GIJN Global Shining Light Award 2025 (Win $2,500 & a trip to Kuala Lumpur) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are open for the GIJN Global Shining Light Award 2025. Every two years, the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) presents the Global Shining Light Award, a distinctive award which honors investigative journalism in a growing or transitioning nation, finished beneath risk, duress, or within the direst of situations.

Each yr dozens of journalists and media employees are killed – and a whole bunch extra are attacked, imprisoned or threatened – only for doing their job. Many of those violations of free expression happen in growing or rising nations, and very often throughout army conflicts. There are a variety of worldwide awards recognizing such assaults on freedom of expression.

But there may be one other clear development that emerges in analyses of world assaults on reporters and the media. More and extra journalists are being killed, and media shops attacked, as a result of they’re finishing up essential efforts in investigative journalism – exposing uncomfortable truths, shining mild on systematic corruption, and offering accountability in societies craving for democracy and growth. More journalists are killed every year protecting corruption and politics than are killed protecting wars, in accordance to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

On behalf of the worldwide investigative journalism group, GIJN is happy to acknowledge and have fun these brave investigative journalists and their work.

Categories

There are two award classes:

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

Award

• Top winners will obtain an honorary plaque, US$2,500, and a trip to the 2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to settle for the award in entrance of a whole bunch of their colleagues from world wide.

Eligibility

The journalist, journalism group, or media outlet could 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 problem, 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.

Application

The submission deadline is February 28, 2025. Late submissions is not going to be accepted.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Global Shining Light Award.