Deadline: August 11, 2023 .

Since 2013 their Young Journalist Award has celebrated the outstanding young talent in the media profession. The award is an opportunity for those brilliant young journalists to demonstrate a wealth of investigative journalism, and, in doing so hold power to account. 

The annual competition is organised in partnership with the UK’s Foreign Press Association (FPA) and is presented at their annual awards event in London.  

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. The competition is open journalists aged 30 and under.
2. Applicants from countries with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of less than USD20,000, to send in their best stories.
3. All entrants should be reporting from their home country as defined by the GNI or, if not in their country of origin, in another country fitting the same criteria. 

BENEFITS

The three finalists are flown to London to attend the gala award night in London, along with a host of other potential award winners and leading figures from the world of journalism. 

APPLICATION

Journalists who enter for the FPA award will need to submit a written statement of no more than 200 words per story giving a summary of the content and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast, should also be submitted.

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