Vice, La Stampa, DWDL.de and El Pais are the media partners that will publish the five winning videos on the topic “A Story of Transformation Thanks to Digitalisation and New Technologies”

Amazon will award the five winning university students with a trip to Perugia to take part in the International Journalism Festival

Luxembourg, 9th February, 2017 – For the third year Amazon is pleased to launch the International Journalism Festival Prize.  University students, aged 18-25 from across Europe are challenged to send a video of two minutes or less about “A Story of Transformation Thanks to Digitalisation and New Technologies”. 

The five winning students will have their video published by Vice, La Stampa, DWDL.de and El Pais during the week of the festival, and receive reimbursement of full airfare and lodging accommodations from Amazon so they may attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia (April 5th - 9th).

The contest starts today and the deadline for submissions is March 6th, 2017. The video will be judged by Amazon and journalists from Vice, La Stampa, DWDL.de, and El Pais,based on their relevance to the subject, the journalistic style of the video and how informative, inspirational or engaging it is. The winning video will be published on the online media partner websites. To discover last year winning students click here.

"We're pleased to have Amazon for the fourth consecutive year as the main sponsor of the International Journalism Festival," said Arianna Ciccone, who along with Chris Potter founded the IJF in 2006.
"Amazon, which has represented a revolution in the consumption of digital content, plays a crucial role in the spread of knowledge. The third edition of the scholarship created by Amazon in collaboration with the IJF and with the support of several major European publications will focus on the digital transformation. This year's topic means a lot to us, given that it represents the history of the International Journalism Festival, which was founded 11 years ago and has develop through and thanks to the Internet, which has allowed us to distribute the event's contents around the world, making them available to everyone at any time, and to create an active community united by a passion for journalism, sharing knowledge and innovation."

Jamie Clifton, Editor VICE.com UK commented:  "VICE is honoured to be supporting the International Journalism Festival, and helping the next generation of great journalists and storytellers find a platform to make sense of the world through the medium of video."

“We are proud to be the main sponsor of this year’s Festival of Journalism and have the opportunity to support students from Europe in gaining inspiration from experts as they look to their future careers,” said Alessio Santarelli, Director of EU Kindle Content at Amazon. “We look forward to seeing compelling stories of transformation empowered by new technologies and digitalization, from the students participating in the contest.”

Students can submit their entry for the International Journalism Festival Scholarship by filling in the form in the dedicated IJF scholarship webpage www.amazon.co.uk/ijf-scholarship. To participate students have to include the link to the video news uploaded on Amazon Drive (www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive).

Deadline for submission is March 6th, 2017.  Winners will be informed by the end of March.  For more information and a complete set of rules, visit www.amazon.co.uk/ijf-scholarship.

Amazon is sponsoring the festival for the fourth consecutive year.  The 11th annual festival – the largest media event in Europe featuring dozens of daily sessions and hundreds of speakers – will be held from April 5-9 in Perugia, Italy.  Amazon and IJF both believe in the foremost importance of readers and in helping content creators, including journalists and authors, to connect with even more readers in new and different ways. 

Thanks to the support of Amazon, the festival continues strengthening its role as a five-day full-immersion think-tank where journalists can exchange opinions with readers and/or other journalists on the implications of the profound changes that have been taking place in the world of news and knowledge (newspapers, books), which has transformed almost overnight from a static into a free-flowing environment, into a new world offering seemingly unlimited possibilities.

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