African Fact-Checking Awards 2025 for Journalistic Excellence in Africa (USD7,000+ in Prizes)

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Application Deadline:  7 June 2025. 

Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards programme honouring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, at the moment are open to journalists, journalism college students, {and professional} fact-checkers – throughout the continent.

Requirements

To qualify, entries should have been first revealed or broadcast in the interval from 1 May 2024 to 7 June 2025. The fact-check ought to conclude {that a} declare about an necessary matter, originating in or related to Africa, is both deceptive or improper. 

The awards have three classes, with honours going to a winner and a runner-up. The classes are:

• Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist 
• Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker
• Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist

Benefits

• The winners of the working journalist {and professional} fact-checker classes will every get a prize of US$3,000.
• The runners-up will obtain $1,500.
• The winner of the scholar journalist class will likely be awarded $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000. 

Entries are judged primarily based on the next standards:

Significance

The significance for wider society of the declare/assertion investigated. How a lot does the subject matter to society at giant and the way severe might the implications be if the declare wasn’t fact-checked

Testing

How was the declare examined in opposition to the accessible proof? Fact-checkers should take an extended, laborious have a look at the declare/assertion that was made. Fact-checking entails rigorously sifting by the publicly accessible proof for and in opposition to the declare. This needs to be finished in a manner that’s honest to the individual or establishment who made the declare and strict in assessing the proof

Presentation

How properly does the piece current the proof for and in opposition to the declare? An excellent fact-checking report is structured in such a manner that it’s comprehensible and makes the subject accessible to the widest potential public.

Impact

The affect that the fact-check had on public debate on the subject. Did it result in a correction, did it have important attain, or was it shared by different organisations or members of the media, for occasion?

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the African Fact-Checking Awards