{"id":2887,"date":"2016-10-13T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:22:23","slug":"contest-seeks-innovative-stories-about-children-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2016\/10\/13\/contest-seeks-innovative-stories-about-children-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest seeks innovative stories about children [Africa]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists in East and Southern Africa are invited to submit their story ideas for this contest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamonitoringafrica.org\/\">Media Monitoring Africa<\/a> (MMA), in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethechildren.net\/\">Save the Children International <\/a>(SCI) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MNCRDAfrica\/\">Media Network on Child Rights and Development<\/a> (MNCRD), are organizing\u00a0the Isu Elihle (Great Idea) Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The contest aims to\u00a0encourage fresh reporting, innovative angles, insightful investigations and those that seek to give children a voice and elevate the status of the child in Eastern and Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The competition has two stages:\u00a0submission of story idea and\u00a0producing and publishing the full story.\u00a0The top three journalists\u2019 newsrooms will be given financial support to research and develop their concepts into publishable materials.<\/p>\n<p>Three overall winners will receive cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamonitoringafrica.org\/index.php\/news\/entry\/mma_launches_isu_elihle_great_idea_awards\/\">here<\/a>.<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    if ( is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) { return; }\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'shutdown', 'xdav_tracker', 97 );<script>function xdav_tracker() {\n    ?>\n<\/script><br \/>\n    <?php\n}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'xdav_tracker', 96 );\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists in East and Southern Africa are invited to submit their story ideas for this contest. Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), in partnership with Save the Children International (SCI) and Media&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/2016\/10\/13\/contest-seeks-innovative-stories-about-children-africa\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13215,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/13215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdf-centre.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}