Knight Foundation supports the Global Editors Network to demonstrate the value of data journalism. Below, Laure Nouraout, communications and social media manager for Global Editors Network, writes about the 2014 Data Journalism Awards, which opened Monday. Above: Ricardo Brom accepts an award for La Nacion’s reporting on Argentina’s Senate expenses at the 2013 Digital Journalism Awards at Hotel de Ville in Paris in June. 

This week, the Global Editors Network is launching the third edition of the Data Journalism Awards, an international contest that recognizes outstanding projects in the field, supported by Knight Foundation and Google.

Work may be submitted for any media platform but must be published or broadcast between April 10, 2013 and April 4, 2014. Applications may be submitted through April 4.

“The use of data, digital reporting and display skills are the cutting edge of journalism around the world today,” said Paul Steiger, the president of the jury and a Knight Foundation trustee. “The [Data Journalism Awards] highlight the best of that work and are a great tool for propagating these skills, to the benefit of publics everywhere.”

Eight prizes for a total of €16,000 (about $21,500) will be distributed in eight categories:

• Best story or group of stories on a single topic
• Best data-driven investigation
• Best journalistic data visualization
• Best data journalism application or website
• Best data journalism portfolio by an individual
• Best data journalism portfolio by a team or newsroom
• Best entry from a small newsroom (less than 25 journalists)
• Jurors’ choice

The jury comprises leading contributors in the field, such as Wolfgang Blau of The Guardian, Simon Rogers of Twitter, Giannina Segnini from La Nación and Michael Maness, vice president for media and journalism at Knight Foundation (see the list here).

The winning teams will be invited to present their work at the Global Editors Network Summit in Barcelona on June 12, 2014. Steiger and Jaume Giro of la Caixa will preside at the ceremony, which will be held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

“I’m expecting this year’s [Data Journalism Awards] not only to reward great work that I already know about, but also to uncover brilliant talent and accomplishment that currently lies hidden from much of the world,” Steiger said. “I’m also hoping that modest changes in the rules and categories this year will encourage even more entrants to submit their best work.”

For the past two years, the Data Journalism Awards highlighted the emerging community of data journalists from all over the world, encouraging them to share experiences and good practices. Last year, the awards, chosen from 350 applications, recognized seven projects on various topics, such as the expenses of the Argentine Senate, differences in salaries between men and women and gay rights by state in the United States.

If you have demonstrated innovative ways to manage data, get your voice heard on the most prestigious global data journalism platform. Simply and quickly upload your project here and you may be one of the deserving finalists invited to the GEN Summit in Barcelona next June!

To apply for the 2014 Data Journalism Awards and to learn more about the rules, visit the Global Editors Network website