Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025. In tribute to the legacy of Eglantyne Jebb, and to mark the a hundredth anniversary of the League of Nations’ adoption of the Declaration of the rights of a child, Save the Children proudly launched its Global Media Awards in 2024 to have a good time excellence in journalism that champions child rights.

Now in its second yr, Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025 proceed to honour skilled journalists from round the world whose storytelling has performed a pivotal position in uncovering, highlighting, and addressing crucial child rights points. They goal to showcase the energy of media to drive consciousness, encourage motion, and spark optimistic change for kids in all places.

This yr, the awards will acknowledge excellent work throughout a number of classes, together with:

• Print (on-line and print)
• Broadcast
• Radio / Podcast
• Photography

Prize

• Winners will obtain a personalised certificates and be invited to attend a Save the Children worldwide press journey or programme go to.
• All shortlist finalists will obtain a personalised certificates.

Eligibility

• Open to all skilled journalists aged 18 and over, besides:
  • people (and their companions and household) concerned in the judging of the competitors; or staff of any Save the Children workplace or a Trustee of the Save the Children.
• Entries have to be unique and revealed/broadcast in a nationwide, regional or worldwide media outlet between 31 August 2024 and 1 July 2025.
• Entrants could take part in a single or each classes, however will solely be awarded in a single class.
• All submissions should clearly determine who the creator is and which media outlet they symbolize.
• All entries have to be submitted in English or unique textual content be accompanied with an English translation.
• Participating journalists should submit a letter from the media outlet certifying that the piece was revealed of their outlet and certifying the date of publication of the piece.
• All images entered have to be the results of photographic course of utilizing a digicam.
• Submissions have to be journalistically moral, should not put youngsters in danger, and should respect the dignity of kids.
• Winners of earlier Save the Children Global Media Awards are usually not eligible to win once more.

Selection Criteria

• Relevance:
  • Compelling Storytelling: Expose a child rights subject or highlights youngsters taking motion for optimistic change by means of compelling storytelling.
  • Fresh Perspective: Introduce a child rights subject to the outlet’s audiences, both for the first time or in a contemporary and revolutionary means.
  • Engaging and Appropriate: Be participating and applicable for the supposed viewers.
• Children’s Voices and Safeguarding
  • Inclusion of Child Voices: Include case research, first-hand accounts, or testimonials from youngsters (or their dad and mom / guardians) to amplify their voices and supply a human perspective.
  • Adherence to Child Safeguarding: Comply with child safeguarding requirements and moral reporting practices, making certain the rights of kids concerned weren’t compromised and their dignity and privateness revered.
  • Balanced and Fair: Demonstrate neutral, goal, and unbiased reporting on child rights points.
• Impact and Innovation:
  • Further Media Coverage: If the piece resulted in extra media protection on the child rights
  • Demonstrable Impact: Evidence of optimistic change for kids, comparable to modifications in coverage or legislation, or proof of a optimistic affect on the lives of these whose tales have been advised.
  • Recognition of Creativity: Awards can be given to entries that display revolutionary and inventive approaches to storytelling, capturing audiences’ consideration and bringing consciousness to crucial child rights subjects.

Application

You can be requested to submit your entries in considered one of the following methods:

• by importing recordsdata ideally as PDF, JPG, MP3 or MP4 to our viewing platform.
• For video, please submit a hyperlink to your individual viewing platform (eg: vimeo/youtube).

Each entry must be submitted together with the following info:

• Synopsis and affect assertion.
• Credits for as much as three (3) individuals linked with the entry in the description.
• A letter from the media outlet certifying that the piece was revealed of their outlet and certifying the date of publication of the piece.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Save the Children’s Global Media Awards.