Amnesty International Canada Media Awards 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 30, 2025

Nominations are open for the thirtieth Annual Amnesty International Canada Media Awards 2025. First handed out in 1996, the Media Awards acknowledge excellence in human rights reporting by Canada-based journalists and Canadian journalists reporting overseas.

Past winners embrace a number of the most celebrated Canadian reporters of the previous three a long time, such because the CBC’s Ana Maria Tremonti and former Globe and Mail international correspondent Stephanie Nolen, as properly impartial and scholar journalists whose excellent work elevated them to the nationwide stage.

Categories

• National Written News Story: National information story of roughly 3,500 phrases or much less on present or breaking information referring to human rights points.
• Long-Form Video: Documentary or present affairs segments with a runtime of 10-80 minutes referring to a human rights situation. 
• Mixed Media: Online tales that includes not less than three parts: textual content, pictures, video, audio, animation and information visualization. 3,500-phrase most.
• Short-Form Video: Filmed information tales with a most runtime of not than 10 minutes highlighting a human rights situation. 
• Long-Form Radio: Radio documentaries or present affairs packages with a most runtime of roughly 80 minutes highlighting a human rights situation.
• Long-Form Podcast: Podcast episodes with a most runtime of roughly 80 minutes highlighting a human rights situation.
• Local/Alternative Media: Current affairs or breaking information tales of three,500 phrases or much less referring to a human rights situation. Alternative media denotes publications that aren’t main personal or publicly funded media retailers.*
• Post-Secondary Youth: Text, audio, video or blended media tales by put up-secondary college college students in Canada a couple of human rights situation. It should be printed or broadcast by a media outlet related to a put up-secondary establishment.

*Alternative publications typically have mandates to spotlight tales and views which can be neglected or underrepresented within the mainstream press.

Eligibility

• Entries should have been printed or broadcast in Canada between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.
• Nominations are open in a number of classes, with a most of three whole submissions per particular person.
• Journalists might nominate their very own work or that of others (with categorical written permission).

Selection Criteria

A distinguished jury will consider entries based mostly on journalistic excellence, depth of storytelling, amplification of voices on the coronary heart of the difficulty, and the framing of answer.

Nomination

Submissions are open till 11:59 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 30, 2025.

Click here to nominate

For extra data, go to Amnesty International Canada Media Awards.