The media monitoring and mistake correcting program has been awarded in Wienna last week.
The media monitoring and mistake correcting program has been awarded in Wienna last week.
The award SozialMarie is to honour innovative and creative social projects. Beyond financial recognition, it is to contribute to award-winning projects' getting more widely known. Furthermore, the tendering of these prices and the award ceremony are to contribute to the stimulation of political and scientific discourse on social innovation.
On the left: The Mediamonitor program coordinator, István Gábor Takács
The Mediamonitor program of the HCLU has been selected from the near 200 programs to belong to the best 15, and has been awarded with the prize of a 1000 Euros.
The programs aim is to improve the quality of Hungarian drug related media. We constantly monitoring the press and other media and react on drug related biases, stereotypes and misunderstandings with science based facts. Each time we react, we cite the appropriate sources that journalists may use in order to improve and deepen their knowledge in the field. Through raising awareness on the issue of credibility we aim at fighting stigmatization and try to give such information that would effectively help reducing drugs and drug policy related harm.
At the ceremony in Wienna
You may reach our program here (only in Hungarian)
About our program you may read an earlier presentation of the coordinator:
István Gábor Takács (2005) Breaking Down the Drug Myths – The Mediamonitor Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Paper presented at the conference RE:activism: Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in new media environment,
We feel very much honored and grateful for this prize and we will use the fund for financing our further work.
The SozialMarie webpage (HTML)
The winners (HTML)
Pictures from the ceremony (HTML)
The prize
István Gábor Takács
HCLU
7 May 2007
