- Prize Amount – up to $3,000
- Deadline – June 07, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
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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