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Sigma Awards

Sigma Awards

An international competition celebrating the best data journalism projects worldwide, spanning portfolio and individual-project categories.

📍 InternationalUnpaid
Who can apply
Open globally to data journalists and newsrooms.
How to prepare
A clean, well-documented data methodology alongside the finished story is what judges evaluate most closely.
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Apply → https://www.sigmaawards.org
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