Media for Liberty Award 2014, USA

The 2014 Media and Liberty Award is inviting online submissions from media contributors who have made outstanding entries between 1st January 2013 to 21 December 2013.The main aim of the award is to encourage media contributions that explore the relationship between economic liberty (freedom of individuals to make economic choices in a free-market environment) and political liberty (freedom from government intervention and fostering of civil liberties).

The topics of entries made may include Sovereign debt, cause or downfall of the common goods (food, housing, healthcare) becoming prohibitively expensive for the average consumer, ultimate impact of globalization and its impact on the middle class, the true cost of ethanol and its impact on food and fuel, dependency on foreign oil, fair trade, government involvement in private enterprise (TARP, health and financial reform), global tax and regulatory changes, access to healthcare (universal care, rationing, medicare) or any other topics that relate to economic and political liberty. The award is of $50,000 cash prize along with a trip to the award ceremony in Washington D.C. in spring 2014.7

Eligibility Criteria – 

• Entries must be published or transmitted via print or electronic media between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 and must be an original work of the entrant. Eligible media outlets, including newspapers, magazines, journals, radio, television and websites, must be generally recognized in their markets and accessible to a broad audience in the United States.
• Print entries may not exceed 20,000 words and electronic entries may not exceed 120 minutes.
• Entries must be in English, or submitted with an English translation or with English subtitles originally published or transmitted between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013.
• Entries may include, but are not limited to, news reporting, feature coverage, investigative reporting, articles, essays, editorials, commentaries and documentaries. Programs produced and intended for general theatrical motion picture release are not eligible. Montage of speeches, news coverage, video footage, graphic content or similar entries will also not be accepted.
• Entrant can be from anywhere in the world. She/he must be at least 21 years of age at the time of entry. Employees of Liberty Media (and its affiliates), their immediate families and those living in their household are not eligible.

Fill Media for Liberty Award Form to enter for the award.

Please visit Official Contest Rules for information regarding the prescribed format of the submission.

For more information, visit Official Media for Liberty Award page.