ANNAPOLIS, Md., Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The TRACE Foundation, which promotes, supports and funds anti-bribery research and education, is now accepting entries for the 2019 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting.
The award recognizes reporting that uncovers business bribery or related financial crime with the goal of increasing commercial transparency. Nominees may be print, broadcast or online reporters from any country who have investigated commercial bribery schemes, business activities that create serious conflicts of interest or similar misconduct. Entries must have appeared in print or online in 2018. Multiple entries per author are permitted, as are team entries produced by groups of journalists.
"Investigative journalism is an increasingly dangerous job. Journalists who investigate corruption put their lives at risk to increase transparency and expose crimes that would otherwise go undetected. We are proud to support their critically important work through this prize," said TRACE President Alexandra Wrage.
A panel of independent judges will review the submissions and select up to two winning entries. Each winning entry will receive a cash prize of USD $10,000 and the reporter(s) will be invited to an award ceremony hosted by TRACE in summer 2019.
The 2019 judges are:
William Gumede, Associate Professor, School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Founder and Chairman of the Democracy Works Foundation.
Diana B. Henriques, Financial writer and author, formerly with The New York Times.
Rosebell Kagumire, Writer and digital communication strategist, public speaker and award-winning blogger based in Kampala, Uganda.
Peter Klein, Executive Director of the Global Reporting Centre in Vancouver, BC.
Donatella Lorch, Freelance reporter, formerly with The New York Times, NBC News and Newsweek, currently based in Ankara, Turkey.
Jorge Luis Sierra, President of the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, journalist security consultant and formerly a Knight International Journalism Fellow with the International Center for Journalists, based in Texas.
The 2018 winners were Kelly Carr and Jaimi Dowdell, freelance reporters writing for The Boston Globe, awarded for their investigation "Secrets in the Sky" and Investiga Lava Jato, a team of 20 reporters from Latin America and Africa overseen by nonprofit newsroom Convoca, awarded for their project "Investiga Lava Jato".
The Prize for Investigative Reporting is one of many TRACE Foundation initiatives developed to increase commercial transparency worldwide. For more information or to submit an entry, visit www.traceinternational.org/investigative-reporting. The closing date for entries is 31 January 2019.
For more information about TRACE, visit www.traceinternational.org.
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