The International Music Journalism Award (IMJA) celebrates outstanding individual work and first-rate ongoing journalistic engagement that focusses on popular music. Over the last couple of weeks we called for your suggestions and received nominations for over 150 stunning articles, radio shows, podcasts, TV shows and weblinks as well as an awesome list of outstanding journalists from all over the world. Thanks to all of you who contributed! 

Recently our jury sat down to screen the longlist and identify the most award-worthy of the nominations. Expect the announcement of the very first IMJA winners on 4 September and look forward to our related sessions and events at this year’s Reeperbahn Festival Conference. 

In the meantime, why not have a look at the jury’s Shortlist?