Deadline looms for media scholarship
Deadline looms for media scholarship
Allaboutthestory.com, the online marketplace for news stories and cartoons, has sweetened the pot for The Allaboutthestory.com Media Scholarship, adding a free ticket to WordCamp to the prize package which also includes a ticket to Webstock and the Onyas.
The successful scholar will first attend Webstock, where the speakers include co-founder of The Pirate Bay Peter Sunde, performance artist Amanda Palmer, co-founder of Tumblr and founder of Instapaper Marco Arment, data journalist David McCandless, cartoonist Scott McCloud, Ruby on Rails luminary (and allaboutthestory.com co-founder) Michael Koziarski and web designer Jason Santa Maria.
They’ll get a ticket to the website awards, the Onyas, which reward the best websites in New Zealand – and a ticket to WordCamp.
The scholarship
package represents a lot of opportunities for
contact-building, interviewing web stars from here and
overseas, and learning a whole lot more about the digital
universe.
But potential scholars will have to be quick
getting their applications in - the deadline is this Sunday,
January 30, 2011.
Here are the details of the
scholarship:
The Award
• Media
registration for both days of the Webstock
conference (Thursday & Friday February 14-18, 2011) which
includes conference pass, free coffee, and much-admired
conference bag and other schwag.
• A face to
face interview set up for you with at least one Webstock
speaker and the opportunity to mix and mingle with
others.
• A ticket to the WordCamp
conference (Saturday & Sunday (February 19-20, 2011)
•
A ticket to the Onya Awards 2011.
How to
Apply
Email Julie Starr - julie@allaboutthestory.com - by January
30, 2011 explaining:
• why you would like to attend
Webstock 2011
• which speaker you most want to
interview and why
• which publication you write for or
intend to pitch any Webstock-related stories to
• how
the scholarship would help you in your career
• why
you’re the right person for the
scholarship
•
Obligations
The scholar
will be required to write at least three stories for
publication in the lead-up to and during the conference. The
stories must be written to national newspaper
standard.
Eligibility
You must be available to
attend Webstock in Wellington on Thursday February 17 and
Friday February 18 2011.
You must be an active member of
allaboutthestory.com with a completed
profile and at least one publication-standard news story or
feature posted for sale on the site as at January 30, 2011.
Not a member yet? It's free and quick to register today!
You must be able to
cover the costs of travel, accommodation and incidental
expenses related to attending the conference
yourself.
Got a question?
Email Julie@allaboutthestory.com and she’ll
help you out. Or follow #tams on
Twitter.
ENDS