AGU’s 2024 Journalism Awards nominations are now open

Nominate your own or others' science reporting from 2023 by 27 March

17 January 2024


AGU press contact:
Rebecca Dzombak, [email protected] (UTC-5 hours)


WASHINGTON — AGU is now accepting nominations for its 2024 Journalism Awards, which honor outstanding reporting in the Earth and space sciences published in the previous year (2023). The deadline is 27 March 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

This year, AGU will present two awards; brief descriptions of each award are below, and full descriptions are linked. Submissions for both awards may either be self-nominated or nominated by another individual, and nominees do not need to be AGU members to submit their work. Awardees for each award receive $5,000, a small physical award, recognition in AGU’s Eos, and up to $1,000 in reimbursed costs to attend AGU’s Annual Meeting 2024, held this year in Washington, D.C.

Submissions for all awards can be made through this link. Instructions on navigating the submission process are below. There are no submission or nomination fees.

Nominees must be staff or freelance journalists with the story published in an editorially independent, journalistic outlet; AGU does not currently offer an award for institutional writing or opinion pieces. Stories from Eos are ineligible for AGU awards, as Eos is an AGU publication. Stories and series with multiple authors (shared bylines) are welcome.

Please email the Media Relations team at [email protected] if you have any questions. We look forward to once again honoring the outstanding work produced by the science journalism community!

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Instructions for using the online nomination system

To submit a nomination for yourself or someone else, visit the journalism awards nomination system home page. Before you can submit a nomination, you will need to login to the system by clicking the “Log in here” button on the left-hand side of the screen.

You will then be directed to a login screen. You will need to login to the system using your AGU account. If you do not have an AGU account, you will need to create one by selecting the “Sign me up as a new user” and filling out the required information. (If your organization is not listed or can’t be found, please enter Organization Not Listed in the “Organization Name” field and fill out the “Suggest Your Organization” field with the name of your organization).

After logging in, you will see the home page for the journalism awards. This year, AGU is accepting nominations for the Perlman and Sullivan Awards. To submit a nomination, click on the text “Click here to submit a nomination.”

On the nomination form page, please first select the award for which you are entering a submission (Perlman or Sullivan) using the dropdown “Category” menu. There is no length limit for either award, with the exception of series (limited to 3 related stories).

Fill out the nomination form. You’ll be asked to upload a text-only pdf of the story, including translations or transcriptions as needed. When you have completed the nomination form, you can “Save” the nomination to come back to later, or “Save and Finalize” to submit the nomination.

You can access saved nominations using the “In Progress” tab under “My Nominations” on the left-hand side of the screen. Click “Edit” to edit the nomination or “Remove” to delete the nomination.

You can access submitted nominations under the “Complete” tab under “My Nominations” on the left-hand side of the screen.

To submit an additional nomination, click the “Submit” button on the top navigation bar. A nominee may submit only one entry each for the Perlman and Sullivan Awards in a given year (i.e., one entry for the Perlman and one entry for the Sullivan). If an individual is nominated for multiple stories in one award category, AGU will reach out to the individual and ask which they’d prefer to advance.


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