Deadline: 15 January 2025
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks nominations for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics to recognize ethical decisions in reporting stories in any medium, including print, broadcast and digital, by journalists working for established news organizations or publishing independently.
The Shadid Award is different from other journalism prizes in that it seeks to recognize the difficult, behind-the-scenes decisions reporters make in pursuing high-impact stories and in fulfilling their ethical obligations to sources, to people caught up in news events, and to the public at large.
Funding Information
- The Shadid Award includes a $5,000 prize and travel expenses to accept the award and discuss the reporting at an awards ceremony held in Washington, DC on April 9, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Each news organizations can submit up to two nominations.
Application Requirements
- Name and contact information of the nominators and their relationship to the story.
- Names and emails of the reporter or reporting team that produced the report.
- Brief description of the story and a link to it online. If you are submitting a series longer than two installments, please highlight the two that you want to get the closest consideration. They will take into account the whole series.
- Description of conflicting values encountered in reporting the story.
- Options considered to resolve the conflicts.
- Final decisions and rationales behind them.
- Nomination letters of three pages or less should be saved in pdf format.
For more information, visit Center for Journalism Ethics.
