Call for Entries: Nat Nakasa Awards 2024

Call for Entries: Nat Nakasa Awards 2024

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) is now accepting nominations for the Nat Nakasa Awards for Courageous Journalism, focusing on stories published in print or online or broadcast between June 2023 and June 2024:

Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity
Nat Nakasa Award for Community Media

Nat Nakasa was a prominent journalist and writer who died in exile.

This annual award recognises any media practitioner journalist or editor — who has:

Showed integrity and reported fearlessly.

Displayed a commitment to serving the people of South Africa despite insurmountable obstacles.

Resisted any censorship.

Showed courage in making information available to the South African public. Any combination of the above.

The Award is open to all journalists serving all media platforms from a community / national newspaper, magazine, or an electronic medium (including online publishers).

Nominations of deserving candidates/journalists can be done by members of the public, Editors, fellow journalists, and or their colleagues. Journalists can nominate themselves.

Previous winners of this award are, however, not eligible for entry.

Please find more information here: https://sanef.org.za/call-for-entries-nat-nakasa-awards-for-courageous-journalism-2024/