New award for Indigenous journalists

The Canadian Association of Journalists and JHR are pleased to announce a new journalism award: the JHR / CAJ Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award.

This new award will join the 14 other categories within the annual CAJ Awards program starting this year. Entries for the 2017 program will open in December, with an entry deadline of Jan. 15, 2018.

Judges will select between one and five finalists and the recipient will be announced at the CAJ’s 40th anniversary conference, scheduled for May 4-5, 2018, in Toronto. The recipient will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
You can read more about the award here.