The Jury and Prize Committee of the Sigma Awards 2023
Together, they represent the best minds in the data journalism industry.
The Prize Committee (formerly called Jury) will be led by Gina Chua (Semafor) and Aron Pilhofer (Temple University), co-chairs of The Sigma Awards.
We’ve also gathered an incredible Jury of 20 international experts to go through all the entries this year.
The Prize Committee
Here are the people who will review the shortlist and decide who should win this year’s competition:
- Alberto Cairo, University of Miami (USA)
- Sarah Cohen, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (USA)
- Cheryl Phillips, Stanford (USA)
- Paul Radu, OCCRP (Romania)
- Momi Peralta Ramos, La Nacion (Argentina)
- Yue Qiu, Bloomberg (USA/China)
- Joshua Olufemi, Dataphye (Nigeria)
- Soph Warnes, Wall Street Journal (USA)
- Katia Brembatti, Abraji’s president (Brazil)
- Eoghan Macguire, editor at Bellingcat (Netherlands)
- Roman Kulchynskyi from Texty (Ukraine)
- Joshua Olufemi, Dataphyte (Nigeria)
- Mohammed Al Komani, ARIJ (Jordan)
- Silva Shih, CommonWealth Magazine (Taiwan)
- Sisi Wei, The Markup (USA)
The Jury
We’ve gathered a group of 20 international experts in data journalism to help us review all the entries submitted this year.
The jury will be led by Simon Rogers (Google), also managing director of the competition and Kuek Ser Kuang Keng (HEI-DA), competition officer.
- Eva Constantaras, Internews, Lighthouse Reports (Greece)
- Pinar Dag, Dağ Medya, Data Journalism Platform Turkey (Turkey)
- Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera (Qatar)
- Marco Hernandez, New York Times (United States)
- Marco Túlio Pires, Google (Brazil)
- Roberto Rocha, CBC (Canada)
- Hyejin Kwon, Korea Data Journalism (South Korea)
- Monia Ben Hamadi, media consultant and researcher (Tunisia)
- Adriano Belisario, data-driven investigations and OSINT expert (Brazil)
- Karen Bastien, Wedodata (France)
- E’thar AlAzem, ARIJ (Jordan)
- Sam Joiner, The Financial Times (UK)
- Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (UK)
- Dada Lyndell, The Insider (Russia)
- Yan Naung Oak, Thibi (Myanmar/Singapore)
- Agustin Armendariz, ICIJ (USA)
- Jennifer LaFleur, CPI (USA)
- Ali Srour, Social Lab (Estonia)
- Evgenia Drozdova, Texty (Ukraine)