Entrants worldwide can submit video or audio pieces whose theme opposes racism and right-wing extremism.

The 3rd International Citizen Media Award is open to individuals, groups, associations, civil initiatives, producers, actors and editorial teams. Entrants should be private, non-commercial producers.

Entries may include an individual product, a short movie, a movie in a television broadcast, a radio spot or a video/audio podcast.

In the video category, the first-place winner will receive EU€1,000 (US$1,315). The second-place winner will participate in an international media camp and the third-place winner will receive EU€300 (US$395). In the audio category, the winner will receive EU€300 (US$395).

Entries may be in English or the native language with English subtitles and translation. They must have been created between August 2012 and August 2013. The deadline is Aug. 31.

For more information, click here: http://www.youth4media.eu/?page_id=5088

An independent Kazakh editor says she is unable to find a publishing house willing to print her magazine focusing on official corruption. 

Gulzhan Ergalieva, chief editor of the weekly «Adam Reader’s,» told journalists on July 2 she received refusals from 24 publishing houses in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty.

Ergalieva says the refusals are politically motivated.

She started her magazine after a decision in December 2012 by a Kazakh court to suspend her online news portal for three months.

That followed her reporting on the deadly clashes between police and protesting oil workers in the western town of Zhanaozen.

In 2001, a group of masked men broke into Ergalieva’s Almaty apartment and tied her up before torturing her husband in front of her for several hours, leaving him handicapped.

The attackers were never found.

Based on reporting by KazTAG and Interfax

http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-publishers-reject-magazine/25034336.html

Developers, technologists, engineers or programmers interested in journalism can apply for a fellowship.

The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship offers developers and technologists in newsrooms worldwide US$60,000 to spend 10 months writing code in collaboration with reporters, designers and newsroom developers.

Six newsrooms will be hosting this year’s fellows — The New York Times, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, La Nacion, Ushahidi and Internews in Kenya.

Along with the stipend paid over 10 months, the fellowship provides supplements for housing, childcare, health insurance, moving expenses and helps pay for research/equipment and books. The fellowship also covers the costs of required travel for fellowship activities.

To read about last year’s fellows, click here.

Apply by Aug. 17.

For more information, click here: http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/

Aprominent defender of inmates’ rights in Kazakhstan, who is himself imprisoned, has been awarded with the 18th Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize. 

The prize committee announced on July 1 that the jury of 29 European lawyers had awarded the prize to Vadim Kuramshin.

The prize will be officially presented on December 5 in Paris.

Kuramshin was found guilty of extortion and sentenced to 12 years in prison in December 2012.

In August 2012, he had been sentenced to one year of limited movement on the same charges. After he participated in an OSCE conference in Europe, prosecutors ordered a retrial.

The Ludovic-Trarieux Human Rights Prize, created in 1984, is awarded each year to a lawyer for his or her contributions to the defense of human rights.

Nelson Mandela was the first recipient of the prize in 1985.

http://www.rferl.org/content/kazakhstan-lawyer-ludovic-trarieux-prize/25033211.html

Journalists, technologists and NGO, government and UN officials working in conflict zones can apply for a two-day workshop in New York.

The US Mission to the United Nations and the State Department’s Office of eDiplomacy are hosting TechCamp NYC: Protection Journalists in Conflict at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

During the workshop, participants will work in small group discussions, which will allow them to drill down into their unique challenges and spend time with technology experts who can walk them through possible tech solutions.

Participants will set the agenda, but possible topics include verifying sources, ensuring anonymity, secure info-sharing networks, coping with trauma and more.

Participation in the conference is free, and lunch will be provided for both days. Transportation and housing costs are not covered.

The number of spaces is limited. Apply by July 1.

For more information, click here: http://techcampglobal.org/nyc.php