Reminder: ICIJ accepting entries for Daniel Pearl Awards

WASHINGTON, US: Entries for the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting are now being accepted and must be postmarked no later than 1 July 2011.

The awards are granted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Formerly the ICIJ Awards, the prizes were renamed in 2008 in honour of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.

The winners will be announced in October at this year's Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev, Ukraine. There is no entry fee. For application information and awards criteria, go to ICIJ's Daniel Pearl Awards website.