Entries open for AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards

Categories

• Science Reporting – Large Outlet: Text pieces in print or online from large newspapers with a circulation of more than 150,000 (largest single day, including digital subscriptions) and digital-only publications with a regional or national audience. Online-only news outlets with 50 or more staff employees are included in this category. An entry can include a themed series (submit three parts for judging) or up to three related or unrelated pieces combined. Total of 5,000 words or less.
• Science Reporting – Small Outlet: Text pieces in print or online from small newspapers with circulation of 150,000 or less (largest single day, including digital subscriptions) and digital-only publications with a local audience. Online-only news outlets with fewer than 50 staff employees are included in this category. An entry can include a themed series (submit three parts for judging) or up to three related or unrelated pieces combined. Total of 5,000 words or less.
• Science Reporting – In-Depth: An entry of more than 5,000 words for a newspaper, magazine or online site. Entry can be a single story; submission of two or three related or unrelated pieces as a single entry of more than 5,000 words; or a themed series of 5,000 words or more (submit no more than three parts for judging).
• Magazine: Stories in print magazines, on magazine websites or in digital-only magazines. 5,000 words or less. An entry can include up to three related or unrelated pieces, totaling no more than 5,000 words. Includes Sunday magazine sections of newspapers.
• Video In-Depth Reporting: Segments or programs longer than 20 minutes. Includes stand-alone online videos.
• Video Spot News/Feature Reporting: Segments or programs totaling 20 minutes or less. Includes stand-alone online videos.
• Audio: Radio or Podcast.
• Children’s Science News: Open to journalists working in any medium – print, broadcast or online – for excellence in reporting science news for children, including young teens up to age 14.

Eligibility Criteria

• The awards are open to reporters doing work for independent news organizations around the world. Articles must be readily accessible to the public by subscription, newsstand sales or online access. If the submitted work was published or broadcast in a language other than English, you must provide an English translation.
• At their discretion, judges and AAAS staff may move entries between categories.
• Access to entries: If an outlet has a paywall or limited access (such as no more than five free stories per month), the entrant must provide password access for the story links or, preferably, readable PDFs of the content. Failure to provide accessible content will result in disqualification.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Items published originally in AAAS publications or produced by AAAS.
• Items by employees of AAAS (including those on the masthead of Science magazine) or the Kavli Foundation.
• Winners of the 2023 awards are not eligible. Individuals who have won three times are no longer eligible.

Application Requirements

• Entry limit: Entrants may submit up to three entries in all (across one or more categories).
• You cannot enter the same story or stories in two different categories, nor may you enter a story both as an individual entry and as part of a group of stories.
• Translations: If the submitted work was published or broadcast in a language other than English, you must provide an English translation.
• Access to entries: If an outlet has a paywall or limited access (such as no more than five free stories per month), the entrant must provide password access for the story links or, preferably, readable PDFs of the content. Failure to provide accessible content will result in disqualification.
• For all entries, including broadcast entries, you must ensure that Dropbox links or other storage links (and their passwords) do not expire during the screening and judging period (1 August 2024 to 30 October 2024).

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