Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism 2026 ($5,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: June 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism 2026. The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) invites freelance journalists, native reporters and information fixers from world wide to submit entries for the twenty fifth annual Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism.

The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund was arrange in reminiscence of American journalist Kurt Schork, who was killed in a army ambush whereas reporting in Sierra Leone in 2000. It exists to maintain the world conscious of the debt we owe to courageous journalists who interact in brave reporting of battle, corruption, injustice and human rights transgressions.

The annual Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism honour the work of freelance journalists, native reporters and information fixers in creating nations or nations in transition, whose work is usually poorly paid, largely unsung and regularly fraught with hazard.

Categories

The three award classes, open to these reporting for print and on-line publications, recognise the media professionals that Kurt significantly admired:

• Freelance Award: recognising freelance journalists who journey to the world’s battle zones, normally at nice private danger, to witness and report on the affect and penalties of those occasions.
• Local Reporter Award: recognising the customarily-ignored work of journalists in creating nations, or nations in transition, who write about occasions in their homeland.
• News Fixer Award: recognising the work of native journalists or specialists, usually employed by overseas correspondents, whose steering and native information play an unsung however very important position in facilitating worldwide protection from troublesome, harmful or hostile places.

Awards

• The Awards recognise excellence and braveness in reporting battle, corruption, injustice and human rights points, with winners receiving a $5,000 money prize.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists from world wide.
• Entrants for the Local Reporter and Freelance Awards should submit three articles every, printed between June 01, 2025 and June 14, 2026. The judges will search for journalistic excellence in candidates’ submissions and proof of willpower and braveness in acquiring their tales.

Application

Click on the award and apply:

For extra data, go to Kurt Schork Awards.