Deadline: 5 November 2023
True Story Award is looking for the best stories from around the world that illuminate local events from a variety of perspectives.
The True Story Award has no editorial, economic or ideological agenda. It simply hopes to recognise first-class journalism.
The True Story Award will be conferred by an independent foundation and honours reporters writing in 10 languages, who have distinguished themselves by the depth of their research, the quality of their journalism and its social relevance.
Three authors from each of the 12 categories will be nominated for the True Story Award 2024. They will receive an invitation to the True Story Festival in Bern at the end of May. The underlying core of the award is the gathering of journalists from all over the world and the exchange with audience in Bern. On site, the 7-member main jury, consisting of representatives from all five continents, will select the three winning texts.
Conditions
- For the True Story Award 2024, reportage from all over the world can be submitted. Texts should have been published between September 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023 in daily or weekly newspapers, magazines, or online:
- The texts’ length should be between 3 000 and 17 000 words.
- Re-published texts, books and manuscripts are ineligible.
- Visual and audiovisual works are ineligible.
- Essays, biographies and historical non-fiction are ineligible.
- Texts can be submitted by the authors or by editors.
- In submitting their work, authors declare that their work covers actually researched events and that it complies with journalistic standards.
For more information, visit True Story Foundation.
