How THE YOUNG
ARE helpING
local news media
survive
This edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize journalism award spotlights successful youth collaborations that contribute to the survival of local news outlets.
Our international jury chose 18 winners at Gold, Silver and Community award levels from 16 countries.
WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED
ON 4 SEPTEMBER
More than a dozen partners (listed below) helped get the word out about the award and will do the same about the eventual laureates. They are also providing a jury member.
Partners will use the results to strengthen their own programs that work toward making sure citizens everywhere get trustworthy local news.
GLOBAL PARTNERS
REGIONAL PARTNERS
The Prize makes a habit
of RECOGNIZING News media
that collaborate with youth
This is not the first time the Global Youth & News Media prize has sought excellent cases of news media collaborating with youth for the betterment of a journalistic effort.
In 2018, our very first award went jointly to the United States digital edition of the London-based The Guardian and The Eagle Eye, a student news operation at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In 2018, that school 2018 suffered a mass shooting in which 17 people were killed. The Parkland students contributed live digital coverage to The Guardian US of an anti-gun violence demonstration in Washington, D.C. [Middle picture above]
A 2019 award went to a collaboration between a broadcaster and the country's journalism students to produce the Top Story investigative reporting reality show. [Picture at left above]
That same year, The Trace in the US was recognized for publishing the 1200 portraits that teenage journalists across the country wrote about the American children and youth killed by guns in a 12-month period.
In the United Kingdom. [Picture above at right] The Student View project in the UK also received an award for producing 72 “pop-up” newsrooms in British schools in just three years to cover local news.