YouTube Pulitzer social media prize

September 25th, 2008 by Andy Merchant

Just wanted to share a great YouTube social media opportunity/competition with you for young and aspiring journalists

A few years ago, perhaps our own Tim Greenhalgh a former Times journalist, or our own Liberate Media director Wendy McAuliffe a former NMA technology editor could have had a shot at this.

The opportunity is a YouTube contest called Project:Report in conjunction with Sony VAIO, Intel and Pulitzer Center, and it’s intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

The competition is split over three rounds, with an assignment in each. Winners of each round will receive technology prizes from Sony VAIO & Intel, and the grand prize winner will be granted a $10,000 journalism fellowship with the Pulitzer Centre to report on a story abroad. A great prize!

The site also offers some tips on how to produce the video, with lots of product placement courtesy of Sony - you gotta get something back for offering the prizes!

      

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