The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) invites media organisations in the Americas to submit entries for the IAPA Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The competition is open to news articles published in 2009 in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication in any of the following languages: English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

The Grand Prize for Press Freedom will be awarded to a person or organisation who has significantly contributed to advancing the cause of the freedom of the press. In addition to the Press Freedom Prize, awards for outstanding journalism will be given in 11 categories:

• International relations
• Human Rights
• News Coverage
• Features
• In-Depth Reporting
• Photography
• Cartoons
• Infographics
• Opinion
• Newspaper in Education
• Online News Coverage

The text content should be prepared in MS Word format and the images of the pages on which the material was published should be in PDF, JPG, or TIFF format.

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Click here for information about previous winners.

IAPA website, December 7 2009.