Data Journalism Awards Competition 2019
Applicant criteria
- More than 18 year
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards recognizing outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide. It honors excelling work in the field of data journalism of new organizations, media companies, individuals and freelance journalists who are all eligible to enter the Data Journalism Awards. Works that are the result of a collaboration between news organizations may also be submitted, provided they serve a journalistic purpose.
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Award
This year’s prize is an all expenses covered trip to Athens, Greece, and the GEN Summit + Data Journalism Awards 2019 ceremony taking place on 13-15 June 2019.
Eligibility
- work produced by journalists in partnership with government agencies, businesses or trade organizations with a stake – financial or otherwise – in the issue at hand are not eligible.
- business data visualizations or projects produced for branding purposes are not eligible.
Requirements
- All submission forms must be filled in English. Entries in languages other than English can be accepted provided that they are accompanied by thorough explanations of the work in English and a translation if possible.
- Words included in graphics, databases and web applications must also be translated.
- Radio material must be transcribed in English and video material must contain English subtitles.
- Entries may have been published on any other media platform: online, radio, audio, broadcast, print or a combination of platforms.
- Applicants can submit multiple entries, but only one entry per category.
- All work must have been published or aired between 26 March 2018 and 7 April 2019.
There are no submission fees.
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About
The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide that started in 2012. The competition is organised by the Global Editors Network, with support from the Google News Lab, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and in partnership with Chartbeat and Microsoft. The awards celebrate the best in data-driven investigations, stories, websites, visualizations, news applications and projects that shed light on topics of public interest. They also recognize individuals and teams that have done exceptional work in the field.