Awards

The Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) annually recognizes excellence in covering Indian Country by Indigenous and non-Indigenous journalists across the U.S. and Canada, including students. Deadline: Mar 22, 2024.

NABJ recognizes journalism that best covers the Black experience or addresses issues affecting the worldwide Black community. Many categories include a specialty for environment/health/medical issues. Deadline: Feb 15, 2025.

The Livingston Awards, for excellence by professionals under the age of 35, judge print, online, video, audio and data visualization entries. Three $10,000 prizes for local, national and international reporting. Deadline is Feb 1, 2025.

Awards are given for outstanding coverage that positively impacts the critical issues of hunger, poverty and self-reliance. Enter by February 24, 2011 deadline.

CAJ recognizes outstanding Canadian reporting — with a particular focus on investigative work. Cash prizes are offered in several categories, including Photojournalism, Environmental and Climate Change, Emerging Indigenous Journalist, FOI Journalism, Data Journalism, Student and more. Deadline: Jan 14, 2025.

These annual awards honor several classes of foreign affairs reporting with certificates and $1,000 awards. $200 entry fee. Cornelius Ryan Book Award Deadline: Jan 8, 2025. General Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.

These awards include several categories of interest to environmental journalists, including one for environmental reporting. Cash prizes. Entry fees apply for most categories. Deadline: Feb 5, 2024.

Sponsored by the American Geophysical Union, the Perlman and Sullivan awards annually recognize excellence in Earth and space science news and features reporting, respectively, each with a $5,000 prize. The Cowen Award celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on Earth and space sciences (awarded every other year). Nominations due Mar 27, 2024.

This News Challenge is an opportunity to accelerate promising ideas and trends. Through this contest, we hope to help extend the spirit of open gov and to catalyze partnerships between hackers, civic innovators, governments, journalists and others. Closes April 5th.