Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award 2025. The Young Journalist Award has given a lift to some sensible journalists through the years, every one among them demonstrating a wealthy tapestry of investigative journalism, exposing social points and holding energy to account.

The annual competitors is organised in partnership with the UK’s Foreign Press Association (FPA) and is offered at their annual awards occasion in London. The competitors allows journalists aged 30 and below, from nations with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of lower than USD20,000, to ship of their greatest tales to be examined by the judges.

Benefits

• The three finalists are flown to London to attend the gala award evening in London, together with a number of different potential award winners and main figures from the world of journalism.

Eligibility

• Entrants have to be 30 years of age or below on 24 November 2025.
• Each entrant ought to submit a portfolio of THREE revealed or broadcast items of labor produced within the 12 months previous 1 August 2025 (the 12 months previous to the deadline for submissions).
• For the aim of this competitors the “developing world” is outlined as nations with a Gross National Income (GNI) of USD20,000 or much less. Entrants ought to be from a rustic that meets the GNI standards and reporting from/in that nation or, if not of their nation of origination, out of the country becoming the identical GNI standards.
• The entries for the Young Journalist Award could be in any format: print, audio, video, multimedia, or a mix of all 4. Applicants can present URL hyperlinks to their tales on-line. If obligatory, they’ll use a file-sharing platform resembling Google Drive for scans or PDFs of print articles, and for giant audio or video information. A written assertion of not more than 200 phrases per story giving a abstract of the content material and any influence it had on public debate within the nation of publication or broadcast, must also be submitted.
• Entries could be in any language however ought to be accompanied by a verbatim English-language translation.
• Entrants ought to present a proof of any collaboration undertaken with colleagues or exterior organisations on the tales that they’ve submitted.

Application

Entries ought to be accompanied by a letter from the applicant’s present editor, on headed firm notepaper verifying that it’s the revealed work of the entrant. Where an entrant is freelance, or self-employed, verification could be offered by an editor from one of many publications/web sites/broadcasters the place the work appeared, or by a journalism educational acquainted with the work of the entrant.

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For extra data, go to Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award.