Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award 2025 opens
The deadline for entries is 24 March 2024, find out more about the eligibility and judging criteria.
Winners of 2024 NUJ/Orwell Society Young Journalist Awards announced
The entrants, students and young working journalists, wrote a column or review and explained how their writing had been influenced by the 1984 author.
Young Journalists receive NUJ/The Orwell Society awards
The winners and runners-up of The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist’s Award 2023 received their awards at Sutton Courtenay, where George Orwell, journalist, author of books including Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London and famous for his six rules for writing, is buried.
The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist’s Award 2023
Young journalists win prizes for writing a column or review influenced by George Orwell’s work. Gwenno Robinson won the column category.
DM2023: organisation
After more than a century the union voted narrowly to abolish the titles Mother of Chapel and Father of Chapel. Camilla Bracheshi supported a young member's seat on the Equality Council.
The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalist Awards 2023 is open for entries
Entrants are asked to write an arts review or political column and explain how it has been informed by Orwell’s influence.
The Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists' Award 2022 is open
Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career?
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