Nominations open for Young Journalist Award 2023

The award is an opportunity for those brilliant young journalists to demonstrate a wealth of investigative journalism, and, in doing so hold power to account.

The annual competition is organised in partnership with the UK’s Foreign Press Association (FPA) and is presented at their annual awards event in London. The entries are scrutinised by the foundation and then independent, expert, FPA judges.

The three finalists are flown to London to attend the gala award night in London, along with a host of other potential award winners and leading figures from the world of journalism.

Criteria

• The competition enables journalists aged 30 and under, from countries with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of less than USD20,000, to send in their best stories.
• Entrants must be 30 years of age or under on 20 November 2023.
• Each entrant should submit a portfolio of three published or broadcast pieces of work produced in the 12 months preceding (prior to) the award deadline for submissions.
• All entrants should be reporting from their home country as defined by the GNI or, if not in their country of origin, in another country fitting the same criteria. Applicants also need to provide an explanation of any collaboration undertaken with colleagues or external organisations on the stories they submit.
• Journalists who enter for the FPA award will need to submit a written statement of no more than 200 words per story giving a summary of the content and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast, should also be submitted.
• The entries for the Young Journalist Award can be in any format: print, audio, video, multimedia, or a combination of all four. Applicants can provide URL links to their stories online. If necessary, they can use a file-sharing platform such as Google Drive for scans or PDFs of print articles, and for large audio or video files. A written statement of no more than 200 words per story giving a summary of the content and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast, should also be submitted.
• Entries can be in any language but should be accompanied by a verbatim English-language translation.
• Entrants should provide an explanation of any collaboration undertaken with colleagues or external organisations on the stories that they have submitted.
• Checks will be made for plagiarism and any entrant found to have submitted work which is not their own will be automatically disqualified.

For more information, visit Thomson Foundation.