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9 January 2009
Journalists are invited by fpa to submit their entries for the Rosemary Goodchild Award 2009. The £500 prize honours the best published newspaper or magazine article on sexual health issues from the 1 January - 31 December 2008.
Created in memory of fpa’s former press officer, who died in March 1988, the award is open to all national and regional press, consumer magazines and professional journals. It is given in recognition of the important role journalists play in informing the public and promoting good sexual health. For the first time fpa is accepting commissioned articles appearing as online content on UK websites only. See fpa’s website for more details.
The winning article must:
- Focus on a sexual health issue. This could include sex and relationships education, sexual health services, sexually transmitted infections, sexuality and gender, sex and the law, abortion or contraception.
- Be factually correct
- Be medically sound
- Help make positive changes in people’s behaviour.
Only one entry per journalist is accepted. Entries must have been published between 1 January – 31 December 2008. The winner will be announced in June 2009.
The deadline for entries is first post Friday 13 March 2009.
An entry form and guidelines can be downloaded from fpa’s website at www.fpa.org.uk. Send completed entries to Rosemary Goodchild Award, fpa Press Office, 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8QU. Call Adam Stevens at fpa’s press office on 020 7608 5264 for further information.
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fpa (Family Planning Association) is the only registered charity working to improve the sexual health and reproductive rights of all people throughout the UK.
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