Global: China Environmental Journalism Prize launched

In December 2009 the British newspaper The Guardian, China Dialogue, the billingual environmental website and the School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University jointly established the China Environmental Journalism Prize to recognize the best Chinese reporting on environment and climate change.

The China Environmental Journalism Prize will award 3 prizes, each worth 8,000 RMB, to honour the best work submitted to the judges and to encourage future achievement in environmental reporting.  

Articles and reports published in print and online media between November 1 2008 and November 30 2009. The results will be announced in early 2010. Reports may be submitted by publishers and by individual journalists. Please submit entries in digital files with its online link to [email][email protected] The deadline for entries is December 31, 2009. 

Entries should be supported by a statement about the importance of the subject, the level of professional achievement in investigation and in writing as well as the impact of the report on publication. The Guardian is a leading British newspaper with a worldwide reputation; chinadialogue is the world’s first bilingual Chinese English website devoted to environmental reporting. At a moment when the environment and climate change pose great challenges to the human race, the Guardian, chinadialogue and Wuhan University  have come together to establish the China Environmental Journalism Prize to reward the outstanding contribution made by Chinese journalists to the understanding of these challenges, and to encourage  greater excellence in the future.