2011-2012 AEJMC—ICD
STUDENT INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIANEWS STORY CONTEST

• Postmark Deadline: April 6, 2012
• Click Here to Download Entry Form

The International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC, announces its student contest in multimedia news story writing for the year 2010-2011. The contest is open to all undergraduate students.

Entries must be nonfiction, journalistic stories with multimedia support on a topic related to an international issue. The news story should have an international angle on a local story or it may be an international story with a local angle. It should be a story submitted as a class assignment and/or published on the university Web site or on a news media Web site (stories published between April 2, 2011 and April 6, 2012 will be considered).

Stories will be judged based on criteria such as originality, relevance of the storyidea, journalistic merit and multimedia support.

Rules

1. Students may enter one multimedia news story.
2. All elements of the multimedia news story (defined as a journalistic, written, online story supported by multimedia elements such as Flash, photography, audio and/or video) should be authored/executed by the same student.
3. The completed entry form (one per entry) must be signed by a faculty member attesting to the originality of the multimedia news story and the accuracy of the information provided. The faculty member will have to attest that the story is posted or had earlier been posted on a Web site and provide the URL.
4. Submit a copy of the story and mention the URL or send a disk with the multimedia elements and send this along with the completed entry form via regular mail.
   

Awards
Cash awards of $100, $75 and $50 will be given to the top three entries. In addition, the winners will receive certificates.

Send entry and completed form to:
ICD-Student Multimedia News Story Contest
Dr. Sandy Rao
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, 102, Old Main
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666
Tel: 512-245-2656/3790, Email: sr02@txstate.edu

Postmark Deadline: April 6, 2012