The competition is open to any professional journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in any medium. To be eligible, the investigation — either a single work or a single-subject series — must involve reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance. A five-member jury of international journalists selects the winners.
ICIJ hands out two first-place US$5,000 awards, along with a number of other finalist awards of US$1,000 each.
There is no entry fee, and the top two winners will be flown to Geneva for an awards ceremony at the 2010 Global Investigative Journalism Conference.
Entries must be mailed by 15 January 2010.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity to extend globally the centre's style of watchdog journalism in the public interest.
For more information, go to www.publicintegrity.org or email Te-Ping Chen at .
