SEJ AWARDS CELEBRATION RETURNS TO SEJ2026
The SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment honor the most compelling, rigorous and courageous environmental journalism across all media formats. Over more than two decades, SEJ Awards have honored reporting from newsrooms, ranging from local and regional outlets and public media stations to digital-first investigative teams and some of the world’s biggest national and international publications.
Each year, the SEJ Awards also recognizes the work of early-career journalists, students, and reporters from local and community outlets. Their work often reaches audiences that might otherwise go unheard, and many of these stories would not exist without the professional community, story grants, training and peer support that SEJ provides.
At our 35th anniversary conference in Chicago, we’re bringing back the in-person celebration of this work and the journalists behind it — reporters, editors, data journalists and broadcasters whose stories inform the public, hold institutions accountable and illuminate the systems shaping our planet and communities.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award
One first-place winner will be selected to receive the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. The winner of this “best of the best” award will receive a $10,000 monetary prize, a commemorative trophy and up to $2,500 toward travel, lodging and registration support to attend the conference.
We’ll also recognize the volunteer screeners and judges whose expertise, care and time form the backbone of the awards process and help uphold the highest standards of environmental journalism.
Support the best of environmental journalism!
Support and celebrate the best environmental journalism of the year at the SEJ Awards Luncheon, as we return our annual celebration to our conference in Chicago. Partners may sponsor an awards table or underwrite an individual awards category, aligning your organization with excellence and impact in environmental reporting. Sponsorships provide meaningful recognition while honoring the journalists whose work increases the public’s understanding of the most urgent environmental issues of our time.