African Fact-Checking Awards 2025 (up to $3,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 7, 2025

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

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

Awards

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

Eligibility

To be eligible, entries for this competitors should:

• Be the unique work of the person or workforce recognized within the entry kind because the creator.
• Expose a declare on an essential matter that originated in or is related to Africa as deceptive or incorrect.
• Be an unique piece of truth-checking journalism first revealed or broadcast on any date from 1 May 2024 to 7 June 2025.

Judging Criteria

Entries are judged based mostly 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 truth-checked.
• Testing: How was the declare examined towards the out there proof? Fact-checkers should take an extended, laborious take a look at the declare/assertion that was made. Fact-checking entails rigorously sifting by the publicly out there proof for and towards the declare. This must be completed in a method that’s truthful to the individual or establishment who made the declare and strict in assessing the proof.
• Presentation: How effectively does the piece current the proof for and towards the declare? truth-checking report is structured in such a method that it’s comprehensible and makes the subject accessible to the widest attainable public.
• Impact: The influence that the fact-check had on public debate on the subject. Did it lead to a correction, did it have vital attain, or was it shared by different organisations or members of the media, as an example?

Application

Entries shut at midnight GMT on June 7, 2025. Late entries won’t be accepted.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to African Fact-Checking Awards.