Deadline: 1-Aug-22
Entries are now open for the 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) KAVLI Science Journalism Awards.
AAAS has been recognizing excellence in science journalism since 1945. Thanks to a doubling of their endowment by The Kavli Foundation in 2015, they accept entries from journalists worldwide in all categories.
Categories
- Science Reporting – Large Outlet
- Science Reporting – Small Outlet
- Science Reporting – In-Depth
- Magazine
- Video In-Depth Reporting
- Video Spot News/Feature Reporting
- Audio
- Children’s Science News
Prize Details
- Two awards will be given in each of the Categories, a Gold Award worth $5,000 and a Silver Award worth $3,500. (One winner for each award also may receive reasonable travel, airport transfer, hotel, and per diem meal expenses to attend an awards ceremony in February 2023 if such ceremony is held on-site rather than virtually.)
- Winners shall be solely responsible for all taxes and fees or costs associated with any prize, including but not limited to any federal or state or other income tax.
- International winners of the award shall solely be responsible for obtaining any passports or other travel documents that may be required if the award ceremony is held on-site.
Eligibility Criteria
- The awards are open to reporters doing work for independent news organizations around the world. Articles must be readily accessible to the public by subscription, newsstand sales or online access. If the submitted work was published or broadcast in a language other than English, you must provide an English translation.
- You cannot enter the same story or stories in two different categories, nor may you enter a story both as an individual entry and as part of a group of stories.
- Entry limit: Entrants may submit up to THREE entries in all (across one or more categories).
- The following are not eligible for the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards:
- Items published originally in AAAS publications or produced by AAAS.
- Items by employees of AAAS (including those on the masthead of Science magazine) or The Kavli Foundation.
- Winners of the 2021 awards are not eligible. Individuals who have won three times are no longer eligible.
- They encourage entries that deal in a substantive way with underlying issues involving science and its role in society.
- Commentaries, opinion pieces or articles in advocacy publications are not eligible for the award.
- Books, book chapters, book excerpts and e-books are not eligible.
- stories written by public information officers or freelancers for university-funded research magazines or Web sites are not eligible for the awards.
- The awards are for professional journalists producing content aimed at a general audience. Scientist-authors who are not on staff at media outlets or who do not do freelance science writing as a full-time pursuit generally do not qualify for the contest.
For more information, visit https://sjawards.aaas.org/enter
