Call for Entries: Voices Awards 2026 (€1,200 prize) – YOA

Deadline: January 12, 2026

Entries are invited for the Voices Awards 2026. The Voices Awards are a world competitors rewarding revolutionary concepts and changemakers within the fields of journalism and media freedom. The Voices Awards are organised throughout the Voices Festival, an itinerant occasion co-funded by the European Union to rejoice Journalism and Media Freedom in Europe.

The Voices Awards purpose to rejoice the range of up to date journalism and comprehensively cowl the totally different media and codecs that journalists make use of to successfully convey their tales. The Awards may even recognise media literacy initiatives and worldwide finest practices in journalism. Proposals are welcome for initiatives that deal with urgent public points, expose wrongdoing, contribute to higher transparency and accountability of these in energy (investigative journalism, explanatory journalism, native and neighborhood journalism, information journalism, human rights journalism, public service journalism and so on.).

Categories

The Voices Awards comprise the next seven classes:

• Radio & Podcast Journalism Award (4 awards)
• Video & Documentary Journalism Award (4 awards)
• Digital Storytelling and Social Media Award (4 awards)
• Cartoons Award (4 awards)
• Photojournalism Award (4 awards)
• Media Literacy Award (4 awards)
• Lorenzo Natali Prize – International Best Practices in Journalism (1 award)

Prize

• The Voices Awards will rejoice 25 outstanding achievements, every with a €1,200 financial prize. This quantity is meant to cowl each the prize cash and the mandatory journey and lodging bills for the winner to attend the Voices Festival in Florence on 10 – 12 March 2026, the place the awardees might be publicly introduced.

Eligibility

• Applicants could also be pure individuals or authorized entities (public or personal our bodies).
• Entries could also be submitted by any of the next candidates:
  • media retailers;
  • freelance journalists;
  • college students at journalism colleges;
  • trainee journalists;
  • people or teams energetic in media literacy actions.
• In order to be eligible, the candidates should be legally residing or be established within the 27 EU Member States, candidate nations and potential candidates: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
• Only for the Lorenzo Natali Prize – International finest practices in journalism (class 7): as a way to be eligible, entries should be submitted by candidates legally residing or be established outdoors the EU27.
• Entries should deal with present information and public affairs content material, demonstrating a transparent emphasis on content material of public curiosity and democratic relevance.
• The candidates should submit publicly accessible outputs (or works) produced within the 12 months previous to the publication of this name for entries.

Application

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 PM (CET) on 12 January 2026.

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For extra data, go to Voices Awards.