The Sigma Awards is a new data journalism award which aims to not just celebrate the best data journalism around the world, but also to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.

It was created by Aron Pilhofer (Temple University) and Reginald Chua (Reuters), with support from Simon Rogers (Google), and Marianne Bouchart (HEI-DA). It is sponsored by the Google News Initiative and hosted by the European Journalism Centre's DataJournalism.com.

The mission of The Sigma Awards is:

To highlight the very best data journalism being done around the world;
To build programs and resources around the awards that enable people in and out of the data journalism community to learn from this work;
To use the awards as a way to unite, galvanize and expand data journalism communities around the world.

Core to this project is The Sigma Awards team’s ambition to bring the data journalists from around the world together to share expertise and ideas, inspire each other, and build a community that endures beyond the awards themselves.

To that end, winners will be brought together at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia on 1-5 April 2020 to celebrate their work but, more importantly, to participate in and lead data journalism panels, discussions and workshops. There they will not only learn from each other, but will be reaching out to the broader community of data journalists and would-be data journalists, building relationships that will help spark better collaborations and work around the world.

You can find all the information about the awards including criteria and categories at The Sigma Awards website.

If you have any questions about the competition, get in touch with competition officer Kuek Ser Kuang Keng at keng@sigmaawards.org or competition manager Marianne Bouchart at marianne@sigmaawards.org.

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