Vickie Remoe Prize for Journalism and New Media

 
 

Prizes in Journalism and New Media 2022 - 2023

The Vickie Remoe Prize highlights emerging journalists and new media content creators for excellence, originality, and creativity. The Vickie Remoe Prize Board selects winners. Winners will be announced every year in April. 

The following awards will be made annually in Journalism and New Media. The four categories include news writing, photography, documentary video, and content creation. In each category the number of prizes will be split between male (s) and female (s) applicants. If no man or woman submits a finalist application in one or more categories, the prize will roll over to the next year. The maximum prize amount to be awarded for 2022-2023 is nLe. 200,000.

Eligibility

All applicants must be residents of Sierra Leone, and hold Sierra Leonean citizenship. Candidates applying for the news writing prize must have no more than five years of experience as a practitioner. All other categories including photojournalism, film, and content creation are excluded. None news print candidates can apply no matter their years of experience.

There is no age limit for participation. Women and People Living With disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Near and extended family members of Vickie Remoe are not ineligible. Vickie Remoe & Company staff and their family are also ineligible.

 

The Vickie Remoe Prize for News Writing

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Awarded to a Sierra Leonean print journalist for an outstanding example of local or national news reporting, investigative reporting, explanatory reporting, or feature reporting that demonstrates originality, lucid writing, clear presentation, and community connection. Award for NSL 10,000.  Prizes Available (4). 

 

The Vickie Remoe Prize for Photojournalism

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Awarded to a Sierra Leonean photographer for a distinguished example of breaking news, documentary, and feature photography which may consist of a set of photographs not to exceed 8 images. The submitted pictures may depict one or multiple subjects. Do not change or manipulate the photos. Manipulation of images includes but is not limited to altering the colors (hue, saturation, tone), smoothness, or adding sharpness. Do not do anything to the images that will distort the original image. You may crop, add light, reduce light and make minimal edits. Award for NSL 20,000. Prizes Available (2).

 

The Vickie Remoe Prize for Film 

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Awarded to Sierra Leonean videographers for an outstanding example of short film (fiction) or documentary videography. The submitted video may be 45 mins or less. Award for NSL 30,000. (2) Prizes available.

 

The Vickie Remoe Prize for Content Creation

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Awarded to a Sierra Leonean content creator or creative entrepreneur for an outstanding example of digital media including podcasts, vlogs, blogs, and reels or short videos. Award for NSL 20,000. Prizes Available (2). For the content creator’s prize we are looking for creativity, authenticity, consistency, and impact.