The latest edition of the Journalism award bestowed special recognition for outstanding achievement by a USA youth news organization and also celebrated youth collaborations worldwide that help local news survive.
In 2025, The Global Youth & News Media Prize board bestowed its second ever special award, this time to the Student Reporting Labs (SRL) project of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for outstanding achievement in journalism.
The prize honors both SRL's history and its determination to continue despite defunding by United States legislators.
How THE YOUNG
ARE helpING
local news media
survive
This edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize journalism award [it a spotlight on successful youth collaborations that contributed to the survival of local news outlets.
Our international jury chose 18 winners at Gold, Silver and Community award levels from 16 countries. Winners were announced in Septembeer 2025.
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.
Nor is it the first time our board voted for a special award.
In 2018, our board voted to give our very first award 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 jury award went to a collaboration in Kenya 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, our jury recognized The Trace in the USA 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.
Also, The Student View project in the United Kingdom received an award for producing 72 “pop-up” newsrooms in British schools in just three years to cover local news.