Awards

Enter the competition for a chance to win cash in three categories (Nature, Cities, People) or the grand prize of a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions. Deadline: June 30.

This contest, organized by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), aims to invent new ways to help verified facts reach the widest possible audience. Journalists and others are invited to submit creative solutions that turn fact-checking into engaging, visual and interactive stories. Cash prizes. Deadline is June 30.

With shrinking media budgets around the world, many newsworthy stories on real solutions to global challenges go unreported. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation's new small grant scheme aims to support impartial and high-quality reporting by journalists or final-year journalism students, to put the spotlight on the issues that matter. Deadline: Jun 15, 2017.

Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) invites amateur photographers and photography enthusiasts to capture their views and vision of our shared ocean home in East Asia. Cash prizes. June 11, 2017 deadline.

Launched by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, this award will recognise the work of professional journalists and emerging talent from all over the world for excellence in reporting and communicating issues related to food security, sustainability, agriculture and nutrition. Cash and other prizes for published and unpublished work. Deadline is May 31, 2018.

This award honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions. Cash prize and a trip to the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Sep 19-22 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Deadline: Feb 28, 2023.

As a key program of The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, the Book Competition is an internationally recognized literary competition that celebrates mountain literature in all its forms. Over $29,000CAD in cash prizes. Deadline: Jul 2, 2024.

Promoting the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices. This funding initiative enables the International Women's Media Foundation to dramatically expand its support of women journalists reporting on issues of global importance that are typically under-reported. Deadline for 2019 round two: Sep 5.

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering reporting grants to support the production of in-depth, previously untold climate change stories in the Pacific Islands. Deadline: Feb 17, 2017.