Big Opportunity for Journalists in Greece

By: Wafaa Fayez

CAIRO, Jan. 28 (SEE)- The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide. Started in 2012, the competition is organised by the Global Editors Network, with support from the Google News Lab, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and in partnership with Chartbeat and Microsoft.

Previous winning organisations include BuzzFeed, Quartz, The New York Times, The Guardian, ProPublica, La Nación as well as smaller organisations such as Ojo Publico, Civio Foundation and Convoca.

Simon Rogers, Data Editor at Google News Lab, is the

director of the competition which takes place under the presidency of Reginald

Chua, Executive Editor, Editorial Operations, Data and Innovation at Thomson

Reuters. Marianne Bouchart, founder and director of HEI-DA, is the

manager of the competition.

Submissions

for the 2019 edition are now open and data journalism teams from around the

world can apply via this form (you’ll

need to be logged in on the Data Journalism Community to access the form, to

login or register, go here).

This year’s prize? An all-expenses-covered trip to Athens, Greece, and

the GEN Summit +

Data Journalism Awards 2019 ceremony, taking place in June 2019.

You can get in touch with the competition manager Marianne Bouchart at

[email protected].