African Fact-Checking Awards 2025

Entries for the 2025 African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards programme honouring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, are now open to journalists, journalism students, and professional fact-checkers across the continent.

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The awards have three categories, with honours going to a winner and a runner-up. The categories are:

  • Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist
  • Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker
  • Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist

Awards

  • The winners of the working journalist and professional fact-checker categories will each get a prize of US$3,000. The runners-up will receive $1,500.
  • The winner of the student journalist category will be awarded $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000.

Eligibility:

  • To be eligible, entries for this competition must:
    • Be the original work of the individual or team identified in the entry form as the author.
    • Expose a claim on an important topic that originated in or is relevant to Africa as misleading or wrong.
    • Be an original piece of fact-checking journalism first published or broadcast on any date from 1 May 2024 to 7 June 2025.

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