Flamingo Awards for Business and Financial Journalism 2014

Applicants are advised to meet the following criteria:

• Applicants must be fully paid up members of the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ).
• Applicants can only enter a maximum of three categories. Each article shall only be submitted once. In instances where more than three entries are submitted, only the first three will be considered. In instances where a piece is submitted more than once it will only be considered for the first category it was entered. There is a wide selection of categories, so select the category most relevant to your story.
• Applicants are strictly limited to a maximum of TWO different articles in each category of the competition.
• Submitted pieces should be a feature or series of related features
  delivered on any media platform (print, broadcast, online). Features should
  NOT be more than 1,300 words or more than 20 minutes of air time.
• Entries must be accompanied with a brief synopsis of not more than 300 words describing the article.
• Submission details to be provided for each piece as follows: Titles of Article(s);Publication(s)/Programme(s); Date of Publication/broadcast; and Medium of Publication or Broadcast.
• Seven copies of each category must be presented.
• The competition will be judged by a panel of distinguished, independent jury with appropriate knowledge and experience of journalistic practices.
• The jury reserves the right to transfer entries for consideration in other categories at their discretion.
• The jury upholds the integrity and reputation of the Awards and reserves the right to disqualify any piece of work and/or finalist if, in the jury’s opinion, there exists reasonable doubt about the authenticity and/or accuracy of the submitted entry and/or the integrity of the finalists.
• The decision of the jury is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Click here to download the submission form in PDF format.