Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism 2024 || Apply Now

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism (hereinafter, the Prize) was launched on 16 October 2020 as a tribute to the Maltese anti-corruption investigative journalist and blogger who was assassinated in a car bomb attack in 2017.

The Prize rewards on a yearly basis outstanding journalism that promotes or defends the core principles and values of the European Union such as human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law, and human rights.

Prize

• The €20,000 annual prize will be awarded on October 2024 at the European Parliament of Strasbourg to journalists or teams of journalists based in the European Union. The European Parliament will cover the winner’s travel costs.

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Eligibility for Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize

• open to individual professional journalists or teams of professional journalists of any nationality. Applications may be submitted by authors themselves or by professional media organisations and associations on their behalf.
• Entries must have been published/broadcast in print, audiovisual or online media outlets based in one of the 27 EU Member States between 1 September 2023 and 31 July 2024.
• Entries may be submitted in all EU official languages. A summary in English (500 words maximum) must be provided in the submission form.
• Entries may have one or several authors. Applications may be submitted by authors themselves or by professional media organisations and associations on their behalf.
• Should a journalist or team of journalists wish to participate with more than one entry, they are allowed to do so. However, they must submit a separate application per entry.
• Plagiarism, which includes the unauthorised use of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own, or any infringement of third parties’ intellectual prope

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Evaluation criteria of Daphne Caruana Galizia prize 

Evaluation will be based on the following criteria:

• Relevance of the topic for European society and contribution to the promotion of EU values and principles.
• Quality of content, which should be well documented, accurate, factual, and based on a variety of sources.
• Quality in terms of language, style, and structure.
• Original and in-depth approach to the topic.

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