Striding into its fourth year, the Sigma Awards celebrates the best data journalism from around the world. It’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.
Donor Name: Sigma Awards
Country: Global
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 01/19/2023
Size of the Grant: US$5,000
Details:
The international data journalism community is facing many challenges, and they want to support them. This year’s Sigma Awards will be about highlighting the very best data journalism done about the pandemic (and building an international database record of such projects), the Russia-Ukraine war, but also those covering other topics such as politics, sports, or the environment.
Sigma Awards want to bring together a community, and support those working with data, whether it’s on COVID-19 or international conflicts — because that’s one of the priorities for community at the moment — or on any other subject.
What’s the prize?
A US$5,000 cash prize will be split among winners. Winning participants will also be flown to Perugia, Italy to attend and take part in the International Journalism Festival 2023.
Criteria
Here are the criteria for the Sigma Awards 2022:
- Entries must be for work published in calendar year 2022 (between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022)
- Entries have to be submitted via online form.
- Applicants can enter as many projects as they want.
- Entries have to specify if they qualify as a large or a small newsroom or as an individual, where applicable. Small newsrooms are defined as those with 35 or fewer journalists (including regular freelancers/contractors), or equivalent (e.g., two half-time freelancers count as one person.)
- Collaborative work has to be entered as a large newsroom.
- Entering organizations grant The Sigma Awards the right to use their material in their entry, including the organization’s name and logo, on The Sigma Awards website and other marketing material around the awards.
- 2022 has been another special year for all members of the data journalism community, and they expect to receive a large number of entries tackling the COVID-19 pandemic or the Russia-Ukraine war. However, they’d like to specify that all data journalism projects, regardless of their topics, can be entered into the competition.
Other considerations
The judges appreciate short, concise, and well-curated entries that pare the work to its essentials.
For more information, visit 2023 Sigma Awards.
