London - The 16 finalists in Guardian International Development Journalism Competition 2010 have now been announced and their entries published online.
The competition, now in its third year, is the brainchild of Marie Stopes International (MSI). It’s backed and largely funded by the Department for International Development as part of an initiative to raise awareness of development issues. GlaxoSmithKline also provides significant sponsorship.
The 16 finalists (eight professional and eight amateur journalists) will shortly be given their final assignments relating to international development issues. Each finalist will be sent on a trip to a developing country so they can experience and investigate the issues they will be writing about first hand.
In the next couple of weeks, MSI will find out which two finalists (one professional, one amateur) will be assigned to them. The other non government organsations involved in the competition who will also each be assigned two finalists are: CBM UK, Hives Save Lives Africa, Leonard Cheshire Disability, Malaria Consortium, ORBIS UK, Saferworld and Save the Children.
To read the 16 final entries to go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/journalismcompetition/finalists