Multimedia Storytelling Contest Launched

Reporters who have deployed multimedia tools to tell a travel tale can enter a competition to win kudos and cases.

Stylish travel gear is the first prize in the contest from Journalism.co.uk, which is seeking entries from any European-based journalists who believe they have produced an innovative online story this year connected with a journey.

“It could be a piece of travel journalism, war, foreign, local, political or sport reporting, anything that has involved a journey of some kind as part of the story,” states the website.

“Used Google Maps to chart your journey taking the temperature of potential hotspots in the run up to elections in Nigeria?

“Created interactive slideshows to document bus routes in your local town or followed a piece of news that’s speeding across you patch?”

If you have, then you are invited to nominate yourself and try your luck at winning handmade luggage from Sandstorm Kenya.

A note of caution from the organisers however: “If you have just bunged your holiday snaps on Flickr and bloggged/sent an email from your poolside destination I wouldn’t bother sending us anything.”

Submission details are available at Journalism.co.uk. The contest is open for entries until January 18.