Once again the juries for the International Music Journalism Award have met and read, listened and watched their way through roughly 200 German, English and French submissions. Today we present you the shortlists for the categories The Year's Best Work of Music Journalism (text, audio, multimedia & new perspective: under 30) and The Best Music Journalist of the Year 2019.

So here is our big request and sincere recommendation: look and click through the shortlists and discover the crème de la crème of music journalism produced over the last twelve months.

We will be presenting the International Music Journalism Award on Friday, 20 September, at Reeperbahn Festival.

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