Deadline: 22 January 2025
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard’s has announced its Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism for the year 2025.
The purpose of the annual award is to encourage fairness in news coverage by American journalists and news organizations.
Award Information
- The winner receives $10,000.
- Second and third place finalists receive $1,000 each.
Eligibility Criteria
- Entries may be a single story, a photograph, an editorial or a commentary; a series of stories, photographs, editorials or commentaries; or a body of work by an individual journalist.
- Submitters should consider all aspects of the journalistic process: reporting, writing, editing, headlines, photographs and illustrations, and presentation.
- The guidelines for the Taylor Fairness Award do not offer a definition of fairness. This is deliberate, recognizing that elements of fairness in journalism are diverse and do not easily lend themselves to a precise definition for a journalism competition.
Application Requirements
- There are many ways to define work that can be held up as an example of fairness. A letter explaining clearly why the entry is exemplary of fairness and how the work was developed, reported and presented to readers in the context of fairness is required. Also describe any special obstacles overcome in obtaining information as well as the impact of the articles on the public interest, such as official investigations and reforms.
- All submissions must have been published in a U.S. newspaper or magazine or on the newspaper or magazine’s website during 2024. Web-based news organizations may also submit entries, but no broadcast-only entries are allowed. The principal audience for all entries should be readers rather than listeners or viewers.
For more information, visit Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
