Together, they represent the best minds in the data journalism industry. We do our best to gather a representative group of people who can help us grasp how the world of data journalism is doing, and assess fairly who's been outstanding, by understanding the context in each region of the world.
The Jury is responsible for going through all the entries, assessing them and at the end release a shortlist. The Prize Committee then takes over, looks at all the shortlisted entries and decides who should win this year.
The Sigmas 2025 Jury
It will be led by Simon Rogers (Google), also managing director of the competition and Kuek Ser Kuang Keng (Pulitzer Center), competition officer.
We’ve gathered a group of international experts in data journalism to help us review all the entries submitted this year:
- Eva Constantaras, Lighthouse Reports (Thailand)
- Pinar Dag, Data Journalism Turkey / GIJN (Türkiye)
- Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera (Qatar)
- Roberto Rocha (Canada)
- Monia Ben Hamadi, journalist and trainer (Tunisia)
- Adriano Belisario, Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (Brazil)
- E'thar AlAzem, ARIJ (Jordan)
- Sam Joiner, The Financial Times (UK)
- Dada Lyndell, The Insider
- Yan Naung Oak, Thibi (Myanmar)
- Agustin Armendariz, ICIJ (USA)
- Jennifer LaFleur, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (USA)
- Yevheniia Drozdova, Texty.org.ua (Ukraine)
- Weiyi Cai, New York Times (South Korea)
- David Frenkel, Mediazona (Czech Republic)
- Jamile Santana, School of Data (Brazil)
- Jacopo Ottaviani, Code for Africa
- Florencia Coelho, La Nacion (Argentina)
The Prize Committee
The Prize Committee will be led by Gina Chua (Semafor) and Aron Pilhofer (Star Tribune), co-chairs of The Sigma Awards.
The Prize Committee this year that will review the shortlist and decide who should win this year's competition includes:
- Alberto Cairo, University of Miami (USA)
- Sarah Cohen, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (USA)
- Cheryl Phillips, Stanford University (USA)
- Paul Radu, OCCRP (Romania)
- Yue Qiu, Bloomberg (USA/China)
- Katia Brembatti, Abraji (Brazil)
- Roman Kulchynskyi, Texty (Ukraine)
- Joshua Olufemi, Dataphyte (Nigeria)
- Mohammed Al Komani, ARIJ (Jordan)
- Silva Shih, CommonWealth Magazine (Taiwan)
- Alexsai Srourali, Social Lab (Estonia)
- Minami Funakoshi, Reuters (USA)
- Brant Houston, University of Illinois (USA)
