Trieste, 24 July 2011 – Nationals of all 18 Central European Initiative (CEI) Member States (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine) may be nominated. The winning candidate will receive a cash prize of 5.000 EUR, offered by the CEI Secretariat, which will be officially presented on the occasion of the South East Europe Media Forum, to be held in Belgrade in November 2011.
Established by the Central European Initiative (CEI) in cooperation with the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) in 2008, the Award for Outstanding Merits in Journalism honours journalists who highly contribute to investigative reporting despite the difficult conditions under which they often have to operate.
Application deadline is 1 September 2011.
For more details (documents, contact) see: ceinet.org