Addy Rossi, IFAJ Secretary General
Once again, IFAJ invites all its guilds to participate in the IFAJ Star Prize.
On January 10, 2023, registration will open so that your members’ work can be chosen among the best in the world. IFAJ brings together more than 5,000 agricultural journalists from 60 countries on 5 continents, and this is a great opportunity.
Don’t waste time, start preparing your application. Please submit your application before February 28, 2023.
All the works entered will receive technical feedback from our judges, enriching the professional development of each and every one of the colleagues who participate in the contest.
Each IFAJ member guild can enter a work, published in 2022, in each of the following IFAJ Star Prize competitions:
- Broadcast Audio
- Broadcast Video
- Digital Media
- Photography (open to individual members!)
Do you need translation? No problem. You can translate your guild entries into English for judging or ask us to do it for you. If possible, provide entries that require translation as soon as possible to allow time for translation and review before submitting the package to the judges.
You will find the rules and registration forms on the IFAJ website or by clicking here.
More questions? Get in touch with Addy Rossi, IFAJ Secretary General, by clicking here.
Please spread the word among your members. Participation is free, including translations, and there is nothing like being voted “the best in the world”!
Also in this newsletter….
The Asociación Mexicana de Periodistas y Directores de Medios Agripecuarios (AMEXMA) is organizing a press tour and hosting the 2023 winter meeting of the IFAJ Executive 22 to 27 February in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
The world is in a way small, but if you take advantage of the opportunity to network it makes your horizons and your preferences wider.
The IFAJ/Corteva Master Class Program provides training and networking through on-site streaming sessions, in-person classroom workshops, and assignments.
Each IFAJ member guild can submit one nominee for the IFAJ/Alltech Young Leader Award. Applications will be due by January 30, 2023.
At the invitation of Alpha Ousmane Souaré of the Association Média et Agriculture pour le Développement Rural (AMEDAR/Guinée), a member of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, five (5) journalists from the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists (BGAJ) went on a journey of discovery and experience sharing in Guinea
One of IFAJ’s newest members is a federation formed by merging three associations in Nepal: The Nepal Agricultural Journalists Academy (JONAA), the Agricultural Journalists Society Nepal (SAJ) and the Agricultural Communication Society. Here’s how they did it.
We will encourage our member guilds to utilize the buddy system introduced at the IFAJ to get connected with other guilds outside of Africa. These efforts could mean a lot in driving our network stronger,” said network President Jefferson Massah.
“I can try and steer away from the cliches and fixed neat narratives often trotted out by public figures when they are talking about themselves and their lives, and try instead to shift the discussion slightly differently in the hope of peeling away a few more ‘layers of the onion’…”
We were welcomed with flower garlands, fed the most aromatic curry, brewed the best tea and treated to home made burfi wrapped in silver petals. If an opportunity to visit India ever arises, grab it with both hands!
Out of 15 communications skills listed in the survey, social media, multimedia production processes and video training ranked as the top three areas where IFAJ members wanted training.
IFAJ’s 2023 Congress, New Frontiers in the Wild West, hosted by the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation, will showcase the bounty and diversity of agriculture in the beautiful prairie province of Alberta, Canada. Mark your calendar: June 27 to July 3, 2023.
