Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) Awards 2025 ($5,000 cash prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Applications are invited for the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) Awards 2025. The Awards recognise excellence and braveness in reporting battle, corruption, injustice and human rights points. The Committee to Protect Journalists stories the variety of journalists killed in 2024 reached report highs. As ranges of violence and intimidation in opposition to media professionals surge, this recognition stays as important as ever.

Named in reminiscence of American freelance journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed in 2000 whereas on task for Reuters in Sierra Leone, the Awards recognise the bravery of journalists who take nice private threat, usually for little reward, to shine a lightweight on the reality and maintain energy to account.

Categories

The three award classes, open to these reporting for print and on-line publications, recognise the media professionals that Kurt significantly admired:

• Freelance Award: recognising freelance journalists who journey to the world’s battle zones, often at nice private threat, to witness and report on the affect and penalties of those occasions.
• Local Reporter Award: recognising the usually-ignored work of journalists in creating nations, or nations in transition, who write about occasions of their homeland.
• News Fixer Award: recognising the work of native journalists or specialists, sometimes employed by international correspondents, whose steerage and native information play an unsung however important function in facilitating worldwide protection from tough, harmful or hostile places.

Award

• The Awards recognise excellence and braveness in reporting battle, corruption, injustice and human rights points, with winners receiving a $5,000 cash prize.

Eligibility

• Open to freelance journalists, native reporters and information fixers from world wide.
• Entrants for the Local Reporter and Freelance Awards should submit three articles every, printed between June 01, 2024 and June 15, 2025. The judges will search for journalistic excellence in candidates’ submissions and proof of willpower and braveness in acquiring their tales.
• News Fixer Award candidates should submit three references from international correspondents with whom they’ve labored throughout the identical time interval.

Application

Apply for the:

For extra data, go to KSMF.