May 10, African Fact-checking Awards for Journalistic Excellence in Africa

Applications are now open for the 2024 African Fact-Checking Awards. The African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards programme honouring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, are in their eleventh year.

Requirements

Entries for the 2024 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers – across the continent.

To qualify, entries must have been first published or broadcast in the period from 1 July 2023 to 14 July 2024. The fact-check should conclude that a claim about an important topic, originating in or relevant to Africa, is either misleading or wrong.

To be eligible, entries for this competition must:

Be the original work of the individual or team identified in the entry form as the author.

Expose a claim on an important topic that originated in or is relevant to Africa as misleading or wrong.

Be an original piece of fact-checking journalism first published or broadcast on any date from 1 July 2023 to 14 July 2024.

Be received by the organisers before midnight GMT on 14 July 2023. Late entries will not be accepted.

Be received by the organisers via the official entry form. No other means of sending in entries is allowed.

Fact-checks can be published/broadcast in any language, but entry forms must be completed in either English or French. However, should the fact-checking report not be in English or French, a written translation must be submitted with the entry.

By submitting an entry, the entrant confirms that they are the authors of the work, and that in the case of any dispute about this, this is entirely the entrant’s responsibility

Reports published by Africa Check are not eligible for the competition.

Judges reserve the right to move an entry from one category to another.

Candidates can only enter for the awards in one category per year, but can submit more than one report if they choose.

Should the entrant win a prize in the awards, we will send the money to a bank account to be nominated by them.

At the shortlisting stage a representative of the jury may seek clarification on some points.

Entrants who are found to be unethical about any aspect related to their entry will be disqualified.

Entrants must agree to do media interviews and/or reports about the awards if they win.

Entrants for the awards must agree to accept the judges’ decision as final.

Categories

The awards have three categories, with honours going to a winner and a runner-up. The categories are:

Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist

Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker

Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist

Prize:

The winners of the working journalist and professional fact-checker categories will each get a prize of US$3,000.

The runners-up will receive $1,500. The winner of the student journalist category will be awarded $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; African Fact-checking Awards for Journalistic Excellence in Africa

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