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Regulations
 General Information
The Embratel Press Award is a project of Embratel and the Rio de Janeiro Professional Journalists Union (SJPMRJ) with the aim of encouraging the publication of articles on national topics of interest to the public in the general media (newspaper, magazine, television, radio and Internet). The project has the support and participation of the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj), and the Photography and Movie Reporters Association (Arfoc/RJ).
The Embratel Press Award is granted annually. Its organizing staff may alter the prize categories and introduce other modifications intended to improve it at every new version.
Only journalists with a professional registration can participate.
The awards will be granted to authors of works that, in accordance with the Jury, contribute in the best way to the aforementioned goals. In 2005, prizes (*) in the gross amount of R$ 166.000,00 (one hundred and sixty-six thousand reais) will be distributed in the following categories:
Grand Prix
Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Trophy, R$ 20.000,00 (twenty thousand reais).
Nationais Awards (* refer to notes)
 Article (free topic) published in newspapers and magazines, R$ 12.000,00 (twelve thousand reais);
News story in TV broadcasting (free topic), R$ 12.000,00 (twelvle thousand reais);
Investigative journalism (article published in newspaper, radio, television or internet, R$ 12.000,00 (twelve thousand reais;
News story (free topic) in radio broadcasting, R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand reais);
Photographic article (free topic) published in newspaper, magazine, or internet), R$ 8.000,00 (eight thousand reais);
News story in motion picture or best image of news story in TV broadcasting (free topic), R$ 8.000,00 (eight thousand reais);
Sports article (in newspaper, magazine, radio, television or internet), R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand reais);
Cultural article (in newspaper, magazine, radio, television or internet), R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand reais); *refer to notes)
Social responsibility (in newspaper, magazine, radio, television or internet), R$ 8.000,00 (eight thousand reais).
International Award (* refer to notes)
Foreign correspondent, R$ 8.000,00 (eight thousand reais).
Telecommunications Awards (* refer to notes)
1 - Telecommunications article published in non-specialized media (newspaper, magazine or internet): R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand reais);
2 - Telecommunications article published in specialized media (newspaper, including specialized and/or special section, magazine or internet): R$ 10.000,00 (ten thousand reais).
Regional Awards (* refer to notes)
A R$ 5.000,00 (five thousand reais) prize will be awarded to the best work of each region (North, Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and South), regardless of the media in which it appeared. The total prize of this category amounts to R$ 25.000,00 (twenty five thousand reais).
The best regional works will be automatically nominated for the national categories, according with the media where they appeared, and will be eligible for the Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Grand Prix as well, provided that the author of the selected work has not registered any other work in those national categories.
Honorable Mention
The jury can nominate a journalistic work for the honorable mention prize of R$ 3.000,00 (three thousand reais). This honorable mention prize will be granted in the following situations, on a preferential basis:
Special tribute to a reporter playing an outstanding role in Brazil, by decision of the National Jury; or to an article registered in the Embratel Press Award, regardless of the media where it appeared, with the purpose of recognizing the work performed by such reporter, taking into account a number of situations, including: well-timed topic; journalist's perseverance; professional devotion; the article's uniqueness; the perfect timing of the journalist facing unexpected situations, like being in the right place, in the right time; distinguished research work and/or the time spent in fulfilling the work.
The Jury may recommend that an award be not granted in one or more categories, if the registered works are not deemed to meet the goals or fulfill the requirements of the Embratel Press Award.
(Note: Income tax to be paid upon gross amount of awards)
Applications
Applications must be filled out by authors themselves on a specific form and sent to the Embratel Press Award Secretariat (Rua Evaristo da Veiga, 16/17° andar- Centro - Rio de Janeiro/RJ - CEP 20031-040).
The Embratel Press Award Secretariat will certify the receipt of the applications by e-mail.
Authors of articles first published between July 2004 and August 2005 will be eligible for registration.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED BEFORE JULY 2004 AND REPRODUCED IN A SECOND EDITION BETWEEN JULY 2004 AND AUGUST 2005 WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE.
THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 14, 2005.
In the event of registration by mail, the postal date of the application form will be considered for acceptance purposes.
The forms must accompany the following items:
1 - a copy of the Ministry of Labor and Employment professional registration card, containing the candidate's name and registration number.
2 - 05 (five) normal size originals or 01 (one) original and 04 (four) copies (normal size) of the article(s) published in a newspaper or magazine. For radio broadcasting stories, 5 (five) copies on a tape or CD are required.
For radio broadcasting stories, 5 (five) copies on a tape or CD are required.
For news stories in TV broadcasting, 5 (five) copies on VHS tapes are required.
For photographic journalism, 04 (four) copies 20cm x 25cm plus 01 (one) copy 30cm x 40cm black and white or color pictures with at least one original of the page where the work was published. For digital photos, copies in the maximum size permitted by the appropriate system will be accepted.
For news article inmotion picture or best image of news article in TV broadcasting, 5 (five) copies on VHS tapes with the aired story containing the registered images.
For Internet works, 5 (five) floppy disks or 5 (five) CD Rom copies, and hard copies of the story (5 for each registered work).
In case of article(s) without signature or written under a pseudonym, the authorship will be certified in writing by the Editor or by the Chief Reporter on a letter attached to the application form.
Each author may participate in one or more categories, limited to three works or less per category, provided that it is not the same work already registered in one of the categories. The registered articles, as well as the whole material forwarded for registration purposes will not be returned. In the event of registration of more than one article by the same candidate, each article must be forwarded in a separate envelope, containing all the documentation required in compliance with the present regulations
The registration of team articles will be accepted only with an application form completed by each member of the team of professionals that took part in the work. Additionally, the registration, or the name of the story coordinator is mandatory.
Author(s) registered in the Embratel Press Award will be responsible for the good origin and the genuineness (authenticity) of the registered article(s), and will assign to Embratel the right to publish or consent with the total or partial publication by a third party of the registered article(s), through any media or form, whether in Brazil or abroad, until further notice.
Embratel will exercise this right when said publication is aimed at disseminating the event and/or the awards and/or emphasizing the authors' contribution to solving the problems related to the topic in question. Upon their registration, the author(s) will expressly agree that no compensation for such assignment will be due to them at any time and under no circumstance whatsoever, no further authorization being required for Embratel to use the referred article(s) within the limits set forth in the present regulations.
The author(s) registered in the Embratel Press Award agree with the present regulations in their entirety, and fully agree with any possible modifications that may be incorporated herein, provided that such modifications are not with respect to the awarding categories and to the prizes granted to winners, and they will also abide by the decisions of the Jury of the Embratel Press Award, and recognize their authority.
Embratel employees, SJPMRJ employees and officials, and the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj) employees are not eligible candidates to the Embratel Press Award.
The Jury
The Jury of the Embratel Press Award will be made up of 11 (eleven) members as follows:
2 (two) representatives of the Rio de Janeiro Professional Journalists Union (SJPMRJ);
1 (one) representative of the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj);
1 (one) representative of the Photographic Reporters Association (Arfoc/RJ);
7 (seven) professionals of the press.
The Chairman of the Jury will be one of the SJPMRJ representatives, who will have the power to decide in case of a draw between the candidates of any category of the Embratel Press Award.
Selection and Judgment
The judgment procedure will take place in two different stages:
Selection - The members of the Pre-Assessment and Selection Committee appointed by Embratel and by the SJPMRJ will previously select around 10 (ten) works from the articles received in each category.
During the selection of the works by the pre-selection committee, the quality of the works will be strictly taken into account: they must have good printing quality (in case of copies for registration of newspaper articles in newspapers and/or magazines), good audio quality (for tapes of radio broadcasting stations), and good audio and video quality (for works of TV broadcasting stations). For the articles published on the Internet, only the CDs or floppy disks with good reproduction quality will be taken into consideration, regardless of the hard copies (5 for each registered article) sent by the author.
THE PRE-SELECTION COMMITTEE CAN RELOCATE A WORK TO ANOTHER CATEGORY NOT INDICATED IN THE APPLICATION FORM, IF IT CONSIDERS THAT THE WORK DOES NOT FIT THE CATEGORY INDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. THIS CHANGE WILL BE REPORTED TO THE CANDIDATE.
The works with poor reproduction quality that consequently cannot be carefully assessed will be eliminated during the pre-selection phase.
The Judgment
Depending on the number of applications in each category, the Jury will select 3 (three) to 5 (five) finalists among the best articles in the national, international, telecommunications and regional categories. The finalists will be announced in November and December of 2005.
One winner will be chosen by the National Jury among the finalists in each category, according to the total score of each work.
If necessary, the Jury will meet at days, times and places to be previously arranged, in order to select, among the finalists, the winners in each category.
Only the members of the Jury and the organization staff will attend the meeting of the Jury.
The Jury can disqualify the works that are not in compliance with the goals of the award.
The judgment criteria, based on the present regulations, will be supplied to the Jury by the organization staff.
The prizewinning works and authors in each category will be known during the awarding ceremony, expected to take place inDecember of 2005, to which all finalists will be invited.
Non-Provided Cases
Non-praovided cases will be settled by the Jury.
No challenges against the decision of the Jury will be considered.
(*)Notes
Investigative Journalism (TIM LOPES Trophy) - Registration of investigative stories (one story or a series) will be accepted regardless of the theme and of the media in which they appeared (newspaper, magazine, radio, TV or the Internet). In this category, the organizing staff of the Embratel Press Award can preserve the identity of the journalist(s) who wrote the story for security reasons.
The organizing staff of the Embratel Press Award can relocate any article registered in this category if it is not considered an investigative article, for not meeting the basic specifications of investigative journalism, i.e.: the article must be the outcome of the assessment/investigation of the reporters themselves, or of a team of journalists, and require considerable effort and dedication from the author(s) including field work. Works based on documents only (reports, lawsuits, files) transferred or supplied by a third party will not be taken into consideration. Furthermore, the relevance of the theme vis-à-vis a regional or national scenario or reality will be taken into consideration, even if the issue causes no significant impact on the big press. The consistency of the story can be proven by the outcome of the issue as well: the capacity to generate an investigation - at the police, legal or congress level - filing of lawsuit, processes, judgments, etc. In this category, the first-hand publication of a given information by the reporter or by the media for which he works will lose its relevance if another reporter takes the issue ahead in more depth, with richer information and exclusive, indisputable details.
The author of an investigative article must submit the history or description of the entire investigative process, to be assessed by the Jury.
News articles in newspapers, magazines and photographic/movie works - at least one original copy of the work published and the copies that are usually required in accordance with the Registration item hereof must be produced. In case of a series of photographs, the pictures published in the same edition will be taken into consideration. For TV images, the images that were aired during the publication of the story will be taken into consideration.
Cultural story - this new category has been created with the purpose of recognizing the journalistic work that best contributes to enhance the Brazilian culture in its various forms (literature, music, theater, cinema, dancing, etc.). The following items will be taken into account: relevance of the issue (national or regional), length of the article, quality of the publication, effort made by the reporter or by the team in doing the work, etc.
Note 1: ccultural supplements developing one single issue in special editions and attached to publications distributed all over the country can also be submitted under the Cultural Journalism category.
Note 2: the Cultural Journalism category will contemplate works involving stories only, and will disregard chronicles, cultural columns or articles based only on research material (books, files, etc.).
News story in radio broadcasting: The registration of news story broadcast in radio stations must meet the following characteristics:
1) only the works identified as news stories broadcast in radio news programs (general or sports topics) rather than topics developed in a non-news program will be accepted;
2) the application form will accompany 5 (five) copies of the news story script;
3) audio tape copies of the registered works must bear the original headline of the news story made by the news host on the day and time of its broadcasting as well as the head of the news story made by the reporter.
TV news stories - The registration of news stories broadcast in TV stations (general or sports topics) must meet the following characteristics:
1) only the works identified as news stories broadcast in TV news programs (general or sports topics) rather than topics developed in a non-news program will be accepted;
2) the application form will accompany 5 (five) copies of the news story script;
3) video tape copies (VHS or Beta) of the registered works must bear the original headline of the news story made by the news host on the day of its broadcasting as well as the head of the news story made by the reporter;
4) the video copies must correspond to the aired version of the news story, containing all the characters identifying the people interviewed by the reporter.
Social Responsibility - The registration of stories focusing corporate or individual projects in the social responsibility area will be accepted regardless of the media in which they appeared (newspaper, magazine, radio, TV or the Internet). The purpose is to encourage the publication of actions in such areas, in order to promote new actions that bring more benefits and social assistance (education, housing, food, health, sanitation and jobs) to specific communities and/or groups of people. The stories should focus on projects developed by companies, groups of citizens or individual initiatives intended to reduce social inequalities in Brazil.
Regional articles - this category includes published articles dealing with local and/or regional issues, within the specific region of each media, considering the states of each region: South Region (Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina); Southeast Region (Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo); Midwest Region (Federal District, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul); North Region (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins); and Northeast Region (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.
Foreign correspondent articles - The works about Brazil published in newspapers, magazines, radio and/or television stations, and in news websites abroad will be accepted, following the criteria and the specific requirements of the media in which they appear. The same criteria provided in these Regulations apply to such cases. The topic of the registered article will meet the same specification regarding the requirement of Brazilian topics of public interest that in some way help solve the problems and consequently improve the quality of life in Brazil.
Only articles written by foreign press correspondents in Brazil will be accepted in this category.
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