YouTube and Pulitzer team up for contest
ShareThisCitizen journalists around the world are being given the chance to strut their journalistic stuff online, with Project: Report, a journalism contest that YouTube and the Pulitzer Center have cooked up.
According to the Project: Report site, the contest is "intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told."
The contest has three stages, each with a different reporting assignment. Prizes for each stage will be tech goodies from Sony and the ultimate winner will get a $10,000 journalism fellowship with the Pulitzer Center to report on a story abroad.
The excellent Mediashift blog has a detailed post on Project: Report that includes all the specifics about the contest. Mediashift associate editor Mike Rosen-Molina writes:
"It’s an unmistakable sign that the site is growing up, struggling to become something more than a repository of funny videos of cats falling off of things while still maintaining the community vibe that’s made it so popular. Project: Report aims to motivate people outside the established news media — the ordinary people that make up the bulk of YouTube viewers — to take up reporting. The contest is open only to non-professional journalists; even frequent freelancers are excluded under the rules, although journalism students are encouraged to compete. The idea of using a payment incentive to encourage quality reporting may mean that YouTube soon won’t just have an army of citizen journalists but an army of quality citizen journalists (or semi-pro journalists), interested in telling stories rather than just passing along comic moments."
For the first assignment reporters are asked to profile a person in their own community that would make a compelling story. The submission deadline is Oct. 5.
According to the Project: Report site, the contest is "intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told."
The contest has three stages, each with a different reporting assignment. Prizes for each stage will be tech goodies from Sony and the ultimate winner will get a $10,000 journalism fellowship with the Pulitzer Center to report on a story abroad.
The excellent Mediashift blog has a detailed post on Project: Report that includes all the specifics about the contest. Mediashift associate editor Mike Rosen-Molina writes:
"It’s an unmistakable sign that the site is growing up, struggling to become something more than a repository of funny videos of cats falling off of things while still maintaining the community vibe that’s made it so popular. Project: Report aims to motivate people outside the established news media — the ordinary people that make up the bulk of YouTube viewers — to take up reporting. The contest is open only to non-professional journalists; even frequent freelancers are excluded under the rules, although journalism students are encouraged to compete. The idea of using a payment incentive to encourage quality reporting may mean that YouTube soon won’t just have an army of citizen journalists but an army of quality citizen journalists (or semi-pro journalists), interested in telling stories rather than just passing along comic moments."
For the first assignment reporters are asked to profile a person in their own community that would make a compelling story. The submission deadline is Oct. 5.
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