Do you want to meet exciting and influential people or just have a good night at a live venue and write about it?
Do You Like Writing, Analysing, and Investigating Things?
In October 2016, we will celebrate the first Young Art Journalism Awards (YAJA).
Open to all students and fresh graduates with an interest in arts and journalism, the award is promoted through the Art News Portal - a free, crowd sourced news feed.
Click to view: YAJA - Young Art Journalism Awards - Promo Clip
Why Enter?
In discussions with students enrolled in Arts & Humanities, as well as with university professionals in Work Integrated Learning, we’ve learned that work experience opportunities are extremely hard to find. But starting your career with academic results only and no relevant work experience is almost impossible.
Also, the media landscape is changing dramatically. Where newspapers, radio and TV offered employment opportunities in the past, today more and more Journalists and Media & Communication Experts are required to work independently. How can you gain a reputation without the backing of an impressive employer?
Entering the YAJA, you receive a great opportunity to gain work experience while you study. Creating a compelling piece of Arts Journalism you are also in the competition to win the awards. Even if you don’t win, you’ve shown leadership in preparing for your professional career. Adding this experience to your skills portfolio will - no doubt - impress future employers.
Benefits
YAJA is a great way to increase awareness and to showcase your talent.
- Select from open media opportunities
- Receive industry mentoring and experience
- Meet exciting and influential people
- Networking opportunities
- Reach an established audience
- Your article will be published:
- WEB: ArtNewsPortal.com and ArtNewsPortal.com/YAJA/entries
- SOCIAL: all Art News Portal social channels
- eDM: Art News Portal fortnightly eNewsletter
- PRINT: YAJA Annual Booklet
- Discover your creativity
- Industry and Awards recognition
- Opportunity to receive donations from our sponsors
Your entry will be published on ArtNewsPortal.com, including social channels and eNewsletter.
Prizes (Working on it ;-)
- VIP Tour @ SBS Radio in Melbourne
- 5 * $100 equipment hire vouchers donated by michaels.com.au
How to Enter
- Sign up at www.artnewsportal.com.au/join
- You can submit an existing or already published article,
- write a new article (choose your own topic)
- or enquire for a media opportunity at www.artnewsportal.com/YAJA/enquriy.
- Entries must be submitted using the online form www.artnewsportal.com/login.
Media opportunities
Get online Journalistic opportunities, relevant work experience and recognition now!
Express your interest or check our Facebook Group YAJA TALK for upcoming media opportunities.
Requirements and Quality
Entries must be in English and art, design or culture related and must contain:
- Author Name / Student Group Name
- Student ID
- University Name
- Ideally a short video clip (max 5 min, HD, can be filmed with Phone or GoPro) (Not a must have!)
- Audio file can be submitted as well
- One article related image (min 1000px wide)
- Catchy headline
- Teaser text
- Min 300 to Max 1000 words of copy
- Links to resources: Web, social, clips
- #/@ tags
2016 Awards Timeline
- JANUARY Awards submissions entries open
- SEPTEMBER Award submission / entries closed
- SEPTEMBER Nominations Announced
- OCTOBER Judging
- END OCTOBER Presentation 2016 Winners announced
- (NOVEMBER 2017 Entries Open)
