International awards and prizes
The story was a scoop, your colleagues were green with jealousy and your boss was closer than ever to considering giving you that pay raise. But that was yesterday - today the fishmonger wraps up his goods in your best efforts as a journalist.
Don’t you sometimes wish for a little more lasting recognition? The following list of articles details the international awards and prizes that recognise journalists and media professionals and which are open to contestants from more than one country.
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Amnesty International Special Award for Journalism Under Threat
Who: Amnesty International UK
What: This award pays tribute to the courage of journalists who pursue their legitimate journalistic work at great personal risk.
Where: UK
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Amnesty International award for human-rights journalism (UK media)
Who: Amnesty International, UK
What: Award for UK media recognising excellence in human rights journalism that has made a significant contribution to the UK public’s greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
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Bastiat prize for European Journalism
Who: International Policy Network (IPN)
What: The Bastiat Prize encourages and rewards writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science. This esteemed prize (USD 10,000) is awarded to one or more journalists, and past winners include Amity Shlaes of the Financial Times, Brian Carney of the Wall Street Journal Europe, and Robert Guest of the Economist.
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Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondents Award
Who:The town of Bayeux (France), in association with the Calvados General Council
What: Prize honouring journalists who exercise their profession in perilous conditions in defence of a free and democratic press. Categories - television, radio, printed press and photography. The award compises several prizes of EUR 3,000-7,600
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CJFE International Press Freedom Award
Who: Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)
What: Award recognising the courage and determination of journalists who face obstacles in order to break news.
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Common Ground Awards
Who: Search for Common Ground
What:The Common Ground Awards were established in 1998 to honour achievements in conflict transformation, and to acknowledge individuals and organisations who have made outstanding contributions to bridging divides and furthering understanding between groups of people. The CG Awards celebrate the compassion and resolve of the nominees, and acknowledge their courage and strength of spirit.
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Dr. Erhard Busek – SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe
Who:The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO)
What: Award to a journalist, editor, media executive, writer or journalism trainer in South East Europe, who, through the media, has promoted a climate of better understanding among peoples in the region and worked toward ending minority problems, ethnic divisions, racism, xenophobia etc. This prize awards with EUR 3,000
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Journalism Awards - Columbia University
Who: Columbia University School of Journalism
What: The Journalism School administers many professional awards in order to uphold standards of excellence in the media.
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The Global Health Excellence in Media Award
Who: The Global Health Council
What: Award to journalist who has captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience. The Global Health Excellence in Media Award is given each year to a journalist (print, electronic, or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience. The Global Health Council seeks through this award to highlight the important contributions to understanding and action made by the winner of the award. Selection is based on the quality of the reporting as well as its wide reach among readers and viewers.
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ICIJ Daniel Pearl Awards for Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting
Who:The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
What: Award to honour transnational investigative reporting. The competition, held biennially, is open to any professional journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in any medium. The prize includes wo USD 5,000 first-place prizes and five USD 1,000 finalist awards
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Ilaria Alpi television journalist’s award
Who: Premio giornalistico televisivo Ilaria Alpi
What:The Ilaria Alpi Award, established in 1995 in Riccione (Italy), is dedicated to Ilaria Alpi, the Italian journalist killed in Mogadishu in 1994, together with the cameraman Miran Hrovatin. Ilaria Alpi carried out her profession with rare dedication and sense of ethics, and the prize aims to motivate and reward fact-based reporting as an aid to knowledge building and reflection on events. The competition is addressed to articles and investigative television reports covering issues of social and civil interest and is open to Italian and international journalists.
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Inter American Press Association (IAPA) awards for Journalistic Excellence
Who:Inter American Press Association (IAPA)
What: Award for the best of news coverage in the Americas.
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International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Current Affairs Films
Who: The CMCA, Mediterranean Centre for Audiovisual Communication
What: Award for best documentary programme dealing with subjects related to life, exchanges, culture, heritage, history, men and women, countries and communities in the Mediterranean area.
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International Journalism Festival Awards
Who: International Journalism Festival
What: Awards for journalists organised in the frame of the International Journalism Festival, open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. Its leitmotiv is one of informality and accessibility, designed to appeal to journalists, journalism students and those interested in the role of the media in society.
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IUCN - Reuters - COMplus Media Awards
Who: World Conservation Union (IUCN), Reuters and COMplus
What: Award for excellence in reporting on environmental and sustainable development issues, and in fostering a dialogue between journalists and environmental and development experts. This award offers a first prize of USD 5,000
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IWMF Courage in Journalism awardsWho:The International Women’s Media Foundation
What: The award honours women working in the news media who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances - including physical danger, government oppression, political pressure or other intimidating obstacles.
Where: USA
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Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism
Who: Kurt Schork Memorial Fund
What: Award recognising independent and professional reporting that sheds new light on controversial issues in a development country or nation in transition. The prize is USD 5,000 or each category winner
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Lorenzo Natali Prize
Who: European Commission
What:The Lorenzo Natali Prize rewards journalists who have demonstrated a striking insight and particular dedication to the reporting of human rights issues within the context of the development process. From 2008 the competition is also open to radio and television journalists. The award consists of 17 prizes up to EUR 5,000
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Minority Voices Young Journalist Award
Who: Minority Rights Group International
What: This Award will be presented to one outstanding young journalist wanting to highlight within the European media the issues facing minority and indigenous communities in the global south. The prize consists of a research trip to visit a minority or indigenous community in the global south.
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One World Media awards
Who: One World Media
What: Awards recognising the best journalistic and creative endeavour about and in the developing world: Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, or the former Soviet Union.
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Online Journalism awards
Who: The Online News Association and the University of Miami's School of Communication.
What:The awards honour quality digital journalism from around the world. The prize can reach up to USD 5,000.
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Premio nuevo periodismo CEMEX-FNPI
Who: The Fundación Nuevo Periodismo and CEMEX
What: Award for journalists in Latin America publishing in Internet, radio and television.
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Press Freedom award for critical journalists from East/South Europe
Who: Reporter ohne Grenzen Austria
What: Reporter ohne Grenzen awards every year a critical journalist from East and South Europe with 15,000 euros
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Prix Francophone de la Liberté de la Presse
Who: Radio France Internationale, Reporters sans Frontières and Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
What: Competition for French speaking journalists; The prize consisting of EUR 2,500 awards the best report about human rights.
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Radio France Internationale also organises prizes for Spanish speaking journalists. For more information, click here
Prix Jeunesse International
What: Award for the best children’s television programme and webpage
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SND Best of News Design
Who: Society for News Design
What: Competitions for journalists and Web designers. The competition honours skill, innovation and high quality visual journalism in Web and other new media design.
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Transparency International Integrity awards
Who: Transparency International
What: Award for the best investigative report on corruption around the world
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Water Media Network Journalists’ Competition
Who: The Water Media Network and the World Water Forum
What: Competition for journalists on the theme of water
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UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom prize
Who: UNESCO
What: Prize intended to honour, each year, a person, organisation or institution which has made a notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if this involved risk. The winner is awarded with USD 25,000
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World Press Photo
Who: World Press Photo, an independent non-profit organisation
What: Prize for news-related photography in nine categories
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