"Aware of the importance of good journalism for society and especially for the strength of democracy, the Diego Portales University (UDP, by its Spanish acronym), in Chile, has created the Premio Cátedra Mujeres y Medios award. This award hopes to make visible the extensive journalistic work of generations of women and thus build a platform […]
"The Press and Society Institute (IPYS, by its Spanish acronym) announces the 2022 edition of the Latin American Prize for Investigative Journalism, the most important award in the specialty in the region. The organization will receive applications until June 30, the day after which a jury made up of journalists with extensive experience will evaluate […]
"Registration is now open for the 14th edition of the Fernando Pacheco Jordão Jovem Journalist Award, promoted by the Vladimir Herzog Institute in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, for its acronym in Portuguese) and four other organizations. Brazilian students must present proposals for coverage on the theme "The cries the world […]
“The Gabo Foundation, an institution created in 1995 by Colombian journalist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, officially opened the 2022 Gabo Award cycle. The competing works must have been published for the first time between July 1, 2021 and June 7, 2022 and be entered to the award platform before the deadline: Wed., […]
"Daniel Villatoro speaks the same way he has lived: with passion, criteria, perseverance, and maturity. He is only 29 years old and has not only led a growing LGBT rights organization in Guatemala, launched a magazine that addresses these issues, won various awards, but is also one of the five winners of the “Journalist of […]
"Roche and the Gabo Foundation tech department invite all interested parties to participate in the tenth edition of the Roche Award 2022, which recognizes excellence and quality journalistic coverage on health issues. [...] Registrations will be available from March 28th to June 27th, 2022. Journalists interested in participating may submit their work in the categories […]
"The Maria Moors Cabot Prize is open for nominations. The deadline for submission is March 25, 2022. This award is given to journalists who, in their work and throughout their careers, have contributed to promoting greater Inter-American understanding and relations on the American continent. [...] The Cabot Prizes Board looks for exceptional and courageous reporting […]
"The investigation and the 'live' storytelling of the great challenges facing Ibero-America and the world such as violence, the environmental struggle, political corruption, social rights or cultural integration, are the focus of the six works awarded this Wednesday, March 3 with the International King of Spain Journalism Awards 2022. The winners, from a total of […]
Three Latin American media won the Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2021 by WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers). Winners are selected from regional awards, awarded by WAN-IFRA in 2021 in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and South Asia. Agência Lupa, from Brazil, won the global award for Best Data Visualization, […]
“After a year of challenges and changes in the development of the Roche Prize for Health Journalism, comes the ninth edition in which the stimulus to health journalism in Latin America and the news that have enriched the contest will be strengthened after almost one decade of existence and 3,431 professionals registered. Applications will be […]
"Venezuela: The Smugglers' Paradise" took home the Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association in the Feature: Small Newsroom category. The journalistic project was a partnership between Venezuela's Correo del Caroni, De Correspondent of the Netherlands, InfoAmazonia in Brazil, the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald in the U.S. and Runrun.es in Venezuela. It was the […]
“The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) presented its 2020 awards on Wednesday, including a special prize posthumously awarded to the at least 130 journalists and press workers who died in the Americas from COVID-19 as a result of working 'bravely' in the middle of the pandemic." Read original article (in Spanish)