The Global Investigative Journalism Network Global Shining Light Award 2025 (US$2,500 cash prize and funded trip to the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

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Application Deadline: February 28, 2025.

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Network Global Shining Light Award. Every two years, the Global Investigative Journalism Network presents the Global Shining Light Award, a singular award which honors investigative journalism in a growing or transitioning nation, accomplished below risk, duress, or within the direst of circumstances. For the 2025 version, the award is open to tales printed or broadcast between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024.

Requirements

The journalist, journalism staff, or media outlet may have produced unbiased, investigative reporting, which:

• Originated in and affected a Global South nation;
• Was broadcast or printed between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024;
• Was of an investigative nature;
• Uncovered a difficulty, wrongdoing, or system of corruption which gravely affected the widespread good;
• And did so within the face of arrest, imprisonment, violence towards them and their households, or threats and intimidation.

Award Categories

• Small and Medium Outlets (organizations with employees of 20 or much less, together with freelancers)
• Large Outlets (organizations with greater than 20 employees)

Prize:

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Global Investigative Journalism Network Global Shining Light Award