• CNN's fifth Young Journalist Award adds categories

    Submitted by ITV Production on Aug 22, 2007
    indiantelevision.com Team

    NEW DELHI: CNN has announced the launch of the 5th edition of the Young Journalist Award (CNN YJA), with two new categories for photojournalists and journalists without an age bar, along with those defined as YJs, aspiring journalists and citizens journalists.

    CNN Delhi Bureau chief Phillip Turner, who made the announcement here today, said that from this year, apart from the training facilities, certificates and prizes, winning candidates would be given laptops and digital SLR cameras to aid their work.

    Turner said, "As a journalist myself, I am delighted to be associated with awards that honour responsible and quality journalism.

    "While the CNN YJA is an attempt at nurturing promising journalistic potential, the CNN Journalist Award salutes the best of insightful Indian and Pakistani journalists and their efforts in voicing often unpopular issues and concerns, issues that often require great courage."

    Launched in India in 2003, CNN YJA recognises and encourages quality journalism among young media professionals in India and Pakistan.

    Turner added, "This year, we have also introduced the CNN Photo Journalist Award to recognise the rich tradition and contribution the photojournalists have made to this industry in India and Pakistan.

    "With the addition of these new categories, CNN has reinforced its commitment to recognize and honour highest standards of journalism."

    The CNN Journalist Award is being introduced to celebrate the 60th year of independence of India and Pakistan, and will seek to honour journalism that reflects the social and political realities of India and Pakistan.

    It is open to all Indian and Pakistani journalists irrespective of age, and nominations are accepted from print / online and television journalists covering the broader and deeper issues in Indian or Pakistani society, with a focus on factors of social development.

    The 2007 Awards will continue with the CNN Aspiring Journalist Award (CNN AJA) and the CNN Citizen Journalist Award (CNN CJA), introduced in 2006.

    The former is targetted at journalism students, while the latter will pay tribute to ?citizen journalists? whose compelling submissions aid the newsgathering process.

    Turner said that CNN IBN would host the citizen journalists, and Suhasini Haider added that those citizens whose journalistic work has been telecast in CNN IBN between 1 January and 30 September would be eligible as candidates

    Haider said that CNN IBN?s experience with citizen journalists has led to a situation in which no major national or local event, whether it be devastating floods or bomb blasts, now goes without inputs from volunteer citizen journalists and thousands of reports, still-picture and video clips hit the CNN IBN office each year.

    Haidar added, "We are delighted to be involved with the CNN Citizen Journalist Award. From the cities to the countries remote corners, we are very proud that the Citizen Journalism initiative we pioneered in India has brought in such a response.

    "Our viewers have become a real resource, pitching in with video, photographs and reports on breaking news stories, bringing out the situation on the ground even before our own correspondents can get there.

    "Citizen Journalism has also raised civic issues in many of our cities that would have escaped national attention otherwise."

    CNN has invited entries from different media categories such as print, online, photographic and television.

    All entries to be eligible for the award (with the exception of entries from journalism students) should be published or aired between 1 January and 30 September.

    Entrants to the CNN AJA (Aspiring Journalists Award) must submit an essay in 1000 words on the topic, "Has the media broadened its reach only to narrow its focus?"

    The short-listed participants in television or print categories would then be invited to New Delhi to participate in an on-the-spot contest, which will determine the winners for the category.

    The deadline for entries is 12 October. Judging of the entries will take place in November by a panel, Turner said, adding that winners will be announced at a ceremony in New Delhi in December.

    Winners of the CNN Young Journalist Award will win an all-expense paid trip to News Xchange Conference 2008, an internationally recognized networking forum for broadcasters and media professionals across the globe.

    Complete details of the awards, categories and nomination process are available at www.cnnasiapacific.com/yja.

    CNN-IBN, Outlook and ITC-Welcomgroup have associated themselves with CNN YJA 2007.

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  • CNN marks 10th anniversary Hong Kong handover

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 25, 2007
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    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN marked the tenth anniversary of the handover of power in Hong Kong with live reports, special features, profiles of ordinary Hong Kong people and a dedicated website featuring free archive footage from 1997. Anchor Andrew Stevens leads the network?s coverage and also looks back to reporting as he watched the PLA roll into the city ten years ago. Special reports air from 28 June with dedicated coverage airing throughout the day on 1 July.

    CNN is to report live from across Hong Kong and feature the official dinner with Chinese President Hu and Hong Kong CEO Donald Tsang, their flag raising ceremony and the harbour firework spectacular on 1 July that marks the anniversary.

    Online at www.cnn.com/hongkong features free video of CNN?s coverage from 1997, excerpts from Talk Asia with Donald Tsang and Andrew Lau, galleries of Hong Kong people and sights and in-depth articles looking at challenges the city faces. The site also asks people around the world to submit their own thoughts on the anniversary through email, mobile images and film via CNN?s unique ?I-Report? service.

    Special packages include Eunice Yoon speaking to a family who left Hong Kong for Canada, worried at what Chinese rule may mean. Years later however, they are back and thriving in the city?s vibrant economy.

    Andrew Stevens profiles taxi driver Eddie Lai who longs for the days when the British ruled Hong Kong. Ten years on, Lai says life for your average Hong Kong resident is getting worse. While the city?s wealthy are making even more, Lai?s average monthly income is now almost half what it was before the handover.

    Andrew also interviews outspoken media mogul Jimmy Lai. He has established Hong Kong?s most popular newspaper and weekly magazine although his publications have been fearless and fiercely critical of Hong Kong and Beijing?s leadership. He has openly encouraged the Hong Kong population to take to the streets and protest, but importantly, he is still allowed to say and publish these ideas.

     
       
  • Social entrepreneur voices on CNN in special series

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 12, 2007
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: On Sunday June 24, CNN will telecast its special series, ?Principal Voices on Social Entrepreneurs? which will celebrate the contemporary entrepreneural spirit, reflecting social change.

    Principal Voices looks at 3 social entrepreneurs leading from the front: Social activist Kailash Satyarthi, who is using the power of the market to end child labour and slavery in South Asia; businessman Rory Stear who is using his entrepreneurial onus to empower the continent of Africa; and professor Rick Aubry from Stanford Business School who?s spent 20 years tackling homelessness in the San Francisco Bay area.

    The series will reflect the changing patterns in creating sustainable support and growth for the developing world. Hard nose commerce is being hailed as the new way forward in new age philanthropy.

    Together they will demonstrate how business decisions don?t have to be just about financial profits for shareholders but can also make huge social improvements for their stakeholders.

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