[2] The CIVIS Media Prize is organised by the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD), represented by WDR, together with the Freudenberg Foundation.
The WDR mediagroup, the German Producers Alliance - Film & Television, VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the Open Society Foundations and the Deutsche Postcode Lotterie are cooperation partners.
The chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CIVIS Media Foundation is the director general of Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Tom Buhrow.
The members of the Board of Trustees, through their activities in civil society, aim to promote the foundation's objectives in the public sphere.
The prize honours journalistic internet content dealing with issues of integration and cultural diversity and presented in a web-friendly graphic and multimedia format.