Requirements
- Entries must be for work published in calendar year 2024 (between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024)
- Entries have to be submitted via our online form.
- Entries have to be received by February 28th, 2025 at 11:59pm ET, to qualify.
- Applicants can enter as many projects as they want.
- Entries have to specify if they qualify as a large or a small newsroom or as an individual, where applicable. Small newsrooms are defined as those with 35 or fewer journalists (including regular freelancers/contractors), or equivalent (eg, two half-time freelancers count as one person.)
- Organizations that do not qualify under this definition but who believe they belong in the small newsroom category may petition for an exception by sending a letter from the editor-in-chief explaining his or her rationale to sigmas@gijn.org.
- Collaborative work has to be entered as a large newsroom.
Prize
- The overall cash prize is US$5,000, which will be distributed among the winners.
Method of Application
Visit the Official Webpage
Application Deadline: February 28, 2025.
