AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards 2025 ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards 2025. Since their inception in 1945, the AAAS Science Journalism Awards have honored distinguished reporting on science by skilled journalists. The awards, an internationally acknowledged measure of excellence in science journalism, go to people (fairly than establishments, publishers or employers) for protection of the sciences, engineering and arithmetic.

In recognition of a beneficiant endowment in 2009 by The Kavli Foundation that ensured the way forward for this system, the awards are known as the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Kavli doubled the endowment in 2015, permitting AAAS for the primary time to make the competitors actually worldwide. All classes of the competitors at the moment are open to journalists doing work for unbiased information organizations across the globe.

Categories

• Science Reporting – Large Outlet: Text items in print or on-line from giant newspapers with a circulation of greater than 150,000 (largest single day, together with digital subscriptions) and digital-solely publications with a regional or nationwide viewers. Online-only information shops with 50 or extra employees workers are included on this class. An entry can embrace a themed collection (submit three components for judging) or as much as three associated or unrelated items mixed. Total of 5,000 phrases or much less.
• Science Reporting – Small Outlet: Text items in print or on-line from small newspapers with circulation of 150,000 or much less (largest single day, together with digital subscriptions) and digital-solely publications with an area viewers. Online-only information shops with fewer than 50 employees workers are included on this class. An entry can embrace a themed collection (submit three components for judging) or as much as three associated or unrelated items mixed. Total of 5,000 phrases or much less.
• Science Reporting – In-Depth: An entry of greater than 5,000 phrases for a newspaper, journal or on-line web site. Entry generally is a single story; submission of two or three associated or unrelated items as a single entry of greater than 5,000 phrases; or a themed collection of 5,000 phrases or extra (submit not more than three components for judging).
• Magazine: Stories in print magazines, on journal web sites or in digital-solely magazines. 5,000 phrases or much less. An entry can embrace as much as three associated or unrelated items, totaling not more than 5,000 phrases. Includes Sunday journal sections of newspapers.
• Video In-Depth Reporting: Segments or applications longer than 20 minutes. Includes stand-alone on-line movies.
• Video Spot News/Feature Reporting: Segments or applications totaling 20 minutes or much less. Includes stand-alone on-line movies.
• Audio: Radio or Podcast.
• Children’s Science News: Open to journalists working in any medium – print, broadcast or on-line – for excellence in reporting science information for youngsters, together with younger teenagers as much as age 14.

Benefits

• In every class, there are two awards: Gold, with a prize of $5,000, and Silver, with a prize of $3,500. The awards are offered every yr on the AAAS Annual Meeting in February. 

Eligibility

• Open to reporters doing work for unbiased information organizations around the globe.
• Articles should be readily accessible to the general public by subscription, newsstand gross sales or on-line entry. If the submitted work was revealed or broadcast in a language apart from English, you should present an English translation.

Application

The entry deadline for the 2025 contest is Friday, August 1, 2025. They encourage you to enter your greatest work for judging by your friends. There isn’t any entry price.

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For extra info, go to AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.