Save the Children's Global Media Awards 2025

📝 About Save the Children's Global Media Awards

In tribute to the legacy of Eglantyne Jebb and to mark the 100th anniversary of the League of Nations' adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of a Child, Save the Children proudly launched its Global Media Awards in 2024. These awards celebrate excellence in journalism that champions child rights.

Now in its second year, the Global Media Awards 2025 continue to honor professional journalists worldwide whose storytelling has played a pivotal role in uncovering, highlighting, and addressing critical child rights issues. The awards aim to showcase the power of media to drive awareness, inspire action, and spark positive change for children everywhere.

Award Categories

The awards will recognize outstanding work across multiple categories, including:

• Print (online and print)
• Broadcast
• Radio / Podcast
• Photography

📅 Opportunity Details

• Date Published: May 30, 2025
• Application Deadline: July 20, 2025
• Category: Contest
• Sponsor Organisation: Save the Children Fund

🎁 Benefits of Save the Children's Global Media Awards

• Winners will receive a personalized certificate and be invited to attend a Save the Children international press trip or program visit.
• Shortlist finalists will receive a personalized certificate.

✅ Eligibility Criteria

• Open to all professional journalists aged 18 and over, except:
  • Individuals (and their partners and family) involved in the judging of the competition.
  • Employees of any Save the Children office or Trustees of Save the Children.
• Entries must:
  • Be original and published/broadcast in a national, regional, or international media outlet between August 31, 2024, and July 1, 2025.
  • Clearly identify the author and the media outlet they represent.
  • Be submitted in English or accompanied by an English translation.
  • Include a letter from the media outlet certifying the publication date and outlet.
  • Adhere to journalistic ethics, respect the dignity of children, and avoid putting children at risk.
  • For photographs, entries must result from a photographic process using a camera.
• Entrants may participate in one or both categories but will only be awarded in one category.
• Previous winners of Save the Children Global Media Awards are not eligible to win again.

🏆 Selection Criteria

1. Relevance

• Compelling Storytelling: Expose a child rights issue or highlight children taking action for positive change through compelling storytelling.
• Fresh Perspective: Introduce a child rights issue to the audience in a fresh and innovative way.
• Engaging and Appropriate: Be engaging and suitable for the intended audience.

2. Children's Voices and Safeguarding

• Inclusion of Child Voices: Include case studies, first-hand accounts, or testimonials from children (or their parents/guardians) to amplify their voices.
• Adherence to Child Safeguarding: Comply with child safeguarding standards and ethical reporting practices, ensuring the dignity and privacy of children are respected.
• Balanced and Fair: Demonstrate impartial and unbiased reporting on child rights issues.

3. Impact and Innovation

• Further Media Coverage: Demonstrate if the piece resulted in additional media coverage on child rights.
• Demonstrable Impact: Provide evidence of positive change for children, such as policy changes or improvements in the lives of those featured in the stories.
• Recognition of Creativity: Showcase innovative and creative approaches to storytelling, capturing audience attention and raising awareness of critical child rights topics.

📤 Application Process

You will be asked to submit your entries in one of the following ways:

• Upload files (ideally as PDF, JPG, MP3, or MP4) to the viewing platform.
• For video, submit a link to your own viewing platform (e.g., Vimeo or YouTube).

Required Submission Materials

Each entry should include:

• A synopsis and impact statement.
• Credits for up to three (3) people connected with the entry.
• A letter from the media outlet certifying the publication date and outlet.

📅 Application Deadline

July 20, 2025

🌐 Application Portal

• View details of Save the Children's Global Media Awards.
• Apply for Save the Children's Global Media Awards.

This is your chance to showcase your impactful journalism and contribute to the global movement for child rights. Don't miss out!

• Winners will receive a personalised certificate and be invited to attend a Save the Children international press trip or programme visit.
• All shortlist finalists will receive a personalised certificate.