African Fact-Checking Awards

• Eligibility criteria:
  – Eligibility criteria depends on categories, please find all criterias below.
• Type of funding: Awards
• Target countries: Africa
• Application language: English, French

Entries for the 2022 awards are now open to journalists, journalism students, and a newly added category of professional fact-checkers – across the continent.

The African Fact-Checking Awards, the longest-running awards program honoring fact-checking journalism by the media in Africa, are in their ninth year.

The fact-check should conclude that a claim about an important topic, originating in or relevant to Africa, is either misleading or wrong.

The awards have three categories, with honors going to a winner and a runner-up. The categories are:

• Fact -Check of the Year by a Working Journalist
• Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker
• Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist

Eligibility Criteria

Fact-Check of the Year by a Working Journalist

• Only journalists who do not work for fact-checking organizations are eligible to enter in this category.
• The entry must have been published or broadcast for the first time by a media- or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
• The work may be published in print or online, broadcast on the radio or television, or published in a blog.

Fact-Check of the Year by a Professional Fact-Checker

• Journalists, fact-checkers or researchers who work for fact-checking organizations or organizations aimed at uncovering dis- or misinformation must enter in this category.
• The entry must have been published or broadcast for the first time by a media- or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
• The work may be published in print or online, broadcast on the radio or television, or published in a blog.

Fact-Check of the Year by a Student Journalist

• To enter the student category, candidates must be from Africa and younger than 35 by 15 July 2022.
  Student candidates must have been enrolled as a student at a university, college or other tertiary institution at some period from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022.
• This category excludes part-time students who are working as professional fact-checkers or journalists. Such candidates must enter one of the other two categories.
• The entry must be an original piece of fact-checking journalism, produced as course work or first published or broadcast on any date from 1 August 2021 to 15 July 2022
• The work may be published in a blog, student publication or by a media- or independent fact-checking organization based in Africa.

See here to learn more and apply.