Last call for 2025 Voyager Media Awards entries

AUCKLAND, Today: Just one week left until entries close for the 2025 Voyager Media Awards! Don’t miss out on the chance to submit your top 2024 work. Mark your calendar: submissions wrap up at 5pm on Friday, 21 February 2025.

Here’s a reminder of some of the key updates for 2025:

• one new award has been introduced: Best Specialist Reporting (All Media) for excellence in specialist or beat reporting that demonstrates sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a specific area, topic, issue or subject that is not already covered in any of our other awards.
• Best Photo-Story has been reintroduced to the Photography category, recognising the skill involved in photojournalism reportage – narrating a visual story in a series of photographs that gives viewers insight into an event or topic.
• a reminder that the Gordon McLauchlan Journalism Award, which recognises excellence in lifestyle journalism – including travel, fashion, fitness, wellbeing, food, leisure, the arts and entertainment, is open to work (including that of video journalists and photo-journalists/photographers) published in New Zealand-based newspapers, magazines and/or websites/apps, or broadcast on radio or television during 2024

Entry and judging criteria for all awards can be found at npa.co.nz/voyager-media-awards/2025-awards-criteria.

The list of finalists will be released in mid-April. The 2025 Voyager Media Awards will culminate with a celebration of winners at Grand Millennium in Auckland on Friday 16 May.

Key dates:
Fri 17 Jan 2025 – Entries open (10am)
Fri 21 Feb 2025 – Entries close (5pm)
March 2025 – Judging
Fri 11 Apr 2025 – Finalists announced and tickets on sale
Fri 16 May 2025 – Winners announced at a celebration at the Grand Millennium, Auckland

• Visit Voyager Media Awards website (npa.co.nz/voyager-media-awards) to enter