Deadline: June 16, 2025
Is your news organization making a real difference in your local community through collaboration with young people? Now’s your chance to gain global recognition! Apply now for the Global Youth and News Media Journalism Award 2025.
The Global Youth & News Media Journalism Award 2025 celebrates outstanding partnerships between news organizations and youth that help local news outlets thrive. This year’s spotlight is on youth collaborations that contribute to the survival and success of local news media-and they want to hear your story!
Award Details
With this award they want to find, celebrate and spread the word about the lessons from the best cases of success in youth-local news media collaborations from around the world. At the very minimum, “success” means a regular, discernible audience for the work secondary school, vocational and university-age reporters produce in news media that serve a wider local community than their classmates.
It’s even better if their efforts can be linked to financial sustainability. And it’s even better yet if you persuade the organisers that not only is your approach working in your market but also that the essence of what you do could be adapted for use elsewhere.
Benefits
- Gain international recognition for your innovative youth collaboration.
- Share your success and inspire others worldwide.
- Help shape the future of journalism by showing what’s possible when young people and news media work together.
Eligibility
- The competition is open to any kind of news organization in any country run by people of any age and on any platform.
- The news outlet must be serving a local community successfully, at least in part through a collaboration with young people (defined as through university age).
- Candidates can be self-nominated or submitted by a third-party nominator.
Judging Criteria
Members of the international jury have been instructed to keep in mind three things:
- Impact (70%) Evidence that what you are doing works thanks to involvement of the young, especially as evidenced by measurable impact on audience, finances, etc. This is the core aim.
- Inspiration (15%) Transferability and adaptability of the idea for other countries.
- Innovation (15%) Success of a new approach. This does not preclude an initiative that has been going on for some time that still produces excellent results thanks to adaptation to the times.
Application
For more information, visit Global Youth and News Media Journalism Award.
