Nominate journos for Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity

This annual award recognises any media practitioner - journalist, editor, manager or owner - who has:

• Shown integrity and reported fearlessly;
• Displayed a commitment to serve the people of South Africa;
• Tenaciously striven to maintain a publication or other medium despite insurmountable obstacles;
• Resisted any censorship;
• Shown courage in making information available to the SA public;
• Any combination of the above

Named for Nat Nakasa, a prominent journalist and writer who died in exile, the competition is run by the Print Media SA Awards Committee, SANEF and the Nieman Society of Southern Africa. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in Cape Town in July 2011.

Nominations, accompanied by a motivation of 300 words, should be emailed to az.gro.aidemtnirp@dideselam.