Travellers' Digest Touring Award

The Travellers' Digest Touring Award is an outstanding journalism award offered by the Travellers' Digest every seven years.

• It is an award for interstellar journalism.
• It is a form of Media Prize

Description (Specifications)

The recipient, who must be a professional journalist living and working "behind the claw", is given honorary membership in the Travellers' Aid Society (worth 1 million credits); he is then expected to travel through the region during the tenure of his award, and to submit a feature article about his latest journey once every thirteen weeks. The intent of the Digest with this award is to "promote understanding of the cultural diversity within the Imperium".

A new contest is announced five years after the previous award, with the new winner informed in time for him to travel to the award ceremony on Deneb two years later.

History & Background (Dossier)

Winners: In 1100, the Senior Assistant Editor of the Mora World Review, Akidda Laagiir, won for his piece 'The Imperial Frontier: The Next Millenium'.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Joe Fugate, Gary L. Thomas. The Early Adventures (Digest Group Publications, 1988), 11.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science