GLOBAL YOUTH
& NEWS MEDIA
THE PRIZE
The Global Youth & News Media Prize, founded in 2018, honors organizations that innovate as they strengthen engagement between news media and young people while reinforcing the role of journalism in society. In short, they celebrate news media that serve, support and both attract and learn from young audiences.
Awards in several categories were presented in 2018 and 2019. The next edition will be in 2021. More details are below.
THE ProjecTS
International projects further news media work that serves, supports and both attracts and learns from young audiences.
The latest project is The Tolerance Challenge, launched on the United Nations International Day for Tolerance. It is the second World Teenage Reporting Project, this time with teenage journalists doing profiles of champions in the quest to get along.
The first World Teenage Reporting Project > COVID-19 in which teenage journalists in 19 countries around the world produced more than 60 stories about how their peers were helping during the pandemic.
This activity fits our mission perfectly by helping news media amplify teenage voices about the positive role youth can play in a major, global phenomenon.
THE LATEST AWARDS
NOTE: The next edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize will be in 2021.
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El Surtidor of Paraguay won The Planet Award category for 2019.
Founders Alejandro Valdez, director, and Jazmin Acuña, editor, (pictured at left) accepted the award at the Eurasian Media Forum, the partner for this award.
Also honored were Dainik Jagran of India and the Young Reporters for the Environment, based in Denmark.
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The Student View of the United Kingdom won the 2019 News/Media Literacy Award category. This top award was presented at News Xchange Paris.
Also honoured were initiatives from Kenya, the United States and Finland.
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The "Since Parkland" project in the United States has won the 2019 Journalism Award category. This top award was presented at News Xchange in Paris.
Also honoured were initiatives from South Africa, Palestine and Denmark.
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THE FIRST AWARD
The Guardian US and the Eagle Eye student newsmagazine of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, USA) were the first Global Youth & News Media Prize laureates, receiving an honorary award for their joint live coverage in March 2018 of the March for Our Lives demonstration in Washington D.C. to promote gun control.
The citation read: “The Guardian and the student journalism staff of The Eagle Eye at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School worked jointly to keep young voices front and center in the live coverage of the March for Our Lives demonstration for The Guardian US by the student journalists of The Eagle Eye. This initiative provides a stunning example of a student takeover of a trusted news source that offers solid lessons for other newsrooms to dare to do something similar.”
The honorary award marked the launch of the global prize and was presented 14 November 2018 at NewsXchange, the European Broadcasting Union's premier conference that attracts top news executives from all over the world. It was held in Edinburgh and hosted by BBC News and BBC Scotland.
DETAILS HERE
FOUNDING SUPPORTERS
News-Decoder, the initiative of the French-based non-profit Nouvelles Decouvertes that provides secondary and university students with a news service and the opportunity for borderless, face-to-face discussions about important matters of the day.
The Google News Initiative, which works with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age.
The European Journalism Centre, an international non-profit headquartered in The Netherlands that connects journalists with new ideas, skills and people