Deadline: 17 January 2024
The Sigma Awards invite data teams, big or small, but also individuals or freelancers, to submit the great projects they’ve done throughout the past year.
The Sigma Awards celebrates the best data journalism from around the world. It’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.
This year’s Sigma Awards will be about highlighting the very best data journalism done about the pandemic (and building an international database record of such projects), the Russia-Ukraine war, but also those covering other topics such as politics, sports, or the environment.
Goals
- To highlight the very best data journalism being done around the world. A multitude of compelling projects have been released over the past few months, in all regions of the world. They want to celebrate that great work, share it with the community, and get journalists to get inspired and learn from each other’s successes;
- To build a community that endures beyond the awards themselves;
- To set up online conferences, chats and gather online resources tackling the real urgent issues met by journalists today such as where to find data about crisis in their city/country/region, what’s to know when working with this type of data, what tools to use, how do others deal with the day-to-day challenges of working such data, etc.
- To use the awards as a way to unite, galvanize and expand data journalism communities around the world. Core to this project is The Sigma Awards team’s ambition to ignite collaborations and discussions between members of the community, on topics related to COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine war, and others.
Prize Information
- There’s a US$5,000 cash prize that will be split among winners.
- Winning participants will also be invited to Perugia, Italy to attend and take part in the International Journalism Festival 2024.
- It’s a great opportunity to come and meet fellow journalists from around the world (and eat gelato or pizza – or both – for four days). And finally, all winners will get a certificate suitable for framing.
What they’d like to see?
- Great data collection and analysis in the service of journalism, ideally shining a light on facts and issues of public interest that would otherwise not be known;
- Great storytelling and engagement with strong visual and interactive elements of (ideally) that kind of reporting;
- Great public service, either in reporting/analysis of key issues or in terms of empowering communities to discover important information for themselves;
- Great innovative ideas that will likely move the field forward.
Eligibility Criteria
- It’s free to enter and open to all newsrooms, as well as individuals, around the world.
- The Sigma Awards platform lets you enter in either of these 8 languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, and Chinese.
- You can submit as many entries as you want, as single entries or as a portfolio.
- Entries must be for work published in calendar year 2023 (between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023).
- Collaborative work has to be entered as a large newsroom.
For more information, visit Sigma Awards.
