Student media awards

New mental health category in the Smedia awards.

Calling all budding journalists! Have you produced a media piece about mental health or suicide prevention in Ireland or do you intend to produce such a piece?  

If so, you may be in with a chance of winning the Headline award for mental health or suicide prevention in the 2008 3Smedia Awards.

Headline is sponsoring a new category in this year’s 3 Smedia (student media) awards.  The Headline award for mental health or suicide prevention will be awarded to any form of media, be it written, published or broadcasted on television, radio, internet or otherwise, highlighting the issue of mental health or suicide prevention in Ireland.  Entries can cover any aspect of mental health or suicide prevention.  

More information on the Smedia awards and how to enter can be found on the Smedia website: http://www.oxygen.ie/page/263.

Headline is the national media monitoring programme for mental health and suicide, working to promote responsible and accurate coverage of these issues in the Irish media.  For more information on Headline and reporting on mental health and suicide relates issues check out www.headline.ie.