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2011 Grantham Prize | Eligibility Requirements|

2011 Grantham Prize

• Metcalf Institute will announce deadlines for the 2011 Grantham Prize in October 2010.
• Please review the Entry Submission Checklist for a summary of entry requirements.
  

The purpose of the Prize is to encourage outstanding coverage of the environment, to recognize reporting that has the potential to bring about constructive change, and to broadly disseminate the Prize-winning story to increase public awareness and understanding of environmental and natural resource issues. Among the criteria jurors will consider are the significance of the subject matter, quality and originality of the journalism, the potential to effect constructive change, and the effort involved in telling the story.

The Grantham Prize is open to works of non-fiction journalism. Entry submissions become the property of the Metcalf Institute and of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.

The winning entry and top finalists will be publicly announced within a reasonable time of the decision of the prize jurors, whose determinations will be final. Winners shall agree to attend the Grantham Prize awards ceremony and seminar, and to assist with other outreach activities (including at least 15 radio and/or television interviews to be arranged by Metcalf Institute) to publicize the prize-winning work.

A maximum of two entries may be submitted in any one prize year by the same journalist, either as an individual or as part of a team. Book publishers submitting prize entries on behalf of authors may submit no more than three entries in any single prize year for work published during the previous calendar year. Only the first three entries officially received from or published by an individual book publisher, as determined by postal stamp date and time, will be considered in a single prize year.

An entry may be nominated for a Grantham Prize by an unaffiliated person or organization with knowledge, approval and permission of the author(s) and any and all other contributors.

Eligibility Requirements

An entry submitted for consideration for The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment must:

• address subjects focused principally on the environment and natural resources;
• be a work of nonfiction reporting;
• have been printed, aired (tv or radio), or posted as online content in English and made available to a general audience in the U.S. or Canada during the previous January 1 through December 31 calendar year;
• be submitted in the name of an individual or, in the case of team reporting, a team of individuals, and not on behalf of an organization;
• if a series, have been labeled as such in the initial installment. Whole magazine entries can only be considered if all articles in the edition relate to a specific topic or issue which is clearly identified on the cover. A regular column or a collection of editorials by an individual may be submitted as a single entry so long as the pieces all focus on environmental issues and meet the calendar-year requirements. No more than 10 individual columns/editorials may be submitted within a single entry.
• if a "beat reporting" entry, consist of up to 10 individual stories.  An individual journalist or a team of journalists may submit a single entry representing a body of work on environmental/natural resource issues, or ongoing coverage of a specific issue that developed as a continuing story but could not reasonably have been anticipated from the start to comprise a single series.