Pulitzer Center Ocean and Fisheries Reporting Grants

• Eligibility Criteria: All freelance and staff journalists from around the world. The Center particularly welcomes applications from the Global South, and seeks more reporting from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, east and southern Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.
• Type of Funding: Grant
• Region: Global
• Application Language: English

The Pulitzer Center is offering Ocean and Fisheries Reporting Grants to ambitious reporting proposals from freelance and staff journalists fwho wish to report on vital ocean and fisheries issues and are in need of support for their reporting projects.

The new initiative seeks to support enterprising journalists with ambitious reporting projects that will yield high-quality, in-depth journalism that exposes long-running fisheries problems. These projects shall enable key stakeholders and a well-informed public to find solutions that lead to more legal and sustainably caught fish, supply chains free of forced labor, greater food security, and thriving coastal communities. Through its support, the Center intends to develop a global cohort of journalists dedicated to surfacing vital underreported ocean and fisheries stories.

Thematics

The opportunity encourages applications for all formats of reporting on climate impacts, pollution, and biodiversity loss. It would also like to see more applications on lesser reported topics, including:

• Climate change impacts (other than sea-level rise)
• Deep-sea mining
• Marine energy generation
• The blue economy
• Marine genetic resources and the sharing of benefits
• Marine Protected Areas (creation, implementation, and management)
• Species and habitat loss, restoration, and protection
• Ocean science
• Blue carbon and ecosystem valueMarine geoengineering
• Shipping
• Polar issues
• Fishmeal production
• Aquaculture and blue foods

Additionally, transparency and governance is a cross-cutting theme for all of our focus areas.

Requirements

Applicants should provide the following in their applications:

• A description of the proposed project in no more than 250 words.
• A thorough publication plan. Letters of interest or commitment from editors and news outlets should be included.
• A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs. Travel grants cover hard costs associated with the reporting; please do not include stipends for the applicants. Local reporting partner/translator/driver fees are acceptable.
• Three samples of published work, either print or broadcast.
• Three professional references. These can be either contact information or letters of recommendation. The latter is encouraged when letters from interested producers or editors are available.
• A copy of your curriculum vitae.

Applications may also include a more detailed description of project but this will be considered as optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary. Applications must be written in English.

Applicants may apply through this page. They may review the full application guidelines and FAQs here. If they have specific questions about applying, they may contact reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.org.

The Center is accepting applications on a rolling basis.

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