Awards

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.

This competition asks high school and college students to make videos that tell stories about the climate impacts experienced by their own communities. Cash prizes. Enter by May 1, 2017.

SPOT 127's national awards recognize outstanding digital media produced by high school and undergraduate students ages 14-23. Win cash and a trip to Phoenix. Enter by Jan 31, 2018.

Sponsored by the Forest History Society, this annual award is given to a journalist whose work incorporates forest or conservation history in an article or series of articles published in North America that relate to environmental issues. $1,000 prize +. Deadline: May 15, 2024.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University will award fellowships and grants up to $9,000 for independent investigative reporting by women and journalists of color. Apply by Oct 1.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism will award grants and fellowships to four independent U.S. reporters to investigate significant systemic or social justice issues. Open to women and journalists of color working in any media. Apply by Oct 1, 2016.