The AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards honour “professional journalists for distinguished reporting on the sciences, engineering, and mathematics”. They’re open to journalists around the world, and categories include newspapers, magazines, television, audio, video, online and children’s science news. Entries for the 2018 awards are due by 1 August; details are here.
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Written anything about global food security in the past year? The Crawford Fund’s Food Security Journalism Award recognises work that explores the theme of global food security, including food supply, production, R&D, trade, food loss and waste, biosecurity, training, and policy issues. The entry window closes on June 15, the winner receives a ‘seeing is believing’ visit to a country where they can experience and report on Australia’s work in international agricultural development.” Entries must have been published or broadcast between June 4, 2017-2018. More details available here.
Written or reported anything about food, agriculture, hunger, obesity, food waste or starvation in the last year? Entries to the Food Sustainability Media Awards, from the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Barilla, close this Thursday 31 May, with EU10,000 up for grabs in prizes. The awards honour reporting on issues such as obesity, hunger, agriculture, food waste and starvation, in published or unpublished written articles, multimedia or photography. More details here.
The entry window for CancerWorld magazine’s annual journalism award closes soon (May 1), so any journalists who have done in-depth or investigative pieces on cancer are encouraged to get their entries in soon.
The categories for the award are patient and carer experience; research, science and treatment; policy, services and affordability; and prevention. The award is open to print, online, radio, video and television journalists, and seeks entries “that move beyond documenting experience, science, policy and practice. We want to find work that challenges, addresses urgent questions, increases awareness and prompts change. We are particularly looking for serious investigative journalism.”
More information is available here.
The American Geophysical Union sponsors three journalism awards – the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for news writing, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for feature writing, and the Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism (not offered in 2018). The awards are open to any journalist in any country, writing in any language, and entries are due by March 15, 2018.
The international magazine Cancer World, published by the European School of Oncology, runs a journalism award that “encourages, celebrates and rewards journalists who deliver insights into the personal and social impact of the disease, and efforts to change policy, practice or advocacy.”
The award is open to print, online, radio, video or television, published between October 2016 and April 2018, in categories of patient and carer experience; research, science and treatment; policy, services and affordability; and prevention.
The prize in each category is €1500 and the overall winner will also be funded to attend the 2018 ECCO Summit in Vienna (7th-9th September 2018) to receive their award. Entries close 1 May, 2018, and more information is available here.
Entries are now invited for the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes – Australia’s ‘Oscars of Science’ – which include a prize for science journalism, sponsored by the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. The Eureka Prize for Science Journalism is awarded to an Australian journalist or team of journalists “whose work is assessed as having most effectively communicated scientific or technological issues to the public”.
The prize, worth $10,000, can be awarded to a single piece or a body of work, that must have been published or broadcast in the Australian media for the first time between May 4, 2017 and May 4, 2018. The entry window closes on May 4, 2018, and the entry details are here.
The World Federation of Science Journalists is offering five international scholarships for journalists to attend the Kavli Prize week in Oslo (1-6 September, 2018). The Kavli Prize has been awarded every two years since 2008 in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The prize consists of 1 million US dollars in each field, and a gold medal presented by the King of Norway.
The winners of the journalism scholarships will get the opportunity to interview the laureates and have access to all the events, including the award ceremony and the banquet. The scholarships cover travel, registration fees and accommodation, with support from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. Entries close Monday 15 January, and application details are available here.
The entry window for New South Publishing’s 2018 Best Australian Science Writing anthology is now open, and this year’s editor John Pickrell is calling for news, features, essays, blog posts, book excerpts, scripts and poetry covering the length and breadth of science.
Published pieces must have appeared in print or online in 2017 or 2018 and authors must be Australian residents or Australian citizens living overseas. Pieces in press, but not yet published will also be considered. The closing date for submissions is 31 March 2018. Entries published between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 will also be eligible for the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing, which offers a first prize of $7000 and two runner-up prizes of $1500 each
Entry details are available here.
The Association of British Science Writers has invited entries for its annual Science Writers Awards for Britain and Ireland, which includes work by international journalists that has been published in Britain or Ireland. The awards “aim to reward excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics journalism and writing”. They include awards for features, news, investigative journalism, science blog, and student science journalism. Entries close 31 January 2016, a shortlist will be announced mid- to late-April. More details available on the award site.