Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit honouring journalism excellence promoting adult literacy

Here is a great opportunity for our talented BCYCNA journalists to help raise awareness of the adult literacy issue in Canada.  Journalists can submit their work in the Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit 2009. More information is now available at http://www.abc-canada.org/en/media/journalism_award.

The Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit was developed by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1993, in honour of the late broadcaster and writer Peter Gzowski, to acknowledge the great contribution made by a Canadian journalist, in any media, in raising awareness of the adult literacy issue in this country.

The competition is open to all professional journalists working and residing in Canada. Journalists may submit their own work, or nominate the work of a fellow journalist. Entries may be of either a local or national interest, and may be based on reporting analysis, commentary, special section, feature or series.  Entries will be accepted from the following categories: newspaper (daily, community, regional or national), magazine, television news, television feature (news magazine/talk show), radio interview and Internet. Entries for the 2009 competition must have been published, broadcast or posted online between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 26, 2009.

The winner will be honoured at a special award presentation in Toronto on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. A $1,000 donation will be made, in the winning journalist’s name, to a literacy organization in their community.

For application forms, and reference to past winners, please go to: http://www.abc-canada.org/en/media/journalism_award.

For quick reference to the application form, click on the 2009 Peter Gzowski Entry Form.
For quick reference to more information on the Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit 2009, click on Peter Gzowski Literacy package.