THE 2025 EDITION
SPECIAL GLOBAL YOUTH & NEWS MEDIA PRIZE
for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT in JOURNALISM
> 🏆 Our board voted on June 20 2025 to honor the national Student Reporting Labs program of the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) both for its history and its determination to continue despite defunding by U.S. legislators.
DETAILS HERE FROM OUR MEDIA PARTNER NEWS DECODER
JOURNALISM AWARD THEME - How the young are helping save local news
> This edition spotlights excellence in solutions journalism partnerships between local news media and young people (university age and under) that benefit both parties, as well as the news audience.
MEDIA LITERACY AWARD THEME - Teaching Media Literacy Lesson #1
> We will again recognize those who excel at the task of making sure the young learn how and why journalism is a good thing to have around and also ensure they understand the dangers and threats some people face just to do that job
LAUNCH COMING SOON
The Media Literacy Award theme aligns with a joint effort of 40+ expert individuals and organizations to instill these key lessons in basic media literacy standards Our partners for this award will also join in this quest. DETAILS HERE.
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THE BACKGROUND
Global Youth & News Media Prize awards are given every two years to celebrate news media work that supports and both attracts and learns from young audiences. These awards honor excellence in amplifying the concerns of the young while reinforcing journalism in ways that also support democracy. They are open to any kind of news medium on any platform and run by people of any age.
Unless otherwise specified, the primary target of initiatives must be young audiences: children or teenagers depending on the award. As warranted, we also celebrate other groups, notably educators. Entries can be self-submitted or nominated by third party.
THE JOURNALISM AWARD
The enduring question focuseson breakthrough reporting with, about and/or for young audience that produces a clear, important impact and that takes a solutions journalism approach. Each edition has a specific theme, such as a Planet Award (2019) for giving hope to the young, COVID coverage for children (2021) and Climate Champion Profile Challenge (2023). The theme for 2025 is how the young are helping local news survive .
THE MEDIA LITERACY LESSON # 1 AWARD
Initiatives that effectively educate young about how and why journalism is a good thing to have around and also ensure they understand the dangers and threats some people face just to do that job. [This award,formerly the news/media award, ties to our work with 40+ expert organizations and individuals to make those tenets part of basic media literacy education. More on that here.]
SPECiAL AWARDS VOTED BY OUr BOARD
On rare occasions the Global Youth & News Media board will give special recognition to news organizations for outstanding achievement in serving the young.
PARTNERS
Our media partner from the beginning has been News Decoder, a non-profit global educational news service for young people founded in 2015 that helps them become better informed, connected and engaged. In addition, we invite like-minded organizations to join in specific awards. Here are the prize partners for 2025.
Past award partners include the European Journalism Centre, the European Broadcasting Union, the InterAmerican Press Association, WAN-IFRA Media Freedom, Schurz Communication and the Google News Initiative.