Deadline: July 20, 2025
Applications are open for the Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025. In tribute to the legacy of Eglantyne Jebb, and to mark the 100th anniversary of the League of Nations’ adoption of the Declaration of the rights of a child, Save the Children proudly launched its Global Media Awards in 2024 to celebrate excellence in journalism that champions child rights.
Now in its second year, Save the Children’s Global Media Awards 2025 continue to honour professional journalists from around the world whose storytelling has played a pivotal role in uncovering, highlighting, and addressing critical child rights issues. They aim to showcase the power of media to drive awareness, inspire action, and spark positive change for children everywhere.
This year, the awards will recognize outstanding work across multiple categories, including:
- Print (online and print)
- Broadcast
- Radio / Podcast
- Photography
Prize
- Winners will receive a personalised certificate and be invited to attend a Save the Children international press trip or programme visit.
- All shortlist finalists will receive a personalised certificate.
Eligibility
- Open to all professional journalists aged 18 and over, except:
- individuals (and their partners and family) involved in the judging of the competition; or employees of any Save the Children office or a Trustee of the Save the Children.
- Entries must be original and published/broadcast in a national, regional or international media outlet between 31 August 2024 and 1 July 2025.
- Entrants may participate in one or both categories, but will only be awarded in one category.
- All submissions must clearly identify who the author is and which media outlet they represent.
- All entries must be submitted in English or original text be accompanied with an English translation.
- Participating journalists must submit a letter from the media outlet certifying that the piece was published in their outlet and certifying the date of publication of the piece.
- All photographs entered must be the result of photographic process using a camera.
- Submissions must be journalistically ethical, must not put children at risk, and must respect the dignity of children.
- Winners of previous Save the Children Global Media Awards are not eligible to win again.
Selection Criteria
- Relevance:
- Compelling Storytelling: Expose a child rights issue or highlights children taking action for positive change through compelling storytelling.
- Fresh Perspective: Introduce a child rights issue to the outlet’s audiences, either for the first time or in a fresh and innovative way.
- Engaging and Appropriate: Be engaging and appropriate for the intended audience.
- Children’s Voices and Safeguarding
- Inclusion of Child Voices: Include case studies, first-hand accounts, or testimonials from children (or their parents / guardians) to amplify their voices and provide a human perspective.
- Adherence to Child Safeguarding: Comply with child safeguarding standards and ethical reporting practices, ensuring the rights of children involved were not compromised and their dignity and privacy respected.
- Balanced and Fair: Demonstrate impartial, objective, and unbiased reporting on child rights issues.
- Impact and Innovation:
- Further Media Coverage: If the piece resulted in additional media coverage on the child rights
- Demonstrable Impact: Evidence of positive change for children, such as changes in policy or law, or proof of a positive impact on the lives of those whose stories have been told.
- Recognition of Creativity: Awards will be given to entries that demonstrate innovative and creative approaches to storytelling, capturing audiences’ attention and bringing awareness to critical child rights topics.
Application
You will be asked to submit your entries in one of the following ways:
- by uploading files ideally as PDF, JPG, MP3 or MP4 to our viewing platform.
- For video, please submit a link to your own viewing platform (eg: vimeo/youtube).
Each entry should be submitted along with the following information:
- Synopsis and impact statement.
- Credits for up to three (3) people connected with the entry in the description.
- A letter from the media outlet certifying that the piece was published in their outlet and certifying the date of publication of the piece.
For more information, visit Save the Children’s Global Media Awards.
