Are you a journalism, media studies, or communications student? Are you interested in new and interactive forms of storytelling? Are you keen to explore new ways of engaging audiences?
We’d like to invite you to become an InterviewJS beta tester, to give us feedback to your experience, and to enter a story built with InterviewJS into our competition.
Imagine you have just researched a feature story, covered a growing debate, or embarked on an investigation: You will have strong, long-form interviews in which your interviewees express different points of view, and you’re like to have multimedia elements for illustration.
InterviewJS enables you to convert these interviews into multimedia-rich question and answer stories in a chat app format.
Start by introducing the story and the characters before reaching the chat dashboard where you can turn interview quotes into text messages and introduce interactivity by inserting questions and multimedia.
The result are self contained InterviewJS, mobile first stories which are accessed via a url. Users are engaged not just by messaging with the interviewees but also through the use of videos, maps, audio, charts and any other type of embedded content. At the end, they receive feedback on how much of the story they have explored, and they are invited to have their say via a story-related opinion poll.
A jury composed of Al Jazeera commissioning editors and digital producers drawn from our four news hubs in Doha, London, Washington and Kuala Lumpur will select a winner and two runner-ups.
One lucky winner will receive a cash prize of 650 Euros. We will also select two runner-ups and all three stories will be published by Al Jazeera English on the InterviewJS website.
Our judges will reward:
To qualify for the competition you must be enrolled at BA or MA level in a journalism, media studies, or communications degree. The winners will be required to submit proof of enrollment.
The rules of journalism apply to all stories submitted for competition: the reporting must be factual, balanced, fair, and accurate. Interviews can be sub-edited but meaning must not be altered and quotes must never be made up.
As Al Jazeera seeks to publish the three finalists on a website, all winners must be able to provide us with consent from their interviewees. Winners must be able to demonstrate the right to use any multimedia that’s been included.
Submissions open: 26th November 2018
By entering you agree to our competition terms
(Read the official rules).
InterviewJS Competition
26 November 2018 - 31 December 2018
[Worldwide]
Official Rules of InterviewJS Competition (“Official Rules”)
Eligibility:
The InterviewJS Competition (hereafter, “Contest”) is open to students of 18 years of age or older as of the date of Entry (as defined in Section 3.2) an who is currently enrolled at a university and in the process of completing a media studies, journalism, or communication course, Employees, officers, directors, agents and representatives of InterviewJS (“Sponsor”) and each of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, wholesalers, retailers, distributors, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies (hereafter collectively, “Released Parties”), and each such individual’s immediate family members (mother, father, sister, brother, child, husband, wife and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households, whether or not related, are not eligible to participate.
Promotion Period: 23rd November 2018 – 31st December 2018 Contest begins at 12:00:00 pm (noon) Arabian Standard Time (AST) on 23rd November 2018 and ends at 11:59:59 am (AST) on 31st December 2018 (hereafter, “Entry Period”).
Entry Conditions:
A contestant who submits an InterviewJS story pursuant to these Official Rules is deemed to have entered the Contest (“Entrant”).
During the Entry Period, contestants must submit an InterviewJS story. For the avoidance of doubt, participation in the Contest requires all Entrants to have submitted their story link with a valid email and made a InterviewJS story.
The winning Entrant must produce factual journalism content suitable for publication by a news publisher or online news platform.
Written consent from interviewees must be provided together with the interviewees full contact details.
Interviews for InterviewJS story must have been conducted within 24 months prior to the competition deadline.
If the entry is contains interviews conducted by the Entrant that have been previously published in another format by another publisher or on another platform the Entrant is required to submit written consent from the previous publisher to re-publication.
By entering the competitions Entrants agree to publication and promotion of the project by Al Jazeera Media Network.
In entering the competition, Entrants confirm that they are eligible to do so and eligible to claim any prize they may win. (The winner will be required to provide proof of enrollment.)
All Entries must be received by the deadline for the applicable Entry Period to be considered.
There is no charge for taking part in this competition.
There is no limit to the number of entries an Entrant can submit.
The Entrant’s submission of an Entry constitutes the Entrant’s consent to participate in this Contest and the Entrant’s consent for Sponsor to obtain, use and transfer the Entrant’s name, address and other information for the purpose of administering this Contest.
Any text included as part of an Entry must not:
be unlawful or promote any unlawful activity;
be considered inappropriate, defamatory, abusive, discriminatory, offensive, obscene, threatening, misleading or hateful (as determined by the Sponsor, in its absolute discretion);
be intended to harass another person or group of people;
include personal information of another person or persons, unless the Entrant has such person(s) consent;
contain viruses or corrupted files;
contain advertising or promotional materials.]
If the Entrant uses third party content in making the Entry, the Entrant must be able to provide proof of copyright clearance for third party photo/ video/ audio used in its Entry . If the winning Entrant argues fair use/ dealing Sponsor may ask its own media lawyers to review Entrant’s argument .
Incomplete or indecipherable Entries (deemed as such in Sponsor’s sole discretion) will be deemed invalid.
The Prize Manager reserves the right to ask Participants, after the
Closing Date and Time, for additional information to support their
Submissions and to facilitate assessment by the judges.
The use of script, macro or automated devices (or any other devices intended to automate or subvert any aspect of creating an Entry) to enter the Contest is prohibited and any Entry created through such means and any Entry that is deemed to be ineligible (at Sponsor’s sole discretion and in accordance with these Official Rules) shall be void.
Any non-compliance with the Official Rules shall render any Entry null and void.
General conditions:
All Entries become the exclusive property of the Sponsor and shall not be acknowledged or returned.
Released Parties shall have no responsibility of any nature for late, lost, stolen, incomplete, misdirected, delayed, garbled, damaged, inaccurate, or undelivered Entries; or for telephonic, human or computer failures, problems or errors, defects or delays in any transmission, interruptions in service due to system upgrades, repairs, modifications, maintenance or other causes, failures or malfunctions of connections, satellite, network, cable, Internet Service Provider (ISP), phones, phone lines or telephone systems, traffic congestion on the internet, technical or mechanical malfunctions, or other malfunctions or errors, whether caused by equipment, programming, human error or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing of Entries or emails, the announcement of the prizes, for any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer or other device relating to or resulting from participation in this Contest, or for printing, typographical, human or other errors appearing in these Official Rules or other Contest-related materials.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to void any Entries and disqualify such Entrants whom Sponsor believes (in its sole discretion) have attempted to tamper with or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of this Contest and/or who are in violation of these Official Rules.
Selection process and prizes:
Winner Selection:
There will be one main winner for the Contest. The winner will be selected among all valid Entries received during the Entry Period.
By entering, Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and to the decisions of the Sponsor and judges as designated by the Sponsor in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, which decision shall be final and binding in all respects.
Potential winners will be notified via email address provided by the Entrant, for the purposes of obtaining the winner’s full personal details, such as the winner’s full name, address, telephone number, date of birth and nationality.
The winner shall be entitled to one (1) prize which is a cash prize of 650 Euros.
Two runner-ups will have their stories published on https://www.aljazeera.com and/ or Interviewjs.io, subject to editorial discretion. The jury reserves the right to add and publish more runner-up InterviewJS stories but there will be only one cash prize.
The submissions will be judged entirely in the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Decisions by the Sponsor of the winning Entry is final and binding and cannot give rise to any dispute or claim by the winner or any third party, including any other Entrant in the Contest.
In the event a winner fails to respond within three (3) days of the notification by the Sponsor to the winner’s email account, such winner shall be deemed by the Sponsor as having relinquished their prize and subject to the Sponsor’s sole discretion another winner may be chosen or the prize not awarded.
If no submissions are submitted that the judges consider worthy of winning a prize then no prize will be awarded. The number of prizes awarded will not exceed the number of submissions that the judges consider worthy of winning prizes.
The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
General:
Under no circumstances is the transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of the prize (or any portion thereof) permitted, except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute, at any time, for any reason, the prize (or applicable portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion and except as otherwise provided herein.
A designated winner/ team of winners shall execute and return an email reply stating that their InterviewJS story is original and no one else than them is the maker of the story within 3 days of date of notification.
Non-compliance by an Entrant with any provision of these Official Rules may result in disqualification, at Sponsor’s sole discretion.
If a prize notification letter or prize is returned as undeliverable, the designated winner shall be disqualified.
By participating, Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and agree that:
Sponsor and any of its Released Parties may use (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) Entrant’s name, city and state of residence, photograph, any oral or written statements, footage, and/or likeness for advertising, trade and/or any other purposes in any media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity, without further compensation, permission or notification;
any Entrant in the Contest authorizes all verifications required by the Sponsor concerning the Entrant’s identity;
any indication of falsified, fraudulent, false, untruthful, incorrect or inexact identity or address of any Entrant, may, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, lead to that Entrant being disqualified from the Contest;
the Released Parties shall have no liability and shall be held harmless by the Entrant for any claims, demands, obligations, liability, suits, actions, proceedings, judgments, fines, losses, damages, penalties, charges, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees) in relation to the Entrant or any other person or entity, including, without limitation, personal injury or death to Entrant or any other person or damage to personal or real property, arising from or related to this Contest, or due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to (i) the acceptance, possession or use of the prize, (ii) any physical activity, travel or travel-related activity in relation to the Contest or participation in this Contest;
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, suspend, and/or terminate this Contest (or portion thereof) for any reason, including should virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Contest or for any other reason.
Deliberate damage:
Any attempt to deliberately damage the website or undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest may constitute (where applicable) a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages (including attorneys’ fees) and/or other remedies from any such person(s) responsible for the attempt to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any of its rights under these Official Rules, at any stage, does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
9. Ownership of competition entries and intellectual property rights
9.1 By making Submissions, Participants agree to grant Sponsor and the Prize Manager a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use the Entry Materials for any purpose.
9.2. Participants confirm and covenant that they have obtained all necessary consents (including from their employers, employees, consultants, agents and representatives) to enable them to fulfil their obligations in clause 3.16. including but not limited to those outlined in the entry conditions.
Data protection and publicity:
10.1 Winning Participants agree that the Prize Manager and Sponsor may use their names for any reasonable and related promotional purposes.
10.2 Winning Participants further agree to participate in any reasonable publicity required by the Prize Manager and/or Sponsor.
10.4 Candidates agree to promptly share with the Prize Manager any information relating to their Submission which may be requested by the Prize Manager at any point during the application process, including, but not limited to, financial accounts for the purposes of the Prize Manager’s due diligence processes
11. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution:
These Official Rules and any disputes or claims arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Qatar shall be finally determined under the exclusive jurisdiction of courts of the State of Qatar.
Sponsor: Al Jazeera Media Network, Doha, Qatar