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 2021-2022. The contest is open to all undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members working with students on stories. However, the first writer/author should be a student.
- 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.
- The news story has to be in English.
- It should be a written story submitted as a class assignment and/or published on the university website or on a news media website (stories published between April 1, 2021 and June 1, 2022 will be considered).
- Stories will be judged based on criteria such as originality, news values, relevance of the story idea, journalistic merit and effectiveness of multimedia elements.
- The story as well as the multimedia support should have been authored/executed by the same author/s.
For more information on how to enter and the contest rules, download file below.
Multimedia-Contest-Call-2022-REVISED-May22