Cafébabel Greece: Investigative Journalist Award, 2015

Based on the initiative of cafébabel Greece, the investigative journalism competition for young people – 18-30 years old – will be running until the March 20th 2015. The competition is organised in partnership with the not-for-profit informatics organization SciFY, the Greek National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos“ and the online journalists’ social network oikomedia.com.

Participants are allowed to carry out journalistic research on any of the fields mentioned below, concerning citizens who live in Greece and events that have taken, take or will take place in Greek reality within its geographical territory. The central elements of the journalistic research shall be the active civic and political participation, the public interest, the supervision of the work and the decisions of Greek public authorities, the action of civil society, the action of private and public legal persons in Greece, as well as the impact all these activities have on society as a whole or on economy.

Research can deal with any of the following fields, either alone or in combination: society, politics, economy or/and environment.

Prize
The Investigative Journalism contest has the following prizes:
•A cash prize of EUR 2.000 for the best journalistic research;
•A software tools prize for data journalism that will be announced with the hackathon.

Further details:
http://www.mladiinfo.eu