2024 Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC) is calling on journalists and visual storytellers to apply for the second year of the Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship. This year’s run of the Fellowship is open to all professional journalists across the Philippines.

The Jaime Espina Klima Correspondents Fellowship aims to provide space for climate and energy stories in Philippine communities by training provincial journalists and media practitioners.

About the fellowship

The Fellowship will select 10 teams of Fellows while striving to maintain balanced representation across the different regions and island groups in the Philippines. Each team will receive a grant of up to P100,000, based on the budget proposal they will submit as part of their application.

Fellows will be selected by an esteemed panel composed of veteran journalists and editors, as well as communications, climate, and energy experts. Upon selection, Fellows must attend a three-day in-person session in Metro Manila from December 10-12, 2024. The learning sessions will tackle the country’s energy situation, renewable energy and its importance, and community-driven renewable energy applications. It will also cover topics such as journalism ethics focused on community engagement and libel check. Fellows will also be offered workshops on photography and visual journalism, energy reporting, and data journalism, among others.

Fellows are expected to begin story production in December. All outputs must be published by March 2025, at the latest. Fellows will have an opportunity to consult with media experts and ICSC representatives to refine the story project.

Stories can be published in any language. However, English translation is required for those publishing in their local languages. ICSC will also seek the Fellows’ consent for rights to publish and distribute their stories on select social media sites and with our national and international partners.

How to apply

The application deadline for this fellowship is November 1, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.