This award seeks to popularise climate-related reporting by promoting and recognising exceptional journalism that adopts innovative or original story telling on climate-related issues.
Stories can be submitted in five categories and winners will each receive a cash prize of €2,000. The Award is managed by the European Journalism Centre, in partnership with Google News Initiative.
Print, online, video, and multi-platform storytelling formats are eligible to win an award and these may have been published behind a paywall. You can enter more than one submission but with a maximum of two categories per submission.
Categories
- Data: Climate change reporting that relies on data analysis.
- Storytelling & solutions: Novel and solutions-focused storytelling methods for communicating climate change stories.
- Visualisations: Making climate stories comprehensible and engaging for the audience by utilising data and scientific information in a visual representation.
- Investigative reporting: Reporting that holds those in power accountable for their actions and their impact on climate change.
- Emerging talent: Innovative climate reporting produced by journalists and newsrooms with less than three years of experience.
Eligibility criteria
Journalists or teams are required to meet the following criteria:
✓ The submitted piece must address one or more topics related to climate change and its effects;
✓ The submitted piece must have been published in or on a European-based media outlet;
✓ The submitted piece must have been published in the past 12 months (14 June 2022 – 13 June 2023).
Click here to apply
https://grant.ejc.net/s/login/?ec=302&startURL=%2Fs%2Fclimate-journalism-award-application
Deadline
17 July 2023
