The Times, La Stampa, DWDL.de and El Pais, are the media partners that will publish the five winning essays on the topic “Journalism in the digital era”
The winning essays will be published as an eBook on Kindle Store. Amazon will also award five university students with a trip to Perugia to take part in the International Journalism Festival
2015 UK winner Rebecca Sian Wyde with Mario Calabresi, Director of Italian newspaper la Repubblica, on the panel discussion at last year’s International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy
Luxemburg, March 1, 2015 – For the second year Amazon is pleased to launch the International Journalism Festival Scholarship Writing Contest. University students from across Europe, aged 18-25, are challenged to write an essay of 1,000 words or less about the topic “Journalism in the digital era”.
The five winning students will have their essays published by The Times, La Stampa, DWDL.de and El Pais, during the week of the festival, and receive reimbursement of full airfare and lodging accommodations from Amazon so they may attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia (April 6 - 10).
The deadline for submissions is 23.59 GMT Sunday 6 March, 2016. The essays will be judged based on their relevance to the subject, on their originality, writing style, innovative ideas and on how engaging they are. The winning essays will be published in an eBook on Kindle Store. To read last year’s essays visit: www.amazon.com/IJFWinningEssays15.
Emma Tucker, Deputy Editor of The Times, said: “The Times is delighted to support young journalists in Europe. Our newsrooms have been transformed through digital innovation and we welcome new ideas from future journalists through this fantastic European competition.”
"We are pleased that Amazon is for the third consecutive year the main sponsor of the International Journalism Festival," said Arianna Ciccone, who co-founded the IJF with Christopher Potter in 2006. "Amazon has played a crucial role in the digital revolution by spreading digital content. The second edition of the scholarship, created by Amazon and IJF with the support of relevant newspapers from all over Europe, will focus on the relationship between journalism and the opportunities provided by digital tools and we are glad that hundreds of European students will have the opportunity to meet this challenge and therefore contribute new, original content to the debate, which will characterize the 10th edition of the Festival".
"We are very pleased to bring this scholarship to the International Journalism Festival for the second consecutive year: it allows students from Europe to be part of this discussion, share their ideas on the future of journalism, and maybe become our next generation of leading journalists" said Russ Grandinetti, Senior VP Kindle. “We are also excited to once again sponsor the International Journalism Festival, which is a great forum for sharing ideas and discovering new ways that we as readers will consume news, insights and opinions in the future.”
Students can submit their entry for the International Journalism Festival Scholarship filling the form in the dedicated IJF scholarship webpages. Simply upload your essay and fill the registration form on the page www.amazon.co.uk/ijf-scholarship. Deadline for submission is 23.59 Sunday 6 March, 2016. Winners will be announced in March. For more information and a complete set of rules, visit www.amazon.co.uk/ijf-scholarship.
Amazon is sponsoring the festival for the third consecutive year. The 10th annual festival – the largest media event in Europe featuring dozens of daily sessions and hundreds of speakers – will be held from April 6-10 in Perugia, Italy. Amazon and IJF both believe in the foremost importance of readers and in helping content creators, including journalists and authors, to connect with even more readers and in new and different ways.
Thanks to the support of Amazon, the festival will strengthen its role as a five-day full-immersion think-tank where journalists can exchange opinions with readers and/or other journalists on the implications of the profound changes that have been taking place in the world of news and knowledge (newspapers, books), which has transformed almost overnight from a static into a free-flowing environment, into a new world offering seemingly unlimited possibilities.
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