Investigative Story Grants for Indigenous and Tribal Journalists

• Eligibility Criteria
  For these Investigative story grants:
  – Applicants must self-identify as Indigenous or belonging to a tribe and will be asked to provide details on their Indigenous or tribal affiliations in the application. EJN is utilizing the ILO Convention No. 169 as a baseline for eligibility and will seek to establish a diverse cohort from a wide range of Indigenous and tribal communities and nations;
  – Applicants can be from anywhere in the world;
  – Journalists who have previously received Indigenous Story Grants from EJN in 2021 and 2022 are eligible for this opportunity, but preference will be given to those who have not yet received support;
  – Journalists who are not Indigenous are not eligible for this opportunity; however, they will accept applications from pairings or teams of Indigenous and non-Indigenous journalists;
  – For the purposes of this grant opportunity, they will only be accepting applications in English. Unfortunately, they do not have the capacity to consider applications in other languages at this time;
  – Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (online, print, television, radio) and other expert media practitioners with investigative reporting experience and a history of covering environmental issues;
  – Applicants are required to be transparent about the use of generative AI tools, if any, to revise their proposals.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Global
• Application Language: English

EJN is offering reporting grants to Indigenous and tribal journalists globally to support the production of investigative, innovative and/or enterprise reporting on environmental and climate issues.

Story Themes

They are particularly interested in stories that:

• Expose governments, corporations and other powerful actors who fail to meet commitments to include Indigenous Peoples or intentionally sideline them as leaders in decision-making around climate and environmental issues.
• Investigate land rights and environmental sovereignty, including historical precedent, legal frameworks and data sovereignty.
• Explore solutions proposed or implemented to curb climate or environmental challenges that may not be serving vulnerable communities or were conducted without their consent.
• Utilise Freedom of Information requests or public data to investigate little-known or covered-up climate and environmental justice issues.
• Develop land or environmental mapping projects or data sets that culminate in an investigative piece.

Funding Information

They expect to award up to 5-6 investigative story grants with budgets between $2,500-$3,000 each.

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