Nominations open for animal journalism awards

 from the Kosciuszko National Park past times passive trapping Nominations opened upward for beast journalism awards
Yearling brumby filly Snippets, who was captured inward 2010 from the Kosciuszko National Park past times passive trapping. © Victorian Brumby Association

Prizes totalling $A15,000 are on offering inward Commonwealth of Australia for outstanding journalism that contributes to beast protection.

Nominations are immediately opened upward for the Voiceless Media Prizes.

The prizes recognise the nigh accurate as well as influential reports on the likes of manufacturing works life farming, kangaroo hunting, the alive export merchandise as well as other of import issues that touching on animals inward Australia.

Sponsored past times the Dalwood-Wylie Charitable Foundation, the prizes include $A5000 for the best impress journalism, $A5000 for the best broadcast journalism as well as $A2500 for the runner-up inward each category.

The world are invited to brand nominations. Stories tin sack live on nominated which:

  • Addresses manufacturing works life farming, alive export, nutrient labelling as well as certification, beast law, hunting of kangaroos as well as other animals, beast experimentation, animals inward amusement (zoos, circuses as well as rodeos) or animals killed for fashion (furs as well as skins); or
  • Builds world agreement of beast sentience; or
  • Examines the ethical human relationship betwixt human as well as non-human animals.

The Media Prizes volition live on judged past times Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, Professor David Weisbrot, bestselling writer Dr Jeffrey Masson as well as Voiceless Managing Directors Brian Sherman as well as Ondine Sherman.

Previous winners accept included Four Corners’ explosive investigation into alive export on ABC TV, sixty Minutes’ exposé on the manufacturing works life farmed grunter manufacture on Channel ix as well as a revealing await at beast police describe inward The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Nominations close on Oct 26 as well as the winners volition live on announced inward belatedly Nov at the 2012 Voiceless Awards.

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