Awards

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 Cash and other prizes for published and unpublished work.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.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering reporting grants of $1,000-2,000 to support the production of in-depth stories that highlight previously untold threats to global biodiversity or explore new conservation-based solutions. Deadline is Nov 15, 2021.

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is now accepting nominations for the annual Mirror Awards honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Deadline is Feb 15, 2024.