Bayer HealthCare honors good medical reporting

In 2003, Bayer HealthCare introduced the European Journalists’ Prize together with the Association of German Medical Journalists (VDMJ). Since then, the annually announced award, which is endowed with the sum of Euro 7,500, has been honouring outstanding pieces of medical journalistic reporting in the field of printed media, radio, and TV/film. The work has to be carefully researched and must take a critical, easily comprehensible, and objective approach to a medical or health-related subject.

Last year, the company and the VDMJ additionally announced the “Advances in Renal Cancer Journalists’ Award Europe” for the first time. The prize is awarded to medical journalists, who cover the issue of renal cancer in a critical, but yet objective manner. The award is also endowed with the sum of Euro 7,500 and is donated by Bayer HealthCare. A jury will decide what publication or program in Europe was the year’s most outstanding piece on renal cancer.

The statutes and application documents for both journalists’ prizes can be viewed as PDF documents in the viva.vita download area. Journalistic work to be taken into account for the European Journalists’ Prize has to be submitted by January 31, 2010.

More information at www.journalistenvereinigung.de (German-language only).