, 2005.
Guide to Submissions is published on TNG Canada's Awards & Scholarships page.
(This story first appeared on the CJFE web
site.)
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