Deadline: 14-Nov-22
The IJ4EU fund has opened nominations for its annual award celebrating the best of European cross-border investigative journalism, with three cash prizes of €5,000 available for teams that collaborate on transnational issues in the public interest.
Anyone is welcome to nominate investigative projects, including their own journalistic work, as long as the projects were published via a credible medium (e.g. print, broadcast television or radio, online, documentary film, multimedia etc).
Benefit
- With a pot of cash prizes totalling €15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The eligibility criteria are as follows:
- Nominated investigations must have been published between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022.
- Nominated investigations must involve journalists from at least two EU member states or at least one EU member state and one EU candidate country.
- Nominated investigations need to highlight issues of common interest to citizens of at least two EU member states or at least one EU member state and one EU candidate country, and be seen to have strengthened European media.
- Nominated investigations may have been published in any language. However, for investigations not published in English, a translation in English of the core investigation/summary must be provided.
- Nominations should include any significant challenge to the honesty, accuracy or fairness of an entry, such as published letters, corrections, retractions as well as responses by the relevant newspaper or website.
- A team of independent researchers will start to evaluate the impact of the nominated projects in mid-November. They will then be ranked according to:
- The investigation’s impact. This is assessed according to political reaction (for example, in the European Parliament or national legislatures); advocacy reaction (for example, among NGOs or activists); public reaction (for example, on social media or within an industry); and media reaction (among outlets not involved in the investigation).
- The effectiveness of cross-border collaboration. How closely and productively did outlets and journalists work together?
- The process behind the investigation: challenges faced, obstacles overcome, techniques pioneered, information uncovered, sources relied on and so on.
For more information, visit https://www.investigativejournalismforeu.net/nominations-open-for-ij4eu-impact-award-2022/