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2025 ACRS Road Safety Reporting Award
The ACRS Road Safety Reporting Award honours outstanding journalism globally that uses an evidence-based, systems-thinking approach to highlight and reduce road trauma. Open to various media formats and nomination types, the award celebrates impactful reporting that informs the public, engages stakeholders, and advocates for safer roads. This year (2025) is the first year the ACRS will launch the Road Safety Reporting Award.
We welcome nominations from ACRS members or self-nominations (from content creators/journalists/reporters).
Submissions can include road safety stories or reports that showcase evidence-based, systems-oriented, and impactful journalism in the field of road safety.
Key Nomination Information:
Self-Nominations: Journalists, reporters, content creators, or teams may nominate their own work.
Member Nominations: ACRS members are encouraged to nominate outstanding work they believe deserves recognition.
Nominees will need to complete the relevant submission form, providing a link to or copy of a media piece published between 1 May 2024 to 30 April 2025, including detailed information about their story, such as the topic, publication platform, evidence-based approach, stakeholder engagement, and public impact. They should also submit supporting materials like research references.
Entries for this award close 5:00pm (AEST) Friday 20 June 2025
Award Criteria
- For the 2025 award, submissions must have been published or aired between 1 May 2024 and 30 April 2025.
- Nominations can be made by content-creators (journalists, reporters) as self-nominations of work they have delivered, OR by ACRS members/non-content creators who wish to highlight outstanding road safety reporting they believe deserves recognition.
Content-creators/Self-nominators
- Provide details of the road safety story, including media platform, publication & organisation details.
- Demonstrate the use of reliable data, research, and references to support the story, and perspectives from road safety experts or organisations.
- Demonstrate reach, engagement or influence of story.
- Explain how the story supports efforts to address or reduce road trauma, or drive policy or behavioural change.
- Acknowledge reporting challenges and how these were addressed.
ACRS Member nominators/non-content creators
- Provide details of the road safety story, including media platform, publication & organisation details.
- Demonstrate what evidence-based research or data was used to support the story.
- Provide details of input from road safety experts, affected communities, or policymakers.
- Demonstrate how the reporting included consultation and balanced perspectives.
- Demonstrate how the story contributed to raising public awareness or understanding of a road safety issue .
Procedure for Nomination
Nominations to be made through the ACRS Road Safety Reporting Award online form.
General Information
If you have any questions regarding this award, please contact the Australasian College of Road Safety by email: admin@acrs.org.au.
