The 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism on Television and Digital Media will honor outstanding journalism that addresses how a free press defends democracy.

​The competition invites entries that investigate threats that democracy now faces and that provide exemplary coverage of efforts to protect the U.S. Constitution, defend the rule of law and hold power accountable.

The biennial Cronkite Awards competition is administered by the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
 
USC Annenberg also partners with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania to present The Brooks Jackson Prize for Fact-Checking. The prize is named for the founding director of FactCheck.org.

(Note: The Cronkite Award shares its entry management platform with the Lear Center's Hollywood, Health & Society, whose name may appear on your browser tab.)