Online Investigative Journalism Awards Now Open

Investigative journalists who have made innovative use of the Internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mashups, Web 2.0, etc.) in reporting are invited to submit works to the 2010 Digital Heretics Award, to be awarded at a journalism festival in Italy. Deadline is Feb. 28, 2010.

Submissions can be in the form of video, audio, text, photographs, animation or a mix of the above. Submitted works should be in English or Italian and the authors must be under the age of 35. They should have been published online between Jan. 1, 2009 and Jan. 31, 2010.

The first prize is 2,800 U.S. dollars, which will be awarded during the 2010 International Journalism Festival in Italy.

Submissions must be in Italian or English. To participate, send an email to eretici@festivaldelgiornalismo.com by Feb. 28 with the following information:

• Name and surname, date of birth, nationality, sex, academic qualifications of the author(s)
• Full postal and email address and telephone number
• URL of the reportage
• Title of the reportage and a brief summary of the work (maximum of 1,800 characters)

Each candidate can submit only one reportage.

For more information, contact eretici@festivaldelgiornalismo.com.