The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) 2009 Awards for Coverage of the United Nations and Its Agencies

The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) 2009 Awards for Coverage of the United Nations and Its Agencies

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- UNCA invites the worldwide media to submit entries for its Fourteenth Annual UNCA 2009 Awards for the best written and electronic media coverage of the United Nations, its agencies and field operations.

The prizes amount to over US $40,000 with US $10,000 each for the main categories. There are no entry fees of any kind for submissions.

The awards are open to all journalists anywhere in the world for work in print, Internet, radio or TV between 01 September, 2008 and 01 August, 2009, covering the United Nations and its agencies in whatever capacity.

The deadline for submission of entries is September 21, 2009.

The judges will look for entries with impact, insight and originality, and will take into account the courage and assiduity of the journalist. Investigative work is welcome.

Entries not in one of the official languages of the UN should have a translation into English or French.

Video entries should be in disc or VHS (preferably NTSC) format.

UNCA particularly welcomes entries from outside the USA and even more so from developing world media. A written transcript assists judging of radio and TV entries. Multiple or joint entries will be accepted. Previous winners are welcome to try again!

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will present the prizes at the UNCA Awards Dinner at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Friday, 04 December 2009.

The Awards Now Include:

1. The Prince Albert Foundation/UNCA Global Prize for coverage of Climate
Change.
2. The Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Alexander Bodini
Foundation, for written media (including online media) coverage of the
UN and its agencies and their work.
3. The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for broadcast journalism coverage of
the UN, and its agencies.

4. The United Nations Foundation Prize for any entry in any medium that
best covers the humanitarian and development aspects of the U.N. and
its agencies.

The judges will look for similar courage and qualities in entries for the UNCA Journalism Awards.

Mailing address:
FedEx, registered or couriered packages should be sent to:
UNCA Awards Committee
Mailbox 613
The Chrysler Building
132 East 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017, USA
+1 (212) 867-0001
Scanned or email entries to: unca-awards@igc.org

Any questions, please email address above or telephone Awards Chair: Ian Williams at +1 212 686 8884

UNCA Awards Committee: Ian Williams, J. Tuyet Nguyen, Gampaolo Pioli, Frank Ucciardo, Jim Wurst, Margaret Besheer and Melorine Mokri.

J. Tuyet Nguyen
UN Correspondent
German Press Agency dpa
United Nations Room 352
Tel: 212-319-6626
Fax: 212-753-6168
Email: Natuyet@aol.com

Source: The United Nations Correspondents Association

CONTACT: J. Tuyet Nguyen, UN Correspondent, German Press Agency dpa,
United Nations Room 352, +1-212-319-6626, or Fax, +1-212-753-6168,
Natuyet@aol.com

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