The Sander Thoenes Prize is an annual award given in memory of the former Jakarta correspondent of the Financial Times, who was killed in East Timor on 21 September 1999

The prize consists of a three-month internship at the FT’s headquarters in London and its Brussels bureau with a bursary of £5,250 to cover accommodation and living expenses.

The aim is to help broaden the international perspective of aspiring foreign correspondents, in particular those from the emerging democracies of Asia, Africa, Latin America and eastern Europe. Applicants must be recent graduates working in journalism. Applications are welcome from all parts of the world but applicants should be fluent in spoken and written English. Preference will be given to those with a proven interest in political and economic development issues.

Applications should consist of a curriculum vitae, two references, an unpublished original article of no more than 600 words on an issue relevant to emerging democracies, plus copies of two published articles or an academic essay. Candidates should send a short covering letter of no more than 400 words explaining how they feel they would benefit from winning the prize.

Applications for the 2010 prize should reach Joanna Rollo, Deputy Managing Editor, Financial Times, One Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL, UK, by 1 April 2010.

Please mark the envelope with the following code number: STP/FT2010