Qarib Journalism Awards 2025

The Qarib Journalism Awards 2025 aim to recognize, support, and amplify impactful journalism and storytelling from Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon. 15 award winners will be honored at a ceremony in Amman at the end of June 2026

The region continues to face overlapping crises, including conflict, political instability, socio-economic pressure, climate change, environmental degradation, corruption, and weak governance structures. These challenges deeply affect everyday life, particularly for women, youth, people of diverse gender identities, and marginalized communities. Qarib invites journalists, storytellers, and content creators working on these issues to submit their work.

Categories 

• Best climate and environment reporting: Awarded for outstanding coverage of climate change and environmental challenges, highlighting community-led responses, sustainable initiatives, and local resilience.
• Best women’s rights and gender-sensitive reporting: Awarded for digital stories centering women’s perspectives, rights, and lived experiences.
• Best reporting on socio-economic issues and local governance: Awarded for reporting that examines local governance, economic inequality, and socio-economic challenges.
• Best coverage of youth concerns by youth (18-30 years old): Awarded for storytelling that highlights youth perspectives, concerns and initiatives in particularly digital formats.
• Best investigative reporting on corruption affecting marginalized communities: Awarded for investigative journalism that exposes corruption, abuse of power, or lack of accountability.

Eligibility 

• Practicing individual freelance journalists, storytellers, and content creators, teams of journalists, staff journalists from media outlets in Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon are eligible to apply.
• They should be working according to journalistic standards enshrined in the Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists of the International Federation of Journalists.
• Qarib welcomes all journalistic formats, i.e. videos, print and online articles, radio reports and podcasts, TV and multimedia reports, columns, features, investigative reports, and photo stories.
• Works published between 01 January 2025 and 01 March 2026 are eligible of submission.

How to apply

• To apply, fill in the application template at the end of this page.
• Applicants must translate written content into English.
• Addtionally, English summaries should be provided for the audio content and video content must have English subtitles.
• Applicants will receive an automatic response that confirm that your application has been received.
• The last date to make submissions is 01 March 2026 at 8:00 PM Amman time.
• Applicants can address questions to the following email: info@qaribmedia.com

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