Entry Opens for Young Journalist of the Year 2024

“This was such a confidence boost and so much motivation to keep pushing forward in my work and public service journalism.”
Yara El Murr from Lebanon recollecting the benefits of becoming the Young Journalist of the Year 2023.

Yara joins a select group of talented young journalists from countries including from India, Taiwan, Sudan, Peru, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Uganda, and Kenya who have won the award.

Entry is now open for the 2024 Young Journalist of the Year.

The award brings international recognition and as Yara discovered opportunities to meet international editors. She has had several articles published by The Guardian after visiting the media group’s London Headquarters when she was in the UK to receive her prize.

To enter, young journalists have to provide a portfolio of work. Yara’s main story featured Hashem Methlej and his attempt to get to Europe for a better life. The boat he was in sank and he is still missing. At the awards ceremony held in London in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen, Yara dedicated her award to him and to the families of the many who have lost loved ones in the Mediterranean sea.

You can read more about Yara and her winning portfolio of work here.

2024 competition – how to enter

Each entrant should submit a portfolio of THREE published or broadcast pieces of work produced in the 12 months preceding (prior to) the award deadline for submissions which is midnight GMT on 9th August 2024. The entries can be in any format: print, audio, video, multimedia, or a combination of all four. 

All entrants should be reporting from their home country as defined by the GNI or, if not in their country of origin, in another country fitting the same criteria. Applicants also need to provide an explanation of any collaboration undertaken with colleagues or external organisations on the stories they submit.  

Journalists who enter for the FPA award will need to submit a written statement of no more than 200 words per story, giving a summary of the content, and any impact it had on public debate in the country of publication or broadcast should also be submitted.

 Full details of the conditions of entry are on the entry form here.

For more details on the competition and to see some of our esteemed alumni from previous years, see our Young Journalist Award competition page.

Closing date: midnight (London time) on 9th August 2024