Named in honour of the late American war correspondent, the Awards recognise the courageous work of freelance journalists, local reporters and
news fixers from .
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The only international recognition of their type for print journalists, the awards are split into three categories:
Freelance Journalist Award: recognising journalists who travel to the world’s conflict zones, usually at great personal risk, to witness and report on the impact and consequences of these events.
Local Reporter Award: recognising the often-overlooked work of journalists in developing nations (or countries in transition) who write about events in their homeland.
News Fixer Award: recognising local journalists and/or experts, hired by a visiting foreign reporter or news organisation, whose guidance and local knowledge materially benefited the content, impact and reach of the stories submitted.
Since its inception in 2002, the
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund has sought to support those journalists Kurt most admired, the freelancers and local reporters whose work is often poorly paid, mostly unsung and all too often fraught with danger.
Today, the three annual awards, for freelance and local journalism and, since 2017, for newsfixers, are recognized worldwide as a mark of excellence and have an established track record for brave reporting on conflict, corruption and injustice.
The 20th annual call for awards is therefore now split into three categories:
a
Local Reporter award that recognizes the often over-looked work of journalists in developing nations or countries in transition who write about events in their homeland.