The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism invites you to submit nominations for the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, the oldest international awards in journalism. Since their inception in 1938, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes have recognized distinguished public service in journalism that has enhanced sympathetic understanding among the peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Founded by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Cabot Prizes are awarded each fall to three or four journalists in the Western Hemisphere who, through their sustained and distinguished body of work, have contributed to Inter-America understanding. Occasionally the award is given to an organization that has made a similar contribution.

Who is eligible?

-- Any journalist and/or news executive who works for any news organization based in the Western Hemisphere or any press association, news service or syndicate that serves such an organization;

-- Other individuals, including freelance journalists, with a long record of reporting on the region;

-- All media, including Internet publications.

Entries will be judged by a Cabot Prize Board comprising comprised of journalists and educators concerned with hemisphere affairs, headed by the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. The prizes are awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University on the recommendation of the dean. Winners are announced in July and are honored at a ceremony held in New York each year in the fall. The awards consist of a Cabot medal and a $5,000 honorarium.

Deadline: February 15, 2008 (must arrive by this date; not postmark deadline.)

For more information in English, Portuguese or Spanish and nomination forms: www.jrn.columbia.edu/cabot

 
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