The Hildegard von Bingen Prize for Journalism is an annual journalism award. Since 1995, it is awarded by the Board of Trustees of the Hildegard von Bingen Prize. Former award winners are members of the Board of Trustees. The award was founded in 1995 by the biographer and journalist Helmut Ahrens. A publicist is honored "for an outstanding, professionally and culturally important journalistic individual achievement or a life's work." The prize money is €10,000. The prize is awarded in Mainz. The award is named after the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen. The abbess was convinced that writing and word have their own effect.