Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism 2025

About

The Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism 2025, organized by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, is seeking nominations of exemplary journalistic work that promotes fairness in news coverage, with cash prizes for the winners and a focus on encouraging ethical journalism practices in the United States.

Benefits

• The winner receives $10,000, while second and third place finalists receive $1,000 each.

Eligibility Criteria

• Entries must have been published in a U.S. newspaper or magazine or on the newspaper or magazine’s website during 2024. Web-based news organizations may also submit entries, but no broadcast-only entries are allowed. The principal audience for all entries should be readers rather than listeners or viewers.