Deadline: June 30, 2024
Applications are open for the Lorenzo Natali Prize 2024. For over three decades, the Lorenzo Natali Prize has celebrated excellence in journalism as the EU’s flagship journalism award, commemorating the former Vice-President of the European Commission, Lorenzo Natali, who strongly promoted and furthered European development policies.
Since its establishment in 1992, the Prize has brought stories about important worldwide issues into focus. It has recognised journalists who bring to light stories on the human impact of climate, digital infrastructure, gender equality, human development, jobs, peace, governance and human rights, among other issues, and this year is no different.
Categories
- Best Emerging Journalist Award: Reporting by journalists aged between 18 and 25 at the time of submission and published by a media outlet based in any of the eligible countries. The Best Emerging Journalist Prize also offers a unique training opportunity to equip the winner with the skills required for high-quality journalism.
- Investigative Journalism Award: Reporting published by a media outlet based in one of the eligible countries whose objective is to uncover serious issues such as crimes, injustice, corruption, or corporate wrongdoing, and to expose these to the public.
- Feature Journalism Award: Reporting published by a media outlet based in one of the eligible countries focusing on entertaining, educating, engaging or informing the audience. This can take an in-depth look at a current event, situation, person or group, and can cover innovations and solutions to current challenges.
- Special Award – Photojournalism: Photojournalism work published by a media outlet based in one of the eligible countries in recognition of the impact of visual storytelling in conveying the complex realities of our world. Entries under this category must be single photographs.
Benefits
- The winner of each category will receive EUR 10,000 as a prize, and the winner of the Best Emerging Journalist category will also be offered an exciting work experience placement or traineeship with a media partner. The winners will be announced at the Lorenzo Natali Prize Award Ceremony in Brussels later in 2024.
Eligibility
- Open to journalists;
- Entries could be in any language but should be accompanied by a translation into one of the competition languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or German.
- Entries can take various forms, including written articles, audio-visual content, or multimedia presentations.
The Lorenzo Natali Prize rewards excellent reporting on the topics of:
- Climate, environment and energy
- Digital and infrastructure
- Gender equality
- Human development
- Migration and forced displacement
- Peace and governance
- Sustainable growth and jobs
- Youth
Application
For more information, visit Lorenzo Natali Prize.
