The Sigma Awards

14/03/2024

Who's made it to the top of the competition this year? Come and find out on 22 March for a livestream featuring international data journalism experts from the jury and prize committee. https://www.youtube.com//streams

17/01/2024

To the last minute champions, those who believe a deadline ain't a deadline unless the work is sent 5 seconds to closing time: We see you 👀 and can't wait to discover what great data journalism projects you've done in 2023.
Entries to the Sigma Awards 2024 close at 23:59 ET today. That's 18 Jan at 4:59 GMT, and 18 Jan at 12:59 GMT+8.
More info and motivation to apply 👇🏻

Yep, this is it. You know the saying "you need to be in it, to win it"? Well, we can't make it any clearer than that. So stop thinking about it, it's still time to fill that form, and get the credits you deserve: Apply to the Sigma Awards now�

15/01/2024

Data Journalists! Have you taken the European Journalism Centre's 2023 Data Journalism survey? They want to hear from you!
🇮🇹 Participants can win a trip to Perugia's International Journalism Festival in April 2024!
📰 The survey is for journalists, designers, data scientists and developers, journalism professors and students starting out in the field.
Deadline is tomorrow, Jan 16!
✍ Take the survey here:

The survey is open to anyone who participates in the field of data journalism. Fill it out and win a trip to the International Journalism Festival in…

18/12/2023

It's the start of the week, but almost the end of the year... Time to look back at the outstanding data journalism you've done in 2023 and to send it to the The Sigma Awards. We've made this neat little guide for you with tips and info on the awards. The deadline to apply is 17 January. Best of luck!

Ok, so you'd like to know more about the Sigma Awards and possibly apply. Great idea. You're in the perfect place to learn everything you need to know about this year's awards. What are these awards about? Why are we doing this? Data journalism helps people understand the most intricate

15/12/2023

The Sigma Awards is like a yearly scan of data journalism. We invite data teams, big or small, but also individuals or freelancers, to submit the great data projects they've done in 2023. You send your work, we compile it, review it, and the most outstanding wins. 🥳 Plus, the data is analysed so we learn what trends and evolutions have hit the community this year.
We're data geeks after all 🤖
Send your best projects of 2023 by 17 Jan 👉

The Sigma Awards celebrates the best data journalism from around the world. It’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.

08/12/2023

It's time to look back at the year that has past, and select the top data-driven journalism you've published. Whether you're on your own, in a small newsroom, or part of a bigger team, we want to know what are the best data projects you've worked on this year. The Sigma Awards for data journalism are back, and we can’t wait to see what a great work you’ve done this year.
Deadline: 17 January 2024
More info:

It's the end of the year, and you know what that means. Before you start thinking about Christmas carols, snow trips, and December office dinners, let us share some cheerful news. The Sigma Awards for data journalism are back again. We're delighted to start the hunt for 2023's best data

28/03/2023

The GIJN - Global Investigative Journalism Network has published a great summary of all the 10 winners. We hope the community will find them inspiring.

Winning data journalism entries at this year's Sigma Awards focused on the Ukraine war, air pollution, rising sea levels, and road accidents.

21/03/2023

The list of winners of the is out! Congratulations to the top 10 entries selected by our team of experts. You can read the details of each entry and the prize committee's comments on our website 👉http://sigmaawards.org/projects

Here's the winners list:

Putin's Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes by The Associated Press, FRONTLINE

Culture in the Crosshairs by Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Worlds Apart by NRK

Game of Votes by Cuestión Pública

Always Scared by Streetsblog

La ciudad sumergida (The submerged city) by Amenaza Roboto (www.amenazaroboto.com)

Still Loading by The Markup, The Associated Press

Ghosts of Polluters Past by Grist (main outlet), Voice of OC (publishing partner)

Yao-Hua Law from Macaranga (Portfolio entry)

Joint winners:

Border Outrage: Uncovering the truth about deaths in Melilla by El Pais, Lighthouse Reports, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Enass, The Independent

Frontex Involved in Illegal Pushbacks of Hundreds of Refugees by Lighthouse Reports, Der Spiegel, SRF Rundschau, Republik, Le Monde

16/03/2023

The WINNERS of Sigma Awards 2023 will be announced on 17 March 2023 (Fri) at 3pm GMT on the Sigmas Slack team.
Members of the Jury and Prize Committee will be there to celebrate this year's entries and discuss the way data journalism is evolving. Join our Slack team by filling up this online form:
https://forms.gle/qxdd9duzPwTYme329
You will get an email invitation to join the Sigmas Slack team after you fill up the form.
The announcement will also be livestreamed on our new Youtube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFww2wSFIZFgxemV_00Naag

The Sigma Awards is a competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world.

02/03/2023

The Sigma Awards 2023 Shortlist is out!

60 data journalism entries from 27 countries made it to the next step of the competition.

At the beginning of the year, we received 638 entries from all over the world, representing the work of hundreds of data journalists done throughout the year 2022. Today we are proud to reveal that our Jury of experts has gone through all of the entries and selected the best projects submitted to the competition.

You can see the shortlist on our website: https://sigmaawards.org/projects/

You can also check out previous years' data. That's a total of over 1,500 projects, from 102 countries. Plus, the full data can be downloaded in a readable format on GitHub.
https://github.com/Sigma-Awards

The Sigma Awards Projects Database Welcome to our special place where we list the best of data journalism from around the world. When people apply to the Sigma Awards, they are required to share more than a description of their work. We ask about the technologies used, the impact reached, the challe...

16/12/2022

Hello, Facebook followers of the Sigma Awards! We’re back, and thrilled to announce that the 2023 competition just launched. News teams around the world have until 19 January 2023 to send their best data journalism projects of 2022 via our website. Up for grabs are 5,000 USD and a trip to the International Journalism Festival 2023, in Perugia, Italy.
For more info or to apply, check out our website sigmaawards.org

07/04/2022

📣 The jury made of over 30 international experts has spoken and selected 12 winning entries for the Sigma Awards 2022 competition!

These 12 projects represent the best data journalism worldwide from the past year. They were selected from 603 entries that were published in 2021.

Winners take home a US$500 cash prize and a certificate. Together with the rest of this year's entries, they compile the best data-driven projects of the past year, an invaluable contribution that helps monitor the evolution of the field.

86 organizations, in 28 countries across 6 regions were represented in this year's Sigma Awards Shortlist, which is a great illustration that data journalism is still thriving worldwide despite the challenges, as Simon Rogers, data editor at Google and managing director of the Sigmas puts it:

"I was incredibly impressed by the quality of work we saw this year. To be coming through a pandemic and seeing data journalism around the world play such a powerful global role is really inspiring. The Sigmas continues to be the global award for data journalism."

Here are the best of the best:

Single-project winners:

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed
By The New York Times (USA)
https://sigmaawards.org/what-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-destroyed/

Black Snow: Big Sugar's Burning Problem
By The Palm Beach Post, ProPublica (USA)
https://sigmaawards.org/black-snow-big-sugars-burning-problem/

This is Myanmar's State of Fear
By 101 East, AJLabs, Al Jazeera Media Network (Australia)
https://sigmaawards.org/this-is-myanmars-state-of-fear/

Mururoa Files
By Disclose, Interprt, Princeton (France)
https://sigmaawards.org/mururoa-files/

Use and abuse of emergency contracts during the pandemic
By Civio (Spain)
https://sigmaawards.org/use-and-abuse-of-emergency-contracts-during-the-pandemic/

Lanes of Death in East Cairo
By Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) (Egypt)
https://sigmaawards.org/lanes-of-death-in-east-cairo/

The Digital Army
By Pointer (KRO-NCRV) (Netherlands)
https://sigmaawards.org/the-digital-army/

Rukmini S - Indian excess mortality investigation
By IndiaSpend, The Hindu, Dainik Bhaskar, Scroll.in (India)
https://sigmaawards.org/sigmaawards.org/rukmini-s-indian-excess-mortality-investigation/

Portfolio winners:

ProPublica and Partner Newsrooms (USA)
https://sigmaawards.org/propublica-and-partner-newsrooms/

Important Stories (IStories)/Alesya Marokhovskaya (Russia)
https://sigmaawards.org/important-stories-istories/

LA NACION (Argentina)
https://sigmaawards.org/la-nacion-data/

You can see the full details of the Sigmas 2022 winning entries, as well as the shortlist of the top 100 projects of 2021 via the interactive database on the Sigmas website.
https://sigmaawards.org/projects/

You can check out all 603 entries from this year's competition, as well as previous years' data. That's a total of over 1500 projects, from 102 countries.

You can also download the full data in a machine-readable format on GitHub.
https://github.com/Sigma-Awards

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all participants. We hope to see you again next year!

The Sigma Awards Projects Database Welcome to our special place where we list the best of data journalism from around the world. When people apply to the Sigma Awards, they are required to share more than a description of their work. We ask about the technologies used, the impact reached, the challe...

06/04/2022

📣 Announcement: The winners of the Sigma Awards 2022 for will be revealed tomorrow 7 April @ 2pm CEST.

Join our Sigmas Slack channel to share this moment with our community consists of 350+ people from 80+ countries 👉🏻 https://sigmaawards.org/slack/


Right after the announcement, our co-chair Aron Pilhofer, Gina Chua and executive director Marianne Bouchart will be at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia to talk about lessons from the Sigma Awards tomorrow April 7 @ 5pm CEST.

https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2022/lessons-from-the-sigma-awards-the-best-of-data-journalism-around-the-world

Now in its third year, the Sigma Awards is the largest award celebrating data journalism from around the world. This year, there were more than 600 entries from across the globe. At this panel, we will highlight some of the most creative, most innovative uses of data among this year's awardees. We w...

17/03/2022

The Sigma Awards 2022 Shortlist is out! ✨
1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ entries from 28 countries across 6 regions make it to the next step of the competition 🥳
Check them out + get the data
📊 👉 https://sigmaawards.org/projects/

Data of the shortlist + all other entries are also available on our Github page: https://github.com/Sigma-Awards

The Sigma Awards Projects Database Welcome to our special place where we list the best of data journalism from around the world. When people apply to the Sigma Awards, they are required to share more than a description of their work. We ask about the technologies used, the impact reached, the challe...

17/03/2022

The Sigma Awards pre-jury has gone through all 603 entries to build a shortlist of the best projects of 2021. Want to know if your team’s made it to the top? Join us + members of the international community today (17 Mar 2020 Thursday) at 7am ET at our Slack channel to celebrate the shortlisted projects!
To join our Slack channel: https://sigmaawards.org/slack/

The Sigmas Slack team We've launched The Sigmas Slack team in 2021.

14/01/2022

⏰ You have less than 24 hours to enter the 2022. Even if you didn't win anything, your best projects will be stored in our public database for future reference/research. There's no entry fee. Just spend an hour or so to fill up an online form 👉 sigmaawards.org

12/01/2022

UPDATE: The Sigma Awards 2022 has received 290 projects from 57 countries/areas! What are you waiting for? This is the best opportunity to earn global recognition for your works.
Deadline is only 3 days away 💣 ⏰ 😱
Details: http://sigmaawards.org

Striding into its third year, the Sigma Awards celebrates the best data journalism from around the world. It’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists. The deadline has been pushed a week and data teams around the world now have until January 14th, 2022...