AAP Media Professionals' Award

The AAP offers an occasional award of $500 to journalists and other media professionals for excellence in the presentation of philosophy or philosophical issues in the media. The main criterion for the award of the prize is the ability of the piece to engage the interest of the general public in philosophy or some philosophical issue. Consideration is also given to the quality of the philosophical discussion and to the size of the audience reached.

Conditions
Entries/nominations for piece(s) published in 2011 must be received by the Executive Officer no later than 30th March 2012. Entries/nominations for the Media Prize may come from the author or from others.

Entries may be submitted in either hard or electronic copy:

• In both cases evidence must be provided of the original place of publication and entries must be accompanied by full publication details (date, place, etc).
• If evidence of the original place of publication cannot be provided in electronic copy, then a hard copy of the entries should be provided.
• If entries are supplied in hard copy, then three copies (3) of the entry should be submitted.
• Entries consisting of a lengthy portfolio of items should submit the best one or two and list the remainder.

The AAP Media Professionals' Award is offered no more than once each year, and may not be made every year. It may not be awarded to one person more than once in any three year period.

Recipients of the AAP Media Professionals' Award

2008	Natasha Mitchell, host and producer of ABC Radio National Program, All in the Mind, for the program 'The Mind-Body Problem Downunder'. The program, broadcast originally on 23 September 2006, as part ABC's Radio National's The Big 56 Celebrations, was on the "Australian materialism" movement inaugurated by Ullin Place and Jack Smart in 1956.
2007	Alan Saunders for his ABC Radio National program The Philosopher's Zone. Since the program's inception in 2005, Alan has interviewed many Australasian philosophers on a wide variety of topics.

The AAP Media Professionals' Award is sponsored by Taylor and Francis, the publishers of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.