"Journalists and news executives based in the Western Hemisphere and press associations or news services that serve such organizations can be nominated for this award. Columbia University School of Journalism launches the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, which recognize journalists and news organizations with a distinguished body of work that has contributed to Inter-American understanding. Honorees […]
“Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program has become an industry standard for excellence. Last year, the awards team received nearly 1,100 entries, from 29 countries on six continents. Winners […]
Until next Feb. 15, nominations will be received for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, which each year “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, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is calling media professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain to participate in its Excellence in Journalism 2024 contest. Only journalistic pieces actually published between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024 in a daily newspaper, weekly, magazine, news agency, online publication or radio and television […]
"[...] The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) seeks nominations for the 2024 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award. Nominees can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers or citizen journalists who are from and work in Africa, Asia, Central/Eastern Europe, Latin America/Caribbean or the Middle East. The award reflects the mission of ICFJ's Knight Fellowships, which create […]
The Gabo Foundation has opened the call for entries for the 12th edition of the Gabo Journalism Prize, the award that will once again bring together an outstanding group of journalists from all over Ibero-America to Bogota, Colombia this year. Entries may be submitted until Feb. 29 through the registration platform. The nomination categories are […]
“The Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in the Region (CAPIR, for its acronym in Spanish) is receiving expressions of interest from independent Latin American journalistic media that want financing, mentoring and training to investigate how disinformation works, who finances it and who is behind it. ... The selected media outlets will have to carry out […]
"Venezuelan journalist and executive director of the Press and Society Institute of Venezuela (Ipys-Venezuela), Marianela Balbi, is one of the 12 people in the world to receive the 2023 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. The governments of Germany and France announced the list of those who will receive this award, […]
Journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean have a free opportunity to delve deeper into coverage of environmental issues in a new program offered by the Global Methane Hub organization that will begin in early 2024. The program, "Short-Lived Contaminants for Journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean" program Caribe with a focus on solutions […]
"The 2023 Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism (Colpin, for its acronym in Spanish), the most important journalistic meeting in the region, will bring together more than 200 journalists from more than 15 countries for four days, from Dec. 6 to 9, in Mexico City. This event is organized by the Press and Society Institute […]
"elDiario.es is organizing the fifth edition of the Ibero-American Journalism Encounter that will take place on Monday, Dec. 11, starting at 4:00 p.m. at Casa de América, Madrid. [...] Throughout the gathering, we will talk about the safety of journalists, disinformation, the impact of AI in journalism, the gender gap and the value for a […]
At a ceremony on Nov. 28 in Brussels, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) presented its Press Freedom Awards. The founder of the Guatemalan newspaper elPeriódico, José Rubén Zamora, received the award in the “Independence” category. The Colombian journalist Juan Pablo Barrientos was awarded in the “Impact” category. RSF highlighted Zamora’s work for two decades […]