DEADLINE: The Planet Award, Global Youth & News Media Prize

Nominations are open for the 2023 Global Youth & News Media Prize. Educators and news organizations will be honored by a special Press Freedom Teaching Award in the 2023 edition of the Global Youth & News Media Prize.

The award will recognize excellence in making sure that students develop a thorough understanding of the crucial role of journalism in society and of the sometimes-deadly risks for people who do this work. This award will serve as the news/literacy category for this year’s prize. The News/Media Literacy Award seeks to honor frontline teachers and news media organizations in the quest to help students understand the “why” of press freedom.

Global Youth & News Media Prize Background

In 2021, Global Youth & News Media Prize created a Press Freedom Teacher award in its News/Media Literacy category to recognize the front-line teachers who were making sure students learned that quality journallism is a good thing to have around and that some people faced grave dangers just to do that job.

The first awards went to three teachers in 2021 and were given in memory of Scott Schurz (1936-2021), a local and global champion of both press freedom and youth engagement. The laureates were: Janis Schacter (USA), Marisabelle Bellido Terán (Bolivia) and Olawale (Ibrahim) Gbenusola (Nigeria).

Global Youth & News Media Prize Eligibility

• Open to educators at the primary or secondary level of instruction teaching in any kind of class at any kind of institution. You can nominate yourself or someone else can nominate you.
• A news outlet on any platform and organizations that represent journalists or news organizations or NGOs whose activities support those groups can enter. They expect that you will be nominating your own organization.
• Entries can be self-nominated or submitted by another entity or individual.

Deadline: July 1, 2023.