Ten data-driven journalism projects from around the world won the 2026 Sigma Awards, hosted by the Global Investigative Journalism Network. They were recognized as the best in data journalism out of 543 entries from 84 countries, as reported by GIJN.
Winners from Latin America included Peruvian outlet Salud con Lupa for "Invisibles: How System Failures and an Algorithm Left Thousands of Older Adults Without a Pension," Mexico's Quinto Elemento Lab for "Ghosts of the Treasury: Four Six-year Terms of Allocating Public Resources to Nonexistent Companies" and Brazil's Ambiental Media for "Cerrado — Brazil’s Sacred Water Link."
