Winners of JMI award to receive one-week BBC internship

AMMAN — Jordan Media Institute (JMI) and UNICEF have announced that the three winners of the Child Rights Reporting Award will receive a one-week internship with the BBC in London, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Sunday.

The deadline was extended to December 31. The competition, held under the theme of “Learning for all”, is aimed at encouraging more in-depth, informed and engaging stories about education in Jordan. Applications are open for print and online written media.

The submitted stories should be 700-1,000 words in length and published between 2014 and 2015, or new articles for publication. The entries, which can be in Arabic or English, should be e-mailed to [email protected] and must be submitted with a short biography of the journalist, according to the JMI.