Participate in the IAPA Excellence in Journalism Contest

The award ceremony will be held in October 2024 during the 80th IAPA General Assembly in Cordoba, Argentina.

Categories

• Press Freedom Grand Prize
  • Description: It will be awarded to a person or organization with significant achievements in favor of the cause of press freedom and freedom of expression. Any person may nominate or apply for this award.
• Claudio Paolillo Migration Journalism (sponsored by La Silla Rota, Mexico)
  • Description: Coverage of migration issues including causes and consequences of the flow of people. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their newsworthiness, argumentation, balance, use of sources and complementary material.
• Cartoon and Illustration (sponsored by El Tiempo, Bogota, Colombia)
  • Description: Graphic images on current issues. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their originality, aesthetic and journalistic value, timeliness and power of synthesis.
• News coverage of current affairs (sponsored by Infobae)
  • Description: The category joins the previous ones, Internet News Coverage and News Coverage. It is news coverage of current events, including all types of graphic and audiovisual resources. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their newsworthiness, argumentation, balance, use of sources, complementary material and multimedia.
• Interview Alejandro Miró Quesada Garland (sponsored by El Comercio, Lima, Peru)
  • Description: Dialogue that allows for an in-depth look at the personality and environment of the interviewee and highlights his or her opinions on newsworthy issues. The Jury will consider works that stand out for the relevance of the character, the timeliness of his or her comments and the interviewer’s skill in obtaining them.
• Chronicle (sponsored by Debate Media, Mexico)
  • Description: Works in any platform that respect the essential characteristics of the genre: personal implication, temporal sequence, journalistic value and literary writing. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their originality, journalistic value and social impact.
• Solutions Journalism (sponsored by La Prensa, Río Bamba, Ecuador)
  • Description: Works of any journalistic genre focused on actions aimed at empowering and enabling people and communities to take useful actions and decisions. The Jury will consider works that stand out for the novelty of themes and approaches, topicality, social impact and journalistic value. Reporting is an integral part of the solutions approach.
• Photography and Video (sponsored by La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador)
  • Description: Still and moving images on issues of social impact. The Jury will consider those photographic and video reports that stand out for their timeliness, originality, aesthetic and journalistic value.
• Opinion (sponsored by El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile)
  • Description: Opinion columns on issues of social impact. The Jury will consider works that stand out for the strength of their argumentation, timeliness, relevance and style.
• Data Journalism (sponsored by Grupo de Comunicaciones Corripio, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
  • Description: This category joins the previous categories, Data Journalism and Infographics. It is the exhibition of data based on journalistic research, using all possible artistic means. The Jury will consider proposals with aesthetic, journalistic and didactic value that stand out for their combined use of texts, photographs, videos and graphics based on rigorous journalistic research.
• In-depth Journalism (sponsored by La República, Lima, Peru)
  • Description: Investigative journalism on issues of social importance. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their use of investigative and analytical techniques, live and documentary sources and field work.
• Environmental Journalism Roberto Eisenmann Jr. (sponsored by La Prensa, Panama City, Panama)
  • Description: Coverage of environmental issues that denounce harmful actions or reflect measures for their preservation and care. The Jury will consider works that stand out for their newsworthiness, argumentation, balance, use of sources, complementary material and multimedia, if that is the case.
• College Journalism (sponsored by CLAEP)
  • Description: Report with a free theme that has been published in university media. The Jury will consider works that stand out in the handling of the reportage genre, whose essential characteristics are topicality, varied use of sources and data, photographs, interviews and documents, in which skills learned during the career can be observed.
  • There is a group of categories, outside of journalistic content, relevant to the sustainability of a media outlet, its adaptability to changes in the field of technology and marketing, the leadership of its executives, as well as institutions that support the mission of the press. These are:
• Sustainability (sponsored by the AFP news agency).
  • Description: original and efficient commercial/financial initiative or strategy that contributes to the sustainability of a media outlet. Nominations: By the media outlet itself or by other media or individuals.
• Digital Transformation (sponsored by Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina).
  • Description: Innovative and/or successful initiative, strategy or project in the areas of subscriptions, digital marketing, sponsored journalism, audience and vertical segmentation, events, sponsored content, micropayments, donations, readers’ club, creative campaigns, innovation or transformation culture. Nominations: By partner and non-partner media of any size, circulation or reach.
• Great friend of the press
  • Description: organization, institution, company or individual that has excelled in supporting the media through sponsorships, loans and/or donations. Nominations: By the organizations or institutions themselves, member and non-member media, as well as IAPA authorities.
• Executive of the Year
  • Description: Media executive of great impact on his or her company and/or community. Their leadership and vision reflected in the company’s performance and influence within the community they serve, whether or not in the field of journalistic content, will be highlighted. Nominations: By the organizations or institutions themselves, member and non-member media, as well as from IAPA authorities.

Award Information

• The majority of the first prizes in each category will be awarded U$S 2,000 (two thousand U.S. dollars).

Eligibility Criteria

• Only journalistic pieces actually published during the period between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024 in a daily newspaper, weekly, magazine, press agency, online publication or radio and television stations will be considered as contestants.
• The IAPA will award the Grand Prize for Press Freedom to an individual or organization with significant achievements in favor of this cause.

For more information, visit IAPA.