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The Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity is an award presented to a South African media practitioner in newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and online print media and who's reporting celebrates freedom of speech and media integrity. ==History== The award is named in honour of a black South African journalist and writer Nat Nakasa. Nat Nakasa was born in outside Durban in 1937. After leaving school at seventeen and after many jobs, he was employed a year later as a junior reporter at the ''Ilanga Lase Natal'', a Zulu language weekly. After attracting the attention of Sylvester Stein of the ''Drum'' magazine, he joined the magazine in 1957.〔 He and the other journalists writings at the ''Drum'' were influenced by the ''Suppression of Communism Act, 1950'' and had to show the effects of Apartheid indirectly on black lives without condemning it directly for fear of been banned from practicing journalism.〔 In 1961, he had an article entitled ''The Human Meaning of Apartheid'' for ''The New York Times''.〔 In 1963, he announced the formation of a quarterly literary magazine called ''The Classic'', a magazine in English for black intellectual writers and poets from around Africa.〔 It first published in June 1963 and would feature writers such as Doris Lessing and Leopold Senghor and would later be edited by writer Barney Simon.〔 In 1963, the ''Publications and Entertainment Act'' was passed which allowed the South African government broad powers to ban or censor content it deemed unfavorable to the interest of the country, further hindering Nakasa's work as he attempted to stay within the law.〔 In 1964, Nakasa applied for a Nieman Fellowship, a journalism program at Harvard University, which was accepted for 1965 intake.〔 At the same time, Allister Sparks, editorial page editor of the white anti-apartheid newspaper the ''Rand Daily Mail'' invited Nakasa to write a black perspective column for the paper.〔 On accepting a Nieman Fellowship, Nakasa applied for a passport, but like many other black intellectuals, was refused and would have to accept a exit permit instead which meant relinquishing his citizenship and not being allowed to return to South Africa.〔 Unbeknown to Nakasa, the South African police had been monitoring him since 1959 and were about to issue him with a five year banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act when left for the United States in October 1964.〔 While attending the Nieman Fellowship, he participated in protest meetings against Apartheid at Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Washington DC and unsuccessfully attempted again to write an article for ''The New York Times''.〔 He completed his Nieman Fellowship at the end of June 1965, by which time he was short of money and his attempted to extend his visa beyond August seemed unsuccessful.〔 Now living in Harlem, Nakasa seemed homesick, unable to return to South Africa, unsettled and drinking, he became depressed.〔 On 14 July 1965, he committed suicide when he jumped from his friends seven story apartment.〔 The award calls for nominations each May for a prize of R20,000 and a certificate. The nominees are accessed by an independent panel of three judges who choose the winner. The award is presented by SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) at an award dinner ceremony in July. The award was first presented in 1998. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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