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. It is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, although some awards are not limited to one country.

International

* The Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize * The Prince Albert II of Monaco and UNCA Global Prize * Online Journalism Awards, administered by

Online News Association The Online News Association (ONA), founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Washington D.C., United States. It is the world's largest association of digital journalists, with more than 2,000 members. The majority of ONA ...

UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, created in 1997, honours a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially whe ...

World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award The Golden Pen of Freedom Award is an annual international journalism award established in 1961, given by the World Association of Newspapers to individuals or organisations. The stated purpose of the award is "to recognise the outstanding action, i ...

Africa

* Nigeria : Nigerian Academy of Science Media Awards * South Africa :

Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity The Nat Nakasa Award for Media Integrity is an award presented to a South African media practitioner in newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and online print media and whose reporting celebrates freedom of speech and media integrity. The award is ...

* South Africa : Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism

Americas

Canada

* Charles Lynch Award *

Critics and Awards Program for High School Students The Cappies (Critics and Awards Program) is an international program for recognizing, celebrating, and providing learning experiences for high school theater and journalism students and teenage playwrights. There are currently 13 Cappies programs i ...

Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award The Yves O. Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award is presented annually by the Geological Association of Canada to "a journalist who is a resident of Canada and who has been exceptionally effective in presenting one or more earth science stories ...

Gordon Sinclair Award The Gordon Sinclair Award is a Canadian journalism award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for excellence in broadcast journalism. Originally presented as part of the ACTRA Awards, it was transferred to the new Gemini Awar ...

Jack Graney Award The Jack Graney Award is presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum to a member of the Canadian media for their contributions to the game of baseball in Canada. The award is not presented every year, b ...

Jack Webster Awards Jack Webster Awards are a series of yearly industry awards presented by the Jack Webster Foundation for outstanding achievement in journalism in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The awards were established in 1986 by the foundation and ...

Michener Award The Michener Award is one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. The award was founded in 1970 by Roland Michener, who was Governor General of Canada at the time, and his wife Norah. The idea for the award was developed in 1969 with Bi ...

* National Media Awards Foundation *

National Newspaper Awards The National Newspaper Awards (french: link=no, Concours canadien de journalisme) are prizes awarded annually for the best work in Canadian newspapers. Synopsis The awards were first given in 1949 by the Toronto Press Club, which ran the awards u ...

Olivar-Asselin Award The Olivar-Asselin Award (in French: ''Prix Olivar-Asselin'') is an award created in 1955.Le prix Olivar-Asselin< ...

United States

Latin America

* Brazil :

Esso Journalism Award ''ExxonMobil Journalism Award'' (''Prêmio ExxonMobil de Jornalismo''), previously known as Esso Journalism Award (''Prêmio Esso de Jornalismo''), formerly known as Esso Reportage Award (''Prêmio Esso de Reportagem''), is an annual Brazilian jou ...

* Brazil :

Vladimir Herzog Award Vladimir Herzog Award ( Portuguese: ''Prêmio Jornalistico Vladimir Herzog de Anistia e Direitos Humanos'') is a Brazilian award for journalists who excel in the coverage of human rights issues in the national press. It was created in 1979 by t ...

* Chile : Lenka Franulic Award * Chile : National Prize for Journalism * Ecuador : Jorge Mantilla Ortega Prize * Uruguay : Marcelo Jelen Award

Asia

* Bangladesh :

Babisas Award The Babisas Award is given by "Bangladesh Binodon Shangbadik Somiti" (English: Bangladesh Entertainment Journalist Association) or "BABISAS" every year for best performances in media. is an organization for progressive entertainment journalists. ...

* Hong Kong :

Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards The Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards recognize coverage of issues included in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United N ...

* India : Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards * India :

Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons The Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson is an Indian journalism award named after Chameli Devi Jain, an Indian independence activist who became the first Jain woman to go to prison during India's independence struggle. The ...

* India :

Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the 12th edition being held in 2017. The awa ...

* India : Siva Prasad Barooah National Award * Israel :

Sokolov Award The Sokolov Award, also known as Sokolov Prize, is an Israeli journalism award, awarded by the Tel Aviv municipality, in memory of Nahum Sokolow. The award has been granted since 1956, initially to outstanding print journalists and since 1981 to ...

* Japan :

Editors' Choice Magazine Journalism Award The is an annual prize for journalism awarded by a coalition of Japanese publishing companies since 1995. Participating companies include mainstream publishers like Kodansha, Shinchosha, and Bungeishunjū. Past awards References

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* Pakistan :

Agahi Award The Agahi Awards are an annual series of awards for journalism in Pakistan. They were inaugurated in 2012 and are Pakistan's first ever Journalism Awards. These awards are organized by Mishal Pakistan, which is a media consultancy firm, in collab ...

* Pakistan : Pride of the Nation Gold Medal Awards * Philippines :

National Schools Press Conference The National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) is the highest competition for journalism for both private and public elementary and secondary schools in the Philippines as per Republic Act 7079, also known as the ''Campus Journalism Act of 1991''. T ...

* Philippines :

Ramon Magsaysay Award The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: ''Gawad Ramon Magsaysay'') is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealis ...

* Thailand :

Sriburapha Award {{unreferenced, date=September 2017 The Sriburapha Award is a Thai award, established in 1988 in honor of Kulap Saipradit, whose pen name was Sriburapha ( th, ศรีบูรพา). The award recognizes excellence in journalism, writing, and/or ...

* Turkey : Metin Göktepe Journalism Awards * Turkey : Sedat Simavi Journalism Award * UAE :

Arab Journalism Award The Arab Journalism Award (AJA) ( ar, جائزة الصحافة العربية) launched in 1999, by Dubai Press Club, The award is given each year by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during the Arab Media Forum. It plays a role in motiv ...

Europe

* Europe :

European Initiative Prize The European Initiative Prize ( French: '')'' is a journalism prize, created in 2003 by the Maison de l’Europe de Paris and the European Press Club with the support of the European Parliament.

* Europe :

European Newspaper Award European Newspaper Award is a design competition for European newspapers. The competition was founded and is organized by newspaper designer Norbert Küpper from Meerbusch, Germany. He co-operates with the journalist magazines '' Medium Magazin'' ...

* Europe :

European Press Prize The European Press Prize is an award programme for excellence in journalism across all 47 countries of Europe. It was founded in 2012 by seven European media foundations: The Guardian Foundation, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Jyllands-Posten Found ...

* Europe : Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize * Croatia : Otokar Keršovani Prize * Denmark :

Cavling Prize The Cavling Prize is a prestigious Danish journalist award. It is awarded annually in January to "a journalist or a group of journalists who have shown initiative and talent in the past year." It is generally considered the most prestigious priz ...

* France :

Albert Londres Prize The Albert Londres Prize is the highest French journalism award, named in honor of journalist Albert Londres. Created in 1932, it was first awarded in 1933 and is considered the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Three laureates are awarded ...

* France :

Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents The Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents (French: Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie des correspondants de guerre), previously the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, is an annual prize awarded since 1994, by the city of Bay ...

* Ireland :

National Student Media Awards The National Student Media Awards or Smedias are an annual All-Ireland student journalism competition run by the Oxygen.ie website. The awards have been labelled "Ireland's premier student awards". History and format Since 2000, Oxygen.ie, a webs ...

* Italy :

Ischia International Journalism Award The Ischia International Journalism Award is one of the most important Italian journalism awards. It is organized under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the Regione Campania, the Province of Naples, the National Fe ...

* Italy : Premiolino * Netherlands : Anne Vondeling prize * Netherlands :

Pop Media Award The Pop Media Award (called the Pop Press Award until 2007) is an award which aims to encourage Dutch pop journalism. Since 2004 the Pop Media Award is awarded on an annual basis during the European music conference and showcase festival Eurosonic ...

* Norway : International Reporter * Norway :

Narvesen Prize The Narvesen Prize was a Norwegian prize for those who excelled in journalism. It was established in 1954 by the company Narvesen, but the Norwegian Press Association was behind the selection of winners. It was discontinued in 1990. List of winne ...

* Norway :

SKUP Award SKUP Award (''SKUP-prisen'') is a Norwegian journalism award. It has been awarded annually since 1990 by the Norwegian Foundation for a Free and Investigative Press (''Stiftelsen for en Kritisk og Undersøkende Presse'') or SKUP.The award is a cu ...

* Poland : Golden Pear * Spain :

Ortega y Gasset Awards The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards are named after the Spanish philosopher and journalist José Ortega y Gasset. The awards were created by the newspaper '' El País'' in 1984. Every year, these awards are given to those whose work has shown ...

* Sweden :

Guldspaden Guldspaden is an annual Swedish journalism award for investigative journalism. Dating from 1991, it is awarded by the non-profit organization Föreningen Grävande Journalister (Swedish Association of Investigative Journalism which is part of ...

* Sweden : Per Wendel Award * Sweden :

Stora Journalistpriset Stora Journalistpriset ("The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism") is an annual Swedish award, founded in 1966 by Bonnier AB, given to "recognize achievement in journalism". The prize money is SEK 100,000 and is awarded in four categories: * Sc ...

* Sweden : Swedish Publicists' Association * Sweden : WASH Media Award * Sweden : Åke Blomström Award * Turkey : Istanbul Photo Awards

Germany

* Axel-Springer-Preis * Ernst-Schneider-Preis * Felix-Rexhausen Award * Gerhard Löwenthal Prize *

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award The Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Award is a German award for excellence in journalism. It was first awarded in 1995. The award is named for the German journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Hanns Joachim "Hajo" Friedrichs (15 March 1927 – 28 March 1 ...

Lettre Ulysses Award The Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage has been given annually since 2003 for the best texts in the genre of literary reportage, which must have been first published during the previous two years. The award was initiated by Lettre Intern ...

The BOBs (weblog award) The BOBs (Best of the Blogs) is the world's largest international weblog competition, founded in 2004 and sponsored by Deutsche Welle, the German International Broadcasting Service. Through the BOBs, Deutsche Welle focuses attention on the pro ...

Theodor Wolff Prize The Theodor Wolff Prize is a German journalism prize. It has been awarded annually since 1962 in five categories, equal prizes of €6,000, by the . In addition, at irregular intervals, journalists are awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for their life ...

* Wächterpreis der Tagespresse

United Kingdom

Oceania

Australia

Arthur Lovekin Prize in Journalism The Arthur Lovekin Prize for Excellence in Journalism is an annual journalism award in Western Australia. The Prize was established with the University of Western Australia in 1928 by journalist, newspaper owner and politician, Arthur Lovekin, ...

Eureka Prizes The Eureka Prizes are awarded annually by the Australian Museum, Sydney, to recognise individuals and organizations who have contributed to science and the understanding of science in Australia. They were founded in 1990 following a suggestion b ...

Gold Walkley The Gold Walkley is the major award of the Walkley Awards The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic ...

Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, often known simply as the Graham Perkin Award, is one of Australia's pre-eminent prizes for journalism. It was established and named in honour of Graham Perkin, who was editor of ''The ...

* John Douglas Pringle Award * Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards *

Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year The Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year, or Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year is awarded to the photographer whose body of work is considered the best in the country for that year. It recognises newsworthiness, im ...

Pascall Prize The Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, formerly known as the Pascall Prize and then the Walkley-Pascall Award or Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism, is one of two annual Walkley Arts Journalism prizes awarded by the Walkley Foundation. The ...

Queensland Media Awards The Queensland Clarion Awards, a union-administered award for journalists in the state of Queensland, Australia, started in 1995 and in May 2010 were re-branded from ''Queensland Media Awards''. The Clarion name was chosen to reflect the history ...

* Sport Australia Media Awards *

Stanley Award The Stanley Awards, also known as The Stanleys, are an annual comics award issued by the Australian Cartoonists' Association which recognize the best of Australian cartoonists and cartooning. They are named after Stan Cross and were first orga ...

The Ledger Awards The Ledger Awards are prizes awarded to "acknowledge excellence in Australian comic art and publishing." Named after pioneering Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger (1945–1994), the awards were first held in 2005 to help promote and focus att ...

* WA Media Awards *

Walkley Awards The annual Walkley Awards are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. They cover all media including print, television, documentary, radio, photographic and online media. The Gold Walkley is the highest prize and ...

Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing The Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing was first presented in 1997, as one of the Walkley Awards. At some point it became the Walkley Award for Broadcast Presenting, until 2001. In 2009 the award category became Walkley Award for Broadcast ...

Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership The Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership is an Australian award that recognises outstanding acts of courage and bravery in the practice of journalism, in the prestigious Walkley Awards series. The inaugural award, for Excellence in News Leader ...

Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism The Walkley Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, formerly Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, is one of the prestigious Australian Walkley Awards, and "recognises the achievements of a person or group for ...

* Young Australian Journalist of the Year

Photojournalism

* Atrium Award * Democracy Photo Challenge *

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* Local Testimony *

Pictures of the Year International Pictures of the Year International (POYi) is a professional development program for visual journalists run on a non-profit basis by the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. POYi began as an annual competition f ...

Prix Nadar The Prix Nadar is an annual prize awarded for a photography book edited in France. The prize was created in 1955 by Association Gens d'Images and is awarded by a jury of photojournalists and publishing experts. The prize is named after Nadar, t ...

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. From 2000 it has used the "breaking news" name but it is considered a continuation of the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photogr ...

Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography is one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It recognizes a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or phot ...

Pulitzer Prize for Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It was inaugurated in 1942 and replaced by two photojournalism prizes in 1968: the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and "Pulitzer Pri ...

Robert Capa Gold Medal The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photo ...

* Visa pour l'Image * W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund

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