Deadline: 15-Jul-22
Entries for the 2022 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and a newly added category of professional fact-checkers – across the continent.
The African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards program honoring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, are in their ninth year.
The fact-check should conclude that a claim about an important topic, originating in or relevant to Africa, is either misleading or wrong.
Categories
The awards have three categories, with honors going to a winner and a runner-up. The categories are:
- Fact -Check of the Year by a Working Journalist
- Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker
- Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist
Award Information
- The winners of the working journalist and professional fact-checker categories will each get a prize of US$3,000.
- The runners-up will receive $1,500. The winner of the student journalist category will be awarded $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist
- Only journalists who do not work for fact-checking organizations are eligible to enter in this category.
- The entry must have been published or broadcast for the first time by a media– or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
- The work may be published in print or online, broadcast on the radio or television, or published in a blog.
- Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker
- Journalists, fact-checkers or researchers who work for fact-checking organizations or organizations aimed at uncovering dis- or misinformation must enter in this category.
- The entry must have been published or broadcast for the first time by a media- or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
- The work may be published in print or online, broadcast on the radio or television, or published in a blog.
- Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist
- To enter the student category, candidates must be from Africa and younger than 35 by 15 July 2022.
- Student candidates must have been enrolled as a student at a university, college or other tertiary institution at some period from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
- This category excludes part-time students who are working as professional fact-checkers or journalists. Such candidates must enter one of the other two categories.
- The entry must be an original piece of fact-checking journalism, produced as course work or first published or broadcast on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
- The work may be published in a blog, student publication or by a media- or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa.
For more information, visit https://africacheck.org/what-we-do/african-fact-checking-awards