ICIJ Award
The ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting is the only one of its kind created specifically to honor transnational investigative reporting.
The two $10,000 first-place prizes and up to five $1,000 finalist awards recognize, reward, and foster excellence in cross-borders investigative journalism. The Award is held bi-annually. Past ICIJ award winners have reported about abuses faced by immigrants in American workplaces; the involvement of Sweden in the CIA secret renditions program; and allegations of sexual exploitation of Congolese women, girls and boys by United Nations peacekeepers, among other issues of world importance. Brian Ross of ABC News 20/20, Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker, and Steve Bradshaw and Mike Robinson of BBC News Panorama have received the award in recent years.
The competition is open to any professional journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in any medium. The main criterion for eligibility is that the investigation - either a single work or a single-subject series - involves reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance. A five-member jury of international journalists selects the winners.
Two $10,000 first prizes are awarded; one to a U.S.-based reporter or news organization and the other to a non-U.S.-based journalist or news organization.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is the world's foremost network of investigative reporters. It was launched in 1997 as a project of the Center for Public Integrity to extend globally the Center's style of watchdog journalism in the public interest. Almost 100 ICIJ reporters from 48 countries combine talents to provide groundbreaking, in-depth information in a world where borders have become permeable.