KATE WEBB Award

Agence France-Presse has decided to make an annual award of 5,000 euros in memory of one its finest former foreign correspondents, Kate Webb, who died on 13 May, 2007. Kate spent most of her professional life in Asia. She was devoted to the local staff in the bureaus where she worked and she inspired their loyalty and affection.

The award, which will take the form of a travelling scholarship, will be associated with the AFP Foundation. The award will consist of a grant to finance a reporting trip which the applicant might otherwise be unable to afford.

The award is meant to give the successful applicant a wider window on the world, an opportunity to see how other countries view his or her own country, the possibility of enhancing career opportunities and be a broadening personal experience.

It will be made in recognition of exceptional work produced while reporting in dangerous or difficult circumstances, or to journalists who have recently demonstrated moral or physical courage in reporting, or to those who have produced recent work of outstanding quality, originality or great promise.

The winner should be prepared to spend at least two weeks at his or her destination of choice and will be expected to use the grant to produce a piece of work - text, photographs or video - which will be displayed on the website of the AFP Foundation.

The winner will be selected by a panel including the Global Executive News Editor of Agence France-Presse and a representative of Kate Webb's family. The Award will be announced each year on March 24, the date of Kate's birthday, and applications will be accepted up until February 1 of the year in which the award is made.

Applicants must be locally engaged professional journalists employed by a wire service or newspaper. The term "journalist" includes photographers, camera crew, stringers, video camera and audio journalists and others working in the increasingly diversified field of agency and newspaper journalism.

The award is limited to applicants working in the Asia-Pacific region.

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