Public communication award

Deadline: 01/08/11

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The 2011 John F. Murray Prize in Strategic Communication for the Public Good will be awarded by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Iowa to a pioneering innovator who uses communications to ennoble the human spirit.

Candidates may reside in the United States or elsewhere.

The organization seeks an individual whose work through persuasive communication has elevated the well-being of our shared human existence. Such a person will have conceived of, played a key role in, or carried out a vital public campaign aimed at increasing awareness - or spurring a behavioral change - of a fundamental issue that improves the world in which we live.

Innovators may have spearheaded public causes, such as advancing health care, education, environment/sustainability, quality of life, or democratic values and governance. They may have created a successful civic project that caused dramatic, quantifiable, and necessary reforms. The results should have a clear and demonstrable impact in either the public or private sectors.

The John F. Murray Prize consists of an engraved crystal bowl and an honorarium of US$2,500.

Deadline to apply is August 1.

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