Minority Voices Youth Media Award

The Minority Voices Youth Media Award will be presented to one outstanding young journalist working to highlight within the European media the issues facing minority and indigenous communities in the global south. Through this award, Minority Rights Group International aims to generate interest among young and future journalists in covering minority- and development-related issues in the global South and to build bridges between the next generation of journalists and minority and indigenous communities.

Student journalists or journalists under the age of 25 are eligible to apply. Television, radio, online, and print journalists are invited to compete. In order to be eligible, the young journalists would need to be registered to study at a university in the European Union (EU), work for an EU-based media organisation, or prove that they had been resident in the EU for a period of one year prior to the closing date.

All entries need to demonstrate work in the preceding 12 months that has significantly highlighted the developmental challenges facing minorities and indigenous peoples in the global South or shown links between minority experiences within the EU and minorities and indigenous peoples and progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the global South. The entry needs to have appeared in EU media in the period April 15 2009 - April 15 2010.