Awards

This award recognizes, encourages and stimulates outstanding reporting directly to the public, which materially increases the public's knowledge and understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields. Deadline: Nov 1, 2018.

The Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Awards recognize the best in professional journalism in categories covering print, radio, television, newsletters, art/graphics, online and research, as well as Spanish-language awards. Deadline: Feb 5, 2024.

This award honors up-and-coming journalists in Africa who strive to strengthen people's voices and illuminate the transformational change taking place on the continent. $5,000 cash prize and the opportunity to spend up to two weeks at The Economist headquarters in London. Deadline: Jan 31, 2024.

This award honors the late Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus. It celebrates women and non-binary photojournalists whose work inspires us to take action and better understand the world. $20,000 cash prize and work showcased. Open to full-time women photojournalists worldwide. Deadline: Dec 17, 2023.

SER's photo contest will award prizes in five categories: Restoration Before/After, Restoration in Action, Flora and Fauna, Ecosystems and Human Dimensions of Restoration. Enter by Oct 15, 2017.

Environmental journalists, if your investigations have delved into the business world, enter your work in this contest sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Cash prizes. Deadline: Jul 31/17.

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.