Asia Society seeks applications for 2025 Osborn Elliott Journalism Prize
New York, NY; February 3, 2025 — Asia Society is currently seeking applications for the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a reporter or team of reporters who has produced the best example of journalism about Asia, specifically during the 2024 calendar year. Evaluation criteria include impact of the work, its originality, creativity, depth of research and educational value in informing the public about Asia. Submission criteria is detailed below.
Applications must be received by Monday, March 17, 2025.
Eligibility:
- A submission may consist of a single written story, or a series of stories around a specific theme.
- For the purposes of the award, “Asia” is defined as the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. It does not include the Arab Middle East.
- All nominations or direct applications are limited to one per writer or team. Additional weight is given to submissions by a single reporter.
- Submissions from outlets in Asia are encouraged.
- Journalistic work must have been published in English, during the 2024 calendar year.
- Submissions are only accepted electronically, via the submit button below, which includes access to application requirements and instructions.
About the Prize
The Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, also referred to as the “Oz Prize,” honors the late Osborn Elliott, a legendary journalist and former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. Elliott set new standards for reporting and editing, and became one of the earliest practitioners of “civic journalism,” the deliberate focusing of the journalistic enterprise on urgent issues of public policy.
An independent jury of distinguished writers, award-winning journalists, and Asia-hands, chaired by Marcus Brauchli, managing partner of North Base Media and former editor of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, will review nominations and select the winner.
Last year’s prize was awarded to the Outlaw Ocean Project for "China: The Superpower of Seafood,” their reporting in multiple formats published in media around the world telling a complex story of China's domination of the global seafood industry. Other recent winners include Sue-Lin Wong and David Rennie of The Economist for their China coverage (2023), and Matthieu Aikins and Jim Huylebroek for “Inside the Fall of Kabul,” an account published by the New York Times Magazine of the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban (2022).
The winner of the Oz Prize will be announced in the spring and honored at a special program at Asia Society, New York.
Please email [email protected] with any questions. Find out more about the Oz Prize at AsiaSociety.org/OzPrize.