DEADLINE: Global Youth & News Media Prize

The biennial Global Youth & News Media Prize, begun in 2018, honors organizations that innovate as they strengthen engagement between news media and the young while reinforcing the role of journalism in society. In short, we celebrate and encourage news media work that serves, supports and both attracts and learns from young audiences. The 2021 edition features the Journalism Award: Pandemic News for Children Award and The Planet Award, for reporting or initiatives that effectively provide young audiences with information and hope for saving the planet. In 2022-23, our Journalism Award took the form of a Climate Champion Profiles Challenge to teenage journalists. Beginning in 2021, we began honoring teaching (by educators, NGOs, and news organizations) that assured students learned why journalism was a good thing to have around and that some people faced grave dangers for simply doing that job.

Eligibility

• The competition is open to any kind of news organization in any country run by people of any age and on any platform. The news outlet must be serving a local community successfully, at least in part through a collaboration with young people (defined as through university age).
• Candidates can be self-nominated or submitted by a third party nominator. ​
• For the purposes of this award,  YOUTH means people through university age (roughly up to 24 years old) and LOCAL is a geographic entity : such as a village, town, district, state or region within a country.
• Entries need to be in English.

Deadline: Jun 16, 2025