{"id":29266,"date":"2025-05-08T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=29266"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:04:11","slug":"african-fact-checking-awards-2025-up-to-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/african-fact-checking-awards-2025-up-to-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"African Fact-Checking Awards 2025 (Up to $3,000)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Entries for the&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards have three categories, with honours going to a winner and a runner-up. The categories are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be the original work of the individual or team identified in the entry form as the author.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expose a claim on an important topic that originated in or is relevant to Africa as misleading or wrong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be an original piece of fact-checking journalism first published or broadcast on any date from\u00a01 May 2024 to 7 June 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The winner of the student journalist category will be awarded $2,000, and the runner-up $1,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Judging Criteria<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Entries are judged based on the following criteria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Significance: The significance for wider society of the claim\/statement investigated. How much does the topic matter to society at large and how serious could the consequences be if the claim wasn\u2019t fact-checked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Testing: How was the claim tested against the available evidence? Fact-checkers must take a long, hard look at the claim\/statement that was made. Fact-checking entails rigorously sifting through the publicly available evidence for and against the claim. 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Did it lead to a correction, did it have significant reach, or was it shared by other organizations or members of the media, for instance?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deadline: <\/strong>June 7th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/africacheck.org\/what-we-do\/african-fact-checking-awards\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entries for the&nbsp;2025 African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards programme honouring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, are now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[68,2605],"class_list":["post-29266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition","tag-competition","tag-student-journalist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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