The Metcalf Institute and The Grantham Prize strive to improve and encourage outstanding environmental journalism. Working with the Grantham Prize winners, we have developed the following materials to assist educators in their efforts to teach journalism and science students how to clearly and accurately communicate environmental issues. The Prize is awarded annually to nonfiction work originally produced in the U.S.A. or Canada during the previous calendar year in newspapers, magazines, and books and on television, cable, radio, and online.
The Grantham Prize, the largest journalism cash prize in the world, honors the work of a journalist or team of journalists for exemplary reporting on environmental and/or natural resource issues with an award of $75,000. In addition, up to three finalists will be recognized with $5,000 Awards of Special Merit. The Grantham Prize is open to works of non-fiction published, broadcast, or posted online in the United States or Canada between January 1 and December 31, 2010. The purpose of The Grantham Prize is to encourage outstanding coverage of the environment and to recognize reporting with the potential to bring about constructive change. Among the criteria jurors will consider are the significance of the subject matter, quality and originality of the reporting, and the effort involved in telling the story.
Established in 2005, The Grantham Prize is funded by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham through The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and is administered by Metcalf Institute. The Grantham Foundation also supports climate change research and natural resource conservation programs in the United States and internationally. Jeremy Grantham is a Boston-based investment strategist and Hannelore Grantham is the director of The Grantham Foundation.
For more information please contact Metcalf Institute at 401-874-6211 or visit The Grantham Prize website, www.granthamprize.org.
