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The eighth staging of the annual Henry Ford Awards (HFA)
will be pumped with new blood as budding automotive writers among
college students are welcome to send in their best stories to
HFA’s newest category.
The HFA, the country’s first
and premier award-giving body for excellence in automotive
journalism, adds the Student’s Category: Automotive Feature Story
to this year’s competition.
“We want to push the envelope
further by encouraging young talents who, in due time, would become
the trailblazers in the automotive journalism industry,” said Ford
Group Phils. President Rick Baker.
The Student’s Category:
Automotive Feature Story is open for college students who are not
associated, affiliated or employed with any mainstream media, on
either full-time or part-time basis. The category is not exclusive
to journalism students, and the story should have been published in
their college or university publication within the period of October
1, 2007 to September 30, 2008. Entrants should be enrolled during
the same period and should submit proof of education, an endorsement
letter from the college dean and a copy of the entire college or
university publication in which the submitted story was published.
The student’s category is seen
as a much welcome addition to the growing roster of HFA regular and
special categories
Winners of the HFA regular
categories receive P40,000 while special category winners get
P50,000. The first student winner gets P20,000.
The deadline for submission of
entries is on October 1. For more information, log on to www.ford.com.ph.
--Ben Arnold O. De Vera
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