Applications are now open for the 2025 Sigma Awards. An international competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. It is also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists. Sigma Awards 2025 submissions now open.

Requirements

  • Entries must be for work published in calendar year 2024 (between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024)
  • Entries have to be submitted via our online form.
  • Entries have to be received by February 28th, 2025 at 11:59pm ET, to qualify.
  • 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 (eg, two half-time freelancers count as one person.)
  • Organizations that do not qualify under this definition but who believe they belong in the small newsroom category may petition for an exception by sending a letter from the editor-in-chief explaining his or her rationale to sigmas@gijn.org.
  • Collaborative work has to be entered as a large newsroom.

Prize

  • The overall cash prize is US$5,000, which will be distributed among the winners.

Method of Application

Visit the Official Webpage

Application Deadline: February 28, 2025.