The Harbinger Prize 2023: BBC's Kasia Madera chairs the Reporting category

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    Kasia Madera is a BBC News presenter with over 20 years of broadcasting experience. A regular anchor of many of the BBC’s flagship programmes, at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kasia was one of the first international journalists to report live from the Poland-Ukraine border.

    She will chair the jury in the Reporting category of the Harbinger Prize 2023 competition, reviewing submitted essays and deciding — with Harbingers’ Magazine editors — which will be awarded the three winning places.

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    A regular anchor of many of the BBC’s flagship programmes, Kasia Madera was a continuous and reassuring on-air presence throughout the Covid pandemic.

    A BBC News presenter with over 20 years of broadcasting experience,  at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kasia was one of the first international journalists to report live from the Poland-Ukraine border. Of Polish heritage, Kasia is bilingual in Polish and was able to interview many refugees in a mixture of Polish and Ukrainian.

    More recently, Kasia anchored BBC News from the NATO summit in Madrid as well as played a role in the coverage of the UK’s mourning period for Queen Elizabeth II.

    Picture: Kasia Madera’s personal archive
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    The Harbinger Prize 2023: Reporting

    Submit an essay of up to 1,500 words on one of the subjects. Please remember that reporting is a form of journalism that requires finding a topic worthy of being written about – this is only possible by going out into the world and speaking with people. The best reporters are able to convey complex aspects of the human condition in a nutshell. For inspiration, you may want to read Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, or The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn.

    We will select three winning articles, with prizes worth £4,500 in education in journalism. Across all the submission categories, we will also select the best work of the year, which will crown the winner with The Harbinger Prize and £10,000 in individual tuition from The Oxford School for the Future of Journalism.

    The competition is open to all students in the last three years of pre-university education, regardless of their country of residence.

    Students have until noon on August 15, 2023, to submit their articles.

    Visit Harbingers’ Magazine for subject lines and all category descriptions.

    Visit The Harbinger Prize 2023 website for detailed Terms & Conditions.

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