The four award categories aim to showcase the power of journalism to drive awareness, inspire action, and spark positive change for children everywhere.
LONDON/GENEVA 13 October – Save the Children International is proud to announce the finalists for its Global Media Awards 2025, a prestigious set of awards that celebrate excellence in journalism focused on child rights.
The finalists represent news outlets from around the world whose impactful storytelling has played a pivotal role in uncovering, highlighting, and addressing critical child rights issues. The four award categories aim to showcase the power of journalism to drive awareness, inspire action, and spark positive change for children everywhere.
An independent judging panel of well-respected journalists is now evaluating the finalists and will select the winners, which will be announced during a virtual ceremony on World Children’s Day, 20 November 2025.
"The vital work of these journalists around the world reporting on child rights issues holds perpetrators accountable, and makes a profound impact for the children featured in their reporting. As we celebrate our second annual Global Media Awards, we are once again inspired by the incredible submissions," said Jen Corlew, Director of Global Communications at Save the Children. “By honouring these exceptional journalists, we aim to highlight the power journalism can have in driving positive change for children everywhere."
Save the Children first launched the awards in 2024 in honour of the centennial year since the first Declaration of the Rights of the Child–drafted by Save the Children’s founder, Eglantyne Jebb—was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924.
FINALISTS:
Written News
• 7IBER Magazine: “Child Agricultural Laborers: A Stolen Childhood Under the Sun”
• BBC News Mundo: “‘No matter what age you are, you need a family’: People who decide to adopt older children that other parents do not want”
• Daraj Media: “Gaza’s Miscarriages: Generations Are Killed in Mothers’ Wombs”
• El Observador: “Living on High Alert: When Children Become “Guarantees” in Drug Houses, Mules on Their Way to School, and Survivors Amid Gunfire”
• Republik: “Camps on Samos: Detention for children, paid for by Switzerland”
BROADCAST:
• Africa Uncensored: “The Vanishing Kids of Mukuru”
• MBC: “Zero Period Climate Crisis”
• News Central TV: “Education Struggles in Makoko”
• The Guardian: “The Gaza Girl whose Face was ‘Ripped Off’ by an Israeli Missile Strike”
• TRT World: “Bangladesh Turns Tide on Climate Change with Floating Schools”
RADIO / PODCAST
• BBC Radio 4: “County Lines”
• BBC Radio 4: “Missing Pieces: The Lesbian Mothers Scandal”
• Rádio Novelo: “Listen to the Children”
• SKY FM: “False Start: After the Fire: Learning Under Trees in Dormaa Akwamu”
• Splash 105.5FM: “Period Poverty, Silence, and School Bells: The Hidden Struggle of Oyo’s Girls”
PHOTOGRAPHY:
• Agence France-Presse /AFP: “Colombia’s Desert North Feels the Pain of Trump’s Cuts”
• Armeninan Weekly: “Childhood Under the Fire”
• European Pressphoto Agency / EPA: “A Doll in Her Arms, a War on Her Childhood”
ENDS
For more information on the awards, please visit the Save the Children Global Media Awards website: www.savemediaawards.com
