Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards 2025. The Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, now of their fifth yr, honor wonderful reporting on vital dimensions of the local weather story, from all through the world.

Entry submissions will cowl 14 topic based mostly classes. This helps elevate work on particular and necessary points of the local weather story — for instance, options, justice, and well being. They plan to honor a number of winners in every class, reflecting a spread of types, story lengths, outlet sizes, and geographic areas, to showcase the various methods journalists the world over explored comparable topics.

In addition to the topic-based mostly classes, they may honor work in a “Large projects & collaborations” class; their “Emerging Journalists of the Year” class will acknowledge early-profession journalists whose work exhibits distinctive promise; and, for the primary time, they’re accepting public entries for his or her “Journalists of the Year” award, given to 3 journalists who show exemplary dedication to the local weather story and whose work has had a transformative impression on the occupation.

Categories

• Solutions
• Justice
• Fossil fuels
• Extreme climate and its impacts
• Politics, coverage, and local weather motion
• Disinformation
• Business & economics
• International relations, together with COP29
• Global negotiations, together with COP28‎
• Conflict & local weather change
• Displacement & migration
• Forests, oceans, and the pure world
• Health
• Food & agriculture
• Climate in each beat
• Emerging Journalists of the Year
• Large initiatives & collaborations
• Journalists of the Year

Eligibility

• Submissions are accepted from journalists all over the place, representing information shops massive and small, in addition to freelancers. Outlets may submit a number of entries by completely different journalists.
• All eligible work should have been printed or broadcast in 2024. There are exceptions within the “Large projects & collaborations,” “Emerging Journalists,” and “Journalists of the Year” classes; entries in these classes could embody work from previous years or 2025 for as much as two of the 5 required items.
• Journalistic work in all mediums is eligible, together with however not restricted to writing, audio, video, images, multimedia, editorial cartoons, and information. All journalistic types are additionally eligible, together with however not restricted to breaking information, characteristic reporting, opinion/commentary, investigations, newsletters, and documentaries. We can’t settle for books or educational work.
• Submission entry data have to be supplied in English. If the unique work just isn’t in English, please present English-language translations along with the unique work as an attachment.
• Finally, tales have to be about local weather change, not simply the atmosphere. While all local weather tales are environmental tales, not all environmental tales are local weather tales. Stories that primarily deal with environmental points equivalent to poisonous air pollution or endangered species the place the impacts or root causes usually are not local weather change–associated are usually not thought of local weather tales, even when the tales could briefly point out local weather change. Environmental tales that do considerably contemplate local weather implications, equivalent to the results of deforestation on carbon storage, are eligible for submission.

Exceptional local weather storytelling that upholds the very best requirements of journalism. Great work could also be marked by any of the next qualities:

• Makes local weather change accessible for audiences, with tales rooted in science however not slowed down by it.
• Demonstrates the human dimensions of the local weather story.
• Holds energy to account and calls out disinformation and unethical conduct.
• Emphasizes the disproportionate impacts of local weather change on communities of shade, Indigenous peoples, the poor, girls, kids, and different marginalized folks.
• Examines options rising from all sectors of public life, together with coverage options and options stemming from neighborhood initiatives.
• Breaks local weather information out of the rut of partisan framing and demonstrates how the local weather emergency is a collective drawback that transcends partisan politics and different social fault strains.

Application

The deadline for accomplished entries is March 31, 2025, at 11:59pm US Eastern Time.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.