The 2026 Shorenstein Journalism Award is now open for nominations. Read on for guidelines and to submit a nomination entry.
Rules and Procedures for Award Nominations
Thanks for your interest in submitting a nomination entry for the Shorenstein Journalism Award. The Award Selection Committee invites nominations from news editors, publishers, scholars, teachers, journalists, news media outlets, journalism associations, and entities focused on researching and interpreting the Asia-Pacific region. Nominators should have professional knowledge of their nominee’s work. Self-nominations are NOT accepted.
The deadline to enter nominations for the 2026 award is Sunday, February 15, 2026, at 11:59 PM PST.
To nominate a candidate for the award, please review the following guidelines and then fill in and submit the form below:
Both individual journalists and news media outlets are eligible for the award. Teams of journalists are ineligible.
As of the 2026 cycle, the award alternates between journalists whose work has primarily appeared in Western English-speaking news media and those whose work has primarily appeared in Asian news media. News outlets in these categories are also eligible for the award. The 2026 award will honor a recipient from the former category. That is, eligible nominees for the 2026 award are either Western news media outlets or journalists with a substantial body of work published in Western news media.
Nominees must have an outstanding track record of covering the complexities of the Asia-Pacific region.
A nominee’s body of work may cover any Asia-Pacific region. The award defines the Asia-Pacific region as encompassing Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Australasia.
A nominee’s body of work may be in traditional forms of print/ online/ broadcast journalism or in emerging forms of multimedia journalism. The work under consideration must have appeared in English in regularly published newspapers, magazines, wire services, or news sites that adhere to the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
The Award Selection Committee weighs the public impact of and engagement with a nominee’s body of work, among other factors. Nomination entries may include evidence that demonstrates such impact and engagement.
The award is sponsored by Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). The Shorenstein Journalism Award Selection Committee oversees the judging of nominees and is responsible for selecting honorees.
Shorenstein APARC will announce the winner by May 2026.
Questions? Contact us at aparc-communications@stanford.edu.
