Each year, the International Center for Journalists honors outstanding colleagues with the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award at our Awards Dinner. We are now seeking nominees whose pioneering coverage or media innovations have made an impact on the lives of people in their countries or regions.
Candidates can be reporters, editors, technologists or citizen journalists from countries where they face major challenges doing their work. Those who meet the award’s criteria may nominate themselves. The deadline is Feb. 8.
Winners will be honored in November at ICFJ’s Awards Dinner 2026 in Washington, D.C.
In 2025, ICFJ Knight International Awardees were Philip Obaji Jr. and César Batiz. Obaji is one of the foremost journalists reporting for international audiences on massacres, torture and resource extraction by Russian paramilitaries in Central and West Africa. Batiz is the co-founder and director of El Pitazo, a pioneering media outlet that has developed innovative ways to reach and involve Venezuelans in a restrictive information environment. Learn more about past awardees here.
The award is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Please help to celebrate the contributions of outstanding journalists by nominating one today. You can find the nomination form here.
For more information about the awards or the awards event, please contact the team at communications@icfj.org.
This was originally Published on ICFJ on 12 January 2026.
