The award has closed for the 2023 cycle. It will reopen for the 2024 cycle in December 2023.
Rules and Procedures for Award Nominations
Thank you for your interest in submitting a nomination for the Shorenstein Journalism Award. The Award Selection Committee considers nominations submitted by editors, publishers, scholars, teachers, 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.
To nominate a candidate for the award, please review the following guidelines then fill in and submit the form below:
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2023 award is Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 11:59 PM PST.
Nominees must be journalists with an outstanding track record of covering the complexities of the Asia-Pacific region.
The award alternates between recipients whose work has primarily appeared in Asian news media and those whose work has primarily appeared in American news media. The 2023 award will recognize a recipient from the former category.
Both individual journalists and journalism organizations are eligible for the award.
A nominee’s body of work may cover any Asia-Pacific region. For the award, the Asia-Pacific region is defined broadly to include Northeast, Southeast, South, and Central Asia and Australasia.
A nominee’s body of work may be in traditional forms of print or broadcast journalism and/or in new forms of multimedia journalism. The work under consideration must be in English and come from print and/or audiovisual outlets that publish regularly and adhere to the highest journalistic principles.
The 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 Shorenstein Award Selection Committee presides over the judging process that results in award winners, for whose selection the Committee is responsible.
Shorenstein APARC will announce the winner by April 2023 and present the award at a public ceremony at Stanford in the autumn quarter of 2023.
The Shorenstein Journalism Award has closed for the 2023 cycle. It will reopen for the 2024 cycle in December 2023.
Please note that the 2024 award will honor a journalist or a journalism organization whose work has primarily appeared in American news media.
APARC will consider entries in this category only.
