WYRP Past Awardees
2014 Top Award to Jakarta Post [Foundation] (Indonesia) for Youth Speak Fun Day, a language festival of competitions, games and entertainment to help strenthen the English skills of 15- to 17-year-olds
2014 Silver Award 7 days (The Netherlands) for a Teenager of the Year Award that honors seven adolescents who have had an impressive accomplishment, chosing final winner through online voting.
Eligibility Criteria
Young readers under 25 years of age are eligible to apply.
Applicant can be any news publisher around the world and may submit multiple entries.
Be based on a single project or a series of related activities.
Except in the enduring excellence category, these should have occurred in the 24 months before the entry deadline. Except for the Enduring Excellence category, the prizes do not honor ongoing programmes but are directed toward projects that are new and have been carried out or re-launched within the defined period.
Be submitted as a PowerPoint presentation:
This presentation must be in English and limited to no more than 15 megabytes.
Feature a first slide that contains:
- Name of the programme
- Category of the entry (core or special categories).
- Sponsoring news publisher
- Complete address of the news publisher
- Name, e-mail, job title and phone of project director
- Name, e-mail, job title and phone of contact preparing the entry (if different)
- Circulation and frequency of the newspaper or reach of online site.
- A one-sentence description of the project
- Target of project: ages x to y (ages 25 and under should be main target)
- All filenames should include the news publisher country and name.
How to Apply?
Applicants have to register online through the website. Then submit a PowerPoint presentation (maximum size 15 megabytes) in English that describes your project and its impact.
For more information, please visit Young Readers Award.
