Article 1 – Aims

The Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) and CNN are organising the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog.
The aim of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is to spotlight new journalistic talents and encourage European journalism students to practise their future art on the internet. This prize is aimed at students of all nationalities following a journalism course at a European university or school and who have created and run a regularly updated information blog. Submitted sites may be generalist or specialised.
A Grand Prize and a Jury’s Special Prize shall be awarded for the best journalistic blogs that bring an original work to the knowledge of the general public.

Article 2 – General conditions of entry

The CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is reserved for students in education in a journalism faculty or a journalism school located in a member country of the Council of Europe (Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom), Belarus or Montenegro.
It is awarded for an information blog kept by an author in English or French. Entrants may not be over 30 years of age on 31 December 2006. Blogs submitted to the Jury must be regularly updated and capable of being so updated AT LEAST until 31 May 2007.

Article 3 – Composition of the entry dossier

Each entry dossier must compulsorily comprise:
- the registration file duly completed by the student in education.
This file is available along with the rules at www.cfpj.com www.cnnblogawards.com.
a curriculum vitae in French or English,
an attestation from the educational establishment certifying that the student is in education (original in English or French, as the case may be with certified translation into one of these two languages)
Any incomplete file shall be disqualified.

Article 4 – Preservation of anonymity

An author may compete under a pseudonym. He must nonetheless lodge his entry under his real identify, which shall be revealed only if he expresses a desire to do so.

Article 5 – Personal data

Information obtained from participants is liable to undergo data processing intended for the proper management of entries. In accordance with the law on data processing and liberties of 6 January 1978, participants have a right to access and rectify information concerning them; for this purpose they may send an email to info@cnnblogawards.com.

Article 6 – Definition of blog

Here we understand by blog an individual online publication regularly updated by its author, who freely expresses himself there in accordance with his chosen frequency, in the form of texts and/or photographs, sound and video. These elements must be enriched with hyperlinks and are liable to be commented upon by the general public.
Allowed to take part are blogs that are not password protected and are thus freely accessible on the internet at no charge. Incomplete or incorrect URLs cannot be published in the list of proposals submitted to the Jury and thus are not entitled to participate in the competition.

Article 7 – Discriminatory content

The organisers shall disqualify from the competition any blog that in their opinion comprises or has hyperlinks to content that is defamatory, offensive, sexist, homophobic or revisionist or incites racial hatred or undermines human dignity.
The organisers shall disqualify from the competition any blog that includes comments from the general public comprising these types of content; authors taking part in the competition undertake when they register to moderate and filter words from members of the general public on their blog.

Article 8 – Liability and indemnifications

Each entrant guarantees the authorship of the work submitted by him. Any false, erroneous or incomplete declaration as to the authorship of the work incurs the participant’s liability and shall result in the cancellation of the registration and the withdrawal of the prize.
Participants indemnify the CFJ and/or CNN against any third-party demands, claims, proceedings and/or actions related to participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog that may in particular result from the content of their blogs and agree to bear all legal costs and fees of any type whatsoever and any damages and indemnities that the CFJ and/or CNN might be ordered to pay in this respect.

Article 9 – Lodgement of entries

Entrants dossiers must be sent to the CFJ website or www.cnnblogawards.com before 1 May 2007. Dossiers arriving after this date shall not be kept.

Article 10 – Processing of entries

Blogs sent under the terms of articles 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shall be transmitted to a Selection Committee (the Jury) made up of representatives of the CFJ and CNN and personalities from the world of journalism. URLs of the pre-selected blogs shall be disseminated so that they can be examined and/or conserved.
Entrants thus expressly authorise the organisers to disseminate the URL of their blog and the elements of which it is made up for the purposes of the competition.

Article 11 – Working procedure of the Jury charged with naming the two winners of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog Content criteria for the competition (Jury)

Participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is not tied to any particular subject. Because they give an account of or comment on events of contemporary history, European blog entries dealing with political subjects are taken into particular consideration for the “Best blog” category in each of the two languages. Blogs that take an interest in the press or other subjects related to the media also come within this category. The CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog also aims to promote freedom of information on the internet.
The Jury’s decision
The winners of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog are determined by an international jury made up of journalists, media specialists and expert bloggers. The Jury meets in May 2007 to name the winner from among the list of finalists. In the event of a tie in votes, the Chairman of the Jury shall have a casting vote. The way in which entries are examined shall be determined by the members of the Jury when they first meet. The Jury’s decisions are final.
In assessing the blogs in contention, the members of the Jury take account not only of content criteria but also of functional and formal criteria.
Here are a few examples:

Content
Linguistic competence, ease of comprehension, topicality, transparency, credibility.

Creativity
Originality of subject matter, humour, use of innovative stylistic tools.

Presentation
Attractive and functional design. Integration of other multimedia elements (animations, graphics, audio, video).

Ease of use
Interactivity, easy navigation, network of links, comments function and other help functions.

The aforementioned aspects guide the Jury’s deliberations.

Article 12 – Naming of winners

From among the entries provided, the Jury, made up under the terms of article 9, shall choose the winner of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog and the Jury’s Special Prize.
It is stipulated that:
- there can be no equally placed winners. In the event that two or more entrants are equally deserving of the prize, it shall be for the Chairman of the Jury to decide between the entrants;
- the aim of this competition is to secure the promotion of authors.

Article 13 – Informing the winners

The winners shall be informed of their nomination by recorded delivery letter with acknowledgment of receipt not later than two weeks after the Jury’s meeting.

Article 14 – Awards made to the winners

The winners chosen under the terms of article 10 shall enjoy:
for the winner of the Grand Prize: a six-week internship at the editorial head office of CNN International in London, remunerated in full by payment of the flat-rate amount of €2,500. All incidental expenses (in particular, without this list being exhaustive, travel, insurance, accommodation and catering expenses) are borne by the winner;
for the winner of the Jury’s Special Prize: a one-month training internship organised by CFPJ International.

Article 15 – Terms under which awards are made

The terms under which these awards are made shall be stipulated by the organisers to the winners.

Article 16 – Confirmation of status of winner

Nomination of the winner named under the terms of article 10 shall become official only when the winner has unreservedly confirmed in writing that:
- he accepts the award offered to him;
- he agrees to take part in the events organised as part of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog and to make himself available to the organisers for any communication or promotion operation or other events organised by the CFJ and CNN intended to promote his name and his work, on the dates and at the places to be indicated to him;
- he agrees to the use of his blog under the terms of article 18.

Article 17 – Possibility of cancellation

If the winner fails to subscribe to the undertakings stipulated in these rules, his prize shall be awarded to the entrant placed second in the Jury’s selection or placed third if the person placed second gives up his prize. In this event the organisers may elect not to award the prize.
Winners of the prizes may not compete for the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog on the two occasions on which the competition is held following the year in which they were winners.

Article 18 – Possibility of not making awards

If the Jury mentioned in article 9 takes the view that none of the blogs submitted deserves to win, it may elect not to award the prize.

Article 19 – Right to exploit the works and image of the winners for promotional purposes

Participants assign to the CFJ and CNN free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis the right to exploit, reproduce and represent the winning blogs, for all zones and all countries, on all media and without restriction as to number, solely for the purposes of promoting the winner and the organisers, in particular on a paper, magnetic, mechanical or digital medium or any other known or future medium, by the means of their choice.
The regulations pertaining to the exploitation of these rights shall be those in force in France.
Any dissemination or publication shall mention the forenames and surname of the author or, failing this, his pseudonym.
The period of assignment of these rights of exploitation is two years from the date on which the winners are named. Beyond this first time limit and for the maximum duration of the period of assignment, the winners authorise the CFJ and CNN to reproduce their blog as part of a compilation made for promotional purposes; this reproduction may not give rise to remuneration.
The winning blogs may be the subject of dissemination and/or publication by the French media under conditions to be fixed between the media and the winners.
The winners authorise the CFJ and CNN to capture, reproduce and disseminate their image for the purposes of promoting the winner, the competition and the organisers.

Article 20 – Intellectual property

On no account does participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog entitle its participants to insert, reproduce, represent or exploit, in any way whatsoever, on any medium whatsoever and in any form whatsoever the intellectual property rights of the CFJ and/or CNN or any entity in the group to which CNN belongs (in particular, without this list being exhaustive, marks, logos, domain names or any other distinctive signs).
In this respect, participants undertake not to insert any hypertext link into their blog that leads to the websites of the CFJ and/or CNN or any entity in the group to which CNN belongs.

Article 21 – General provisions

- The fact of taking part in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog implies full and unconditional acceptance of the terms of its rules and of the Jury’s decisions. No recourse based on its terms, the conditions of its procedure or its results shall be admitted.
- Families of members of the Selection Committee, employees of the organisers and members of the Jury are not eligible to take part in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog.

Article 22 – Language, applicable law and place of jurisdiction

These rules are written in the French and English languages.
It is stipulated that in the event of dispute the French version of these rules shall prevail.
These rules are subject to French law.
Any disagreement arising as a result of the interpretation and/or execution of these rules shall be submitted, in the event of failure to arrive at an out-of-court settlement, to the Paris court of first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris).

Article 23 – Lodgement of these rules

These rules are lodged, in the French and English languages, with the law firm of Messrs Hauguel and Schambourg, associated bailiffs, 14 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris.

	CFJ/CNN EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR THE BEST STUDENT INFORMATION BLOG 2006 RULES
	Article 1 – Aims The Centre de Formation des Journalistes (CFJ) and CNN are organising the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog. The aim of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is to spotlight new journalistic talents and encourage European journalism students to practise their future art on the internet. This prize is aimed at students of all nationalities following a journalism course at a European university or school and who have created and run a regularly updated information blog. Submitted sites may be generalist or specialised. A Grand Prize and a Jury’s Special Prize shall be awarded for the best journalistic blogs that bring an original work to the knowledge of the general public. Article 2 – General conditions of entry The CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is reserved for students in education in a journalism faculty or a journalism school located in a member country of the Council of Europe (Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, the Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom), Belarus or Montenegro. It is awarded for an information blog kept by an author in English or French. Entrants may not be over 30 years of age on 31 December 2006. Blogs submitted to the Jury must be regularly updated and capable of being so updated AT LEAST until 31 May 2007. Article 3 – Composition of the entry dossier Each entry dossier must compulsorily comprise: - the registration file duly completed by the student in education. This file is available along with the rules at www.cfpj.com www.cnnblogawards.com. a curriculum vitae in French or English, an attestation from the educational establishment certifying that the student is in education (original in English or French, as the case may be with certified translation into one of these two languages) Any incomplete file shall be disqualified. Article 4 – Preservation of anonymity An author may compete under a pseudonym. He must nonetheless lodge his entry under his real identify, which shall be revealed only if he expresses a desire to do so. Article 5 – Personal data Information obtained from participants is liable to undergo data processing intended for the proper management of entries. In accordance with the law on data processing and liberties of 6 January 1978, participants have a right to access and rectify information concerning them; for this purpose they may send an email to info@cnnblogawards.com. Article 6 – Definition of blog Here we understand by blog an individual online publication regularly updated by its author, who freely expresses himself there in accordance with his chosen frequency, in the form of texts and/or photographs, sound and video. These elements must be enriched with hyperlinks and are liable to be commented upon by the general public. Allowed to take part are blogs that are not password protected and are thus freely accessible on the internet at no charge. Incomplete or incorrect URLs cannot be published in the list of proposals submitted to the Jury and thus are not entitled to participate in the competition. Article 7 – Discriminatory content The organisers shall disqualify from the competition any blog that in their opinion comprises or has hyperlinks to content that is defamatory, offensive, sexist, homophobic or revisionist or incites racial hatred or undermines human dignity. The organisers shall disqualify from the competition any blog that includes comments from the general public comprising these types of content; authors taking part in the competition undertake when they register to moderate and filter words from members of the general public on their blog. Article 8 – Liability and indemnifications Each entrant guarantees the authorship of the work submitted by him. Any false, erroneous or incomplete declaration as to the authorship of the work incurs the participant’s liability and shall result in the cancellation of the registration and the withdrawal of the prize. Participants indemnify the CFJ and/or CNN against any third-party demands, claims, proceedings and/or actions related to participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog that may in particular result from the content of their blogs and agree to bear all legal costs and fees of any type whatsoever and any damages and indemnities that the CFJ and/or CNN might be ordered to pay in this respect. Article 9 – Lodgement of entries Entrants dossiers must be sent to the CFJ website or www.cnnblogawards.com before 1 May 2007. Dossiers arriving after this date shall not be kept. Article 10 – Processing of entries Blogs sent under the terms of articles 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shall be transmitted to a Selection Committee (the Jury) made up of representatives of the CFJ and CNN and personalities from the world of journalism. URLs of the pre-selected blogs shall be disseminated so that they can be examined and/or conserved. Entrants thus expressly authorise the organisers to disseminate the URL of their blog and the elements of which it is made up for the purposes of the competition. Article 11 – Working procedure of the Jury charged with naming the two winners of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog Content criteria for the competition (Jury) Participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog is not tied to any particular subject. Because they give an account of or comment on events of contemporary history, European blog entries dealing with political subjects are taken into particular consideration for the “Best blog” category in each of the two languages. Blogs that take an interest in the press or other subjects related to the media also come within this category. The CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog also aims to promote freedom of information on the internet. The Jury’s decision The winners of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog are determined by an international jury made up of journalists, media specialists and expert bloggers. The Jury meets in May 2007 to name the winner from among the list of finalists. In the event of a tie in votes, the Chairman of the Jury shall have a casting vote. The way in which entries are examined shall be determined by the members of the Jury when they first meet. The Jury’s decisions are final. In assessing the blogs in contention, the members of the Jury take account not only of content criteria but also of functional and formal criteria. Here are a few examples: Content Linguistic competence, ease of comprehension, topicality, transparency, credibility. Creativity Originality of subject matter, humour, use of innovative stylistic tools. Presentation Attractive and functional design. Integration of other multimedia elements (animations, graphics, audio, video). Ease of use Interactivity, easy navigation, network of links, comments function and other help functions. The aforementioned aspects guide the Jury’s deliberations. Article 12 – Naming of winners From among the entries provided, the Jury, made up under the terms of article 9, shall choose the winner of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog and the Jury’s Special Prize. It is stipulated that: - there can be no equally placed winners. In the event that two or more entrants are equally deserving of the prize, it shall be for the Chairman of the Jury to decide between the entrants; - the aim of this competition is to secure the promotion of authors. Article 13 – Informing the winners The winners shall be informed of their nomination by recorded delivery letter with acknowledgment of receipt not later than two weeks after the Jury’s meeting. Article 14 – Awards made to the winners The winners chosen under the terms of article 10 shall enjoy: for the winner of the Grand Prize: a six-week internship at the editorial head office of CNN International in London, remunerated in full by payment of the flat-rate amount of €2,500. All incidental expenses (in particular, without this list being exhaustive, travel, insurance, accommodation and catering expenses) are borne by the winner; for the winner of the Jury’s Special Prize: a one-month training internship organised by CFPJ International. Article 15 – Terms under which awards are made The terms under which these awards are made shall be stipulated by the organisers to the winners. Article 16 – Confirmation of status of winner Nomination of the winner named under the terms of article 10 shall become official only when the winner has unreservedly confirmed in writing that: - he accepts the award offered to him; - he agrees to take part in the events organised as part of the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog and to make himself available to the organisers for any communication or promotion operation or other events organised by the CFJ and CNN intended to promote his name and his work, on the dates and at the places to be indicated to him; - he agrees to the use of his blog under the terms of article 18. Article 17 – Possibility of cancellation If the winner fails to subscribe to the undertakings stipulated in these rules, his prize shall be awarded to the entrant placed second in the Jury’s selection or placed third if the person placed second gives up his prize. In this event the organisers may elect not to award the prize. Winners of the prizes may not compete for the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog on the two occasions on which the competition is held following the year in which they were winners. Article 18 – Possibility of not making awards If the Jury mentioned in article 9 takes the view that none of the blogs submitted deserves to win, it may elect not to award the prize. Article 19 – Right to exploit the works and image of the winners for promotional purposes Participants assign to the CFJ and CNN free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis the right to exploit, reproduce and represent the winning blogs, for all zones and all countries, on all media and without restriction as to number, solely for the purposes of promoting the winner and the organisers, in particular on a paper, magnetic, mechanical or digital medium or any other known or future medium, by the means of their choice. The regulations pertaining to the exploitation of these rights shall be those in force in France. Any dissemination or publication shall mention the forenames and surname of the author or, failing this, his pseudonym. The period of assignment of these rights of exploitation is two years from the date on which the winners are named. Beyond this first time limit and for the maximum duration of the period of assignment, the winners authorise the CFJ and CNN to reproduce their blog as part of a compilation made for promotional purposes; this reproduction may not give rise to remuneration. The winning blogs may be the subject of dissemination and/or publication by the French media under conditions to be fixed between the media and the winners. The winners authorise the CFJ and CNN to capture, reproduce and disseminate their image for the purposes of promoting the winner, the competition and the organisers. Article 20 – Intellectual property On no account does participation in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog entitle its participants to insert, reproduce, represent or exploit, in any way whatsoever, on any medium whatsoever and in any form whatsoever the intellectual property rights of the CFJ and/or CNN or any entity in the group to which CNN belongs (in particular, without this list being exhaustive, marks, logos, domain names or any other distinctive signs). In this respect, participants undertake not to insert any hypertext link into their blog that leads to the websites of the CFJ and/or CNN or any entity in the group to which CNN belongs. Article 21 – General provisions - The fact of taking part in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog implies full and unconditional acceptance of the terms of its rules and of the Jury’s decisions. No recourse based on its terms, the conditions of its procedure or its results shall be admitted. - Families of members of the Selection Committee, employees of the organisers and members of the Jury are not eligible to take part in the CFJ/CNN European Prize for the Best Student Information Blog. Article 22 – Language, applicable law and place of jurisdiction These rules are written in the French and English languages. It is stipulated that in the event of dispute the French version of these rules shall prevail. These rules are subject to French law. Any disagreement arising as a result of the interpretation and/or execution of these rules shall be submitted, in the event of failure to arrive at an out-of-court settlement, to the Paris court of first instance (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris). Article 23 – Lodgement of these rules These rules are lodged, in the French and English languages, with the law firm of Messrs Hauguel and Schambourg, associated bailiffs, 14 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris.