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We are driven by a journalistic imperative and a common goal: Content and Engagement First. To that end, we support all kinds of organizations and media outlets, to define a vision for the future of journalism
and enhance its quality through innovation and cooperation. Freedom of
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to enhance press freedom worldwide.
Who is eligible for the prize?
The Data Journalism Awards
rewards outstanding work in the field of data journalism in any media
worldwide. They reward examples of data driven investigations, data
driven applications and storytelling with data visualisation, which
cover matters relevant to society and aim to have 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.
The DJA administrators have the final authority to determine whether an entry is eligible or not.
Competition Rules
Entries may be submitted between 20 January 2013 and 4 April 2014. The deadline for entries is 4 April 2014 at 23h59 GMT.
All work must have been published or aired between 10 April 2013 and 4 April 2014.
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. During the pre-selection,
the jury will choose which category is most adequate for your
submission.
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.
