The Sigma Awards is a competition to celebrate the best data journalism in the world. Entering its second year, it is also there to empower, uplift and enlighten the global community of data journalists.
Application deadline: 1st February 2021
The international data journalism community faces many challenges and we want to support them. This year's Sigma Awards will focus on highlighting the best data journalism on the pandemic (and creating an international database of these projects), as well as other topics such as politics, sport and the environment.
We want to bring together a community and support those who work with data, whether it's COVID-19 - because it's one of our community's priorities at the moment - or any other topic.
Sigma Price 2021
- Spotlight on the world's best data journalism, with a real focus on those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. A multitude of fascinating projects to tackle COVID-19 have been launched in recent months in all regions of the world. We want to celebrate this great work, share it with our community and have journalists learn from each other's projects;
- Building a community that lasts beyond the rewards themselves;
- Set up webinars, chats and gather online resources to solve the urgent problems faced by journalists today
- . Use the prices as a way to unite, galvanise and expand data journalism communities around the world. At the centre of this project is the Sigma Awards team's ambition to promote collaboration and discussion between members of our community.
Rules
- Entries must be for works published in the calendar year 2020.
- Entries must be made using the online form.
- Entries must be received by 1st February 2021 at 23:59.m. ET to be eligible.
- Candidates can take part in as many projects as they wish.
- Nominations should specify whether they are considered a large or small newsroom or as an individual, if any. Small newsrooms are defined as those with 35 or fewer journalists (including regular freelancers/contractors) or equivalent (for example, two part-time freelancers count as one person).
- Organisations that don't meet the criteria of this definition but feel they belong in the small newsroom category can request a waiver by sending a letter from the editor explaining their reasoning to Marianne Bouchart, Executive Director of the marianne@sigmaawards.org.
- Collaborative work should be presented as one big essay.
- Participating organisations grant the Sigma Awards the right to use their material in their tenders, including the organisation's name and logo, on the Sigma Awards website and in other marketing materials surrounding the awards.
- 2020 has been a special year for all members of the data journalism community, and we hope to receive a large number of entries in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we would like to make it clear that all data journalism projects, regardless of their subject matter, can be entered into the competition.
Price
- A cash prize of US$ 5,000 will be distributed among the winners. They will also receive a certificate and speaking opportunities at our online events.
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