Deadline: 12 October 2012
Journalists! Have you written a health article? Then apply for the SLMA Awards for Health Journalism.
The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) is pleased to invite submissions from Health Journalists for the following awards:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: office@slma.lk
For submissions: Honorary Secretary, Sri Lanka Medical Association, 6 Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7
Website: http://www.slma.lk/
Journalists! Have you written a health article? Then apply for the SLMA Awards for Health Journalism.
The Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA) is pleased to invite submissions from Health Journalists for the following awards:
- Award for the best feature article of the year
- Award for the best feature article of the year on nutrition
- The purpose of these annual awards is to recognize relevance, factual correctness, and quality in journalism with regard to health issues.
- The scheme is open to journalists, including free-lance journalis, from newspapers and health magazines.
- The maximum number of times an award is awarded to a single individual is three times.
- Medical doctors registered with the Sri Lanka Medical Council are NOT eligible for these awards.
- Separate awards would be made for Sinhala, Tamil and English articles.
- Articles published from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012 would be considered.
- Applicants should apply personally with the endorsement of the relevant institution the applicant is working for, to certify that the applicant is a professional journalist (either full time/ part time/free-lance)
- An applicant can submit a maximum of three (3) articles.
- The applicant and the applicant’s institution should certify that the article/s is the applicants own work published during the period 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012.
- Each article should be submitted in triplicate.
- Submissions will be received up to 3.00 pm on Friday, 12 October 2012.
- Submissions should be sent by registered post to reach the Honorary Secretary, Sri Lanka Medical Association, 6 Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7.
- The winners would be selected by an independent panel of judges consisting of eminent health and media
- personnel.
- The awards will be made during the inauguration of the Foundation Sessions of the SLMA on 9 November 2012.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: office@slma.lk
For submissions: Honorary Secretary, Sri Lanka Medical Association, 6 Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7
Website: http://www.slma.lk/
