- Prize Amount – $20,000
- Deadline – April 30, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing has announced its $20,000 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award for the year 2025.
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The award, to be given annually, will recognize and support reporting and writing that embodies the high standards exemplified by Sharon Begley (1956–2021), a science journalist of unflinching dedication, skill, moral clarity, and commitment to mentoring.
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Benefits
- The budget may include:
- Reporting expenses
- Examples: travel, equipment, data, FOIA costs
- Living expenses during writing and pitching
- Pitching expenses (for example, meeting with editors to pitch a book proposal)
- Multimedia production costs
Award Information
- The Sharon Begley Award comprises a career prize, recognizing the accomplishments of a mid-career science journalist, and a grant of at least $20,000 to enable the winner to undertake a significant reporting project.
Eligible Projects
- Eligible work includes:
- News
- Features
- Heavily reported columns, analysis, and other commentary
- Newsletters
- Book chapters (not entire books)
- Podcasts
- Video, audio, and multimedia storytelling
Eligibility:
- Candidates should have been working journalists for at least 8–10 years, including significant experience in science journalism, or provide equivalent evidence of commitment to the field. Time spent as an editor counts toward eligibility.
- CASW aims to consider a highly competitive and highly diverse pool of candidates and encourages all mid-career science journalists to consider entering. Toward that end, there is no entry fee, and applications will be accepted online. Staff and independent journalists living and working anywhere in the world are eligible if they have published in news outlets that are available to international audiences. Although the award can be won only once, there is no limit of the number of times one can enter.
- Journalists who have served on the Sharon Begley Award Advisory Committee become eligible three years after their service ends.
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