Karen Burke is director of communications at the Global Editors Network, which Knight Foundation supports to promote innovation and excellence in journalism.

Journalists from all over the world have less than two weeks to submit their work to the Data Journalism Awards, an international competition organized by the Global Editors Network. Submissions close at 11:59 (GMT) on April 10, and, this year, we hope to surpass the 520 entries we received last year. Make sure you don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to showcase your work.

If you haven’t heard of us, the Global Editors Network is a cross-platform community of editors-in-chief and media innovators committed to high-quality journalism. Our aim is to empower newsrooms through digital programs designed to inspire, connect and share. We’ll present the Data Journalism Awards on June 18 during our Global Summit in Barcelona. The summit, June 17-19, provides practical solutions for immediate implementation in newsrooms.

The Data Journalism Awards are the only global prizes that recognize excellence in the field. Supported by Google and Knight Foundation, this is the fourth round of the competition. Previous winners have included The New York Times, La Nacion, Kiln and Detective.io, as well as individuals such as Chad Skelton.

We will recognize the best work in 10 categories: data visualization of the year, investigation of the year, news data app of the year, data journalism website of the year, best individual portfolio, best use of data in a breaking news story, open data award, best entry from a small newsroom, and general excellence (jurors’ choice and public choice). The prizes are worth €1,500 each.

The director of this year’s Data Journalism Awards is Simon Rogers, founder of the Guardian Data Blog, former data editor at Twitter and now data editor at Google News Lab. In an interview with Global Editors Network, Roger said, “I am really hoping to see some great storytelling this year — people who are brilliant at taking the key data and breaking amazing stories or just at explaining it for a general audience.” (You can read the full interview here.)

After the deadline for entries (April 10), reviewers will short-list around 80 submissions. We’ll announce those results on May 7. After that, our international jury will choose the winners. The president of the jury is Paul Steiger, executive chairman of ProPublica and a member of the board of trustees at Knight Foundation. You can read the bios of the other jury members on our website here.

We’ll announce the winners during a special gala dinner at the Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona on June 18. All registered participants will be invited to the ceremony.

If you want to submit a project, please register on the Global Editors Network Community website. You can explore last year’s winners and short-listed projects, as well as this year’s projects, on the community’s project Web pages. We have also introduced a monthly Data Journalism Awards newsletter, which Simon Rogers curates; you can view it here. We’ll post the Data Journalism Awards short list in the newsletter and on our website on May 7. Good luck.