Deadline: 19-Feb-21
The Canadian Journalism Foundation is presenting the new CJF Award for Climate Solutions Reporting with the support from the founding sponsor Intact Financial Corporation.
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of their time. The impacts of global warming and extreme weather events are already being felt in Canada and are forecast by scientists to become more severe and more frequent. Beyond environmental and physical impacts, climate change is also expected to have significant economic and social impacts.
Climate change demands to be a constant and significant part of Canadian conversation and the media has a vital role to play in providing accurate, contextual information that creates the foundation for civic discourse about its scope and potential solutions being considered or implemented.
Award Details
- The award recipient will receive a $10,000 prize.
Judging Criteria
Judges will consider the following criteria in adjudicating this award:
- How does this work highlight responses and solutions to climate change? Does it shift the narrative from the problem to solutions that empower positive change?
- What evidence is there to show that the solution is working? In what ways is it not or might it not? What metrics are used and why in assessing this solution?
- What data supports the problem and the solution?
- Is the overall climate data cited accurate and is there sufficient evidence of verification? Is there a sufficient scope and diversity of sources cited?
- Judges will note that false balance can be the enemy of accuracy and truth in reporting on climate change. Trying to balance scientific consensus on climate change with views from climate deniers or others who disagree with scientific findings risks misleading news audiences
Eligibility Criteria
- Climate change is a story that matters in many spheres – an all-encompassing issue with a wide scope that can include not just the environment but also science, health, the economy, business, public policy, migration, politics and people on a local, national and global scale
- This award will be presented to a working journalist or team of journalists (employed full-time or freelance) who have been judged to have done the most to shine a spotlight on climate change and innovative solutions in Canadian print, broadcast or online news reporting in 2020.
- Entries involving more than one contributor are welcome, and will be judged as a single submission. Submissions are welcome in the following formats: article, column, online piece, editorial, op-ed, radio program, podcast, television program or documentary film.
For more information, visit https://cjf-fjc.ca/awards/cjf-award-climate-solutions-reporting
