David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—News 2026 ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: April 19, 2026

Applications are open for the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—News 2026. The David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism—News acknowledges excellence in science information reporting produced beneath deadline stress. It is called for the late David Perlman, longtime science editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.

This award acknowledges excellence in reporting a information story or collection that meets a number of of the next standards: Brings new data or ideas about AGU sciences to the general public’s consideration, identifies and corrects misconceptions about AGU sciences, or makes AGU sciences accessible and fascinating to common audiences with out sacrificing accuracy.

Award

Recipients obtain the next:

• A $5,000 prize
• An engraved award
• Recognition in Eos
• Recognition at AGU’s annual assembly the 12 months the distinction is awarded
• Paid journey bills as much as $1,000
• Two tickets to the Honors Banquet at AGU’s annual assembly the 12 months the distinction is awarded
• Note: As members of the press, awardees additionally obtain complimentary registration to AGU’s Annual Meeting

Eligibility

• Nominations are open to journalists working in any medium, besides books.
• A nominee have to be the writer of the submitted story. In the case of collaborative efforts, these concerned should decide who’s or are the nominee(s) as much as 4 folks, which might embrace contributors to the audio and visible side of the entry. Story components (e.g., images, graphics, video) won’t be thought-about in judging if their creators should not nominated.
• The nominee have to be an writer who’s employed in one the next arenas:
  • Print or digital information publication,
  • Broadcast or cable station, or broadcast community
  • Freelance journalist.
• An individual or group could also be nominated or might self-nominate for each the Perlman and Sullivan awards in one 12 months. But no particular person or group is permitted to win each awards in the identical 12 months.
• Nominees who’ve gained the Perlman Award throughout the previous two award cycles should not eligible to enter a nomination for the Perlman Award for the present award cycle. (i.e., the 2024 and 2025 Perlman Award recipients should not eligible for the 2026 award.)

Entries

• Eligible entries will need to have been first printed between 1 January and 31 December of the 12 months previous to the award 12 months (i.e., will need to have been first printed between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025 to be eligible for the 2026 award).
• Eligible entries will need to have been supposed for, and accessible to, most of the people.
• Entries have to be in English (or embrace an English translation).
• A nominee might submit just one entry for the award in a given 12 months. If a nominee has a number of entries, AGU employees will contact the nominee to make clear which story they’d choose to advance to judging.
• Eligible information tales should focus on a number of of the scientific disciplines represented by AGU. Click here for a full itemizing. Please observe: Policy-focused tales with out a substantial dialogue of the science behind the coverage are ineligible. Email them at [email protected] in case you have questions relating to this criterion.
• If every phase of a collection was recognized on the time of publication as being part of the collection, the collection is eligible to be judged as one entry. Alternatively, protection of an ongoing exercise, resembling a scientific society assembly or a pure occasion, could be thought to be a collection. However, not more than three segments of any collection could also be submitted for judging.

Nomination

Click here to nominate

For extra data, go to David Perlman Award.