Sigma Awards 2025 for Data Journalism ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the Sigma Awards 2025. The Sigma Awards is a contest to have a good time the most effective information journalism from world wide. Striding into its fifth 12 months, it’s additionally right here to empower, elevate and enlighten the worldwide neighborhood of information journalists.

The worldwide information journalism neighborhood is going through many challenges, they usually wish to assist them. They wish to carry collectively a neighborhood, and assist these working with information, whether or not it’s on local weather change or worldwide conflicts – as a result of that’s one of many priorities for their neighborhood for the time being – or on every other topic. As with earlier editions, the award will preserve its no-class rule and may have specialists in information journalism from world wide constituting its jury and prize committee.

Prize

• A US$5,000 money prize can be break up amongst the winners, who will every get a certificates appropriate for framing. The jury members will determine on the most effective work total and are available to a consensus on easy methods to divide the money prize.

Eligibility

• Entries have to be for information tasks printed within the 2024 calendar 12 months (between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024).
• Applicants can enter as many tasks as they need.
• Entries need to specify in the event that they qualify as a big or a small newsroom or as a person, the place relevant. Small newsrooms are outlined as these with 35 or fewer journalists (together with common freelancers/contractors), or equal (e.g, two half-time freelancers depend as one individual.)
• Organizations that don’t qualify beneath this definition however who imagine they belong within the small newsroom class could petition for an exception by sending a letter from the editor-in-chief explaining his or her rationale to [email protected].
• Collaborative work must be entered as a big newsroom.

Application

The deadline to enter is February 28, 2025 at 23:59 US ET.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Sigma Awards.