Deadline: 5 April 2013
The Data Journalism Awards contributes to setting high standards and highlighting the best practices in data journalism, and demonstrates the value of data journalism among editors and media executives. Check out the infographic below detailing the DJA 2012, along with the basics of what you need to know for the DJA 2013. This year, the Data Journalism Awards have two great new jury members (Simon Rogers and Liliana Bounegru), a new category (Data journalism website), and a new prize (The Public Choice). We also included a great new feature this year: the possibility to browse the gallery of 2012 shortlisted entries, and to share your favorite DJA projects on the social networks! The call for applications is currently open – submit your work now before 5 April 2013!
FOUR CATEGORIES OF AWARDS:
TIMELINE:
The Data Journalism Awards (DJA) is the first international contest recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide.
By recognising outstanding work and editorial excellence in the field of data journalism, the DJA seeks to:
The Data Journalism Awards are given for outstanding work in the field of data journalism in any media worldwide. They reward outstanding examples of data driven investigations, data driven applications and storytelling with data visualisation, which cover matters relevant to society and aim to have results or an impact at a societal level.
COMPETITION RULES:
For queries: alaurent@globaleditorsnetwork.org
For submissions: via the online entry form
Website: http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/
The Data Journalism Awards contributes to setting high standards and highlighting the best practices in data journalism, and demonstrates the value of data journalism among editors and media executives. Check out the infographic below detailing the DJA 2012, along with the basics of what you need to know for the DJA 2013. This year, the Data Journalism Awards have two great new jury members (Simon Rogers and Liliana Bounegru), a new category (Data journalism website), and a new prize (The Public Choice). We also included a great new feature this year: the possibility to browse the gallery of 2012 shortlisted entries, and to share your favorite DJA projects on the social networks! The call for applications is currently open – submit your work now before 5 April 2013!
FOUR CATEGORIES OF AWARDS:
- Data-driven investigative journalism
- Data storytelling (text, visualization, etc.)
- Data-driven applications (mobile or web)
- Data journalism website or section
TIMELINE:
- 14 December 2012 - Submission period open
- 5 April 2013 - Submission period closed
- 11-25 April 2013 - Pre-jury selection in progress
- 27 April 2013 - Nominees announced
- 15-30 May 2013 - Jury decisions in progress
- 1 June 2013 - Six awards chosen
- 20 June 2013 - Awards ceremony (Paris, FR)
The Data Journalism Awards (DJA) is the first international contest recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide.
By recognising outstanding work and editorial excellence in the field of data journalism, the DJA seeks to:
- Contribute to setting high standards and highlighting the best practices in data journalism.
- Demonstrate the value of data journalism among editors and media executives.
The Data Journalism Awards are given for outstanding work in the field of data journalism in any media worldwide. They reward outstanding examples of data driven investigations, data driven applications and storytelling with data visualisation, which cover matters relevant to society and aim to have results or an impact at a societal level.
- Media companies, non-profit organisations and freelancers or individuals are all eligible for the Data Journalism Awards.
- Works produced by individuals or teams of staffers from media companies and non-profit organisations, as well as freelancers or individuals are all eligible for entry.
- Works that are the result of a collaboration between organisations may also be submitted.
- Those works produced by staffers or freelancers collaborating with government agencies, business or trade organisations with a stake (financial or of other nature) in the issue at hand are not eligible.
- Works that include significant input from the members of the jury will not be accepted for entry into the competition.
COMPETITION RULES:
- Entries may be submitted between 14 December 2012 and 5 April 2013. The deadline for entries is 5 April 2013 at 23h59 GMT.
- All work must have been published or aired between 10 April 2012 and 5 April 2013.
- All submissions must be in English. Entries in languages other than English will be accepted provided that they are accompanied by translations of the work. Words included in graphics, databases and applications must also be translated. Radio material must be transcribed in English and video material must contain English subtitles. If a work originally published in a language other than English passes the pre-jury selection stage, applicants may be asked to provide additional information and translations.
- Entries are allowed to have been published on any other media platform: online, radio, audio, broadcast, print or a combination of platforms.
- Entries are allowed to be an individual work or a series of works.
- There is no limit to the amount of entries that can be submitted by one applicant. Applicants may submit the same entry to several categories.
- There are no submission fees, however translation costs may be incurred for works published in languages other than English, which will need to be covered by the applicant.
For queries: alaurent@globaleditorsnetwork.org
For submissions: via the online entry form
Website: http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/
