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 the first two editions.
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THE ProjecTS
Our World Teenage Reporting Project aims to further news media work that serves, supports and both attracts and learns from young audiences by amplifying the work of teenage journalists in covering the champions among that generation..
The latest edition, Who is Saving the Planet?, features profiles of teenagers (and others who teenagers deem worthy) who are champions in the fight to save the planet. It was launched on World Environment Day and will continue until United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) this fall.
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.
The second edition was The Tolerance Profile Challenge, launched on the United Nations International Day for Tolerance in November and spanning Human Rights Month in December. It features profiles of champions in the quest to get along with stories showcased on the International Day of Education.
Our main media partner is News Decoder, a global educational news service for young people. Founder Nelson Graves noted, "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."
12 newsrooms win in 2021 The Journalism Award category for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic for children.
Five organizations received gold level awards, with another seven receiving sliver level awards.
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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 received the top honour in 2019 News/Media Literacy Award category.
Other laureates were the Top Story journalism student investigative reporting reality show (Kenya), the News Literacy Project's virtual Checkology classroom (USA) and the Troll Factory simulation from Finland's public broadcaster, YLE. The awards were presented in Paris at NewsXchange.
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The "Since Parkland" project in the United States received the 2019 Journalism Award category.
Other laureates were The Children's Radio Foundation (South Africa), Quds News Network (Palestine) and News Network from the Danish Broadcasting Corp (Denmark.) The awards were presented in Paris at NewsXchange.
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THE INAUGURAL 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.
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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