Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant

• Eligibility Criteria: All staff and freelance journalists are eligible to apply.
• Type of Funding: Grant
• Region: Amazon, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia
• Application Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and bahasa Indonesia.

The Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Reporting Grant provides short-term, project-based funding support to journalists who want to report on tropical rainforests. The Center invites ambitious reporting proposals looking into critical issues including illegal deforestation, Indigenous rights, the extraction industry, biodiversity, and more.

Thematics

Applicants may explore the following topic ideas:

• Large-scale agro-industry
• Indigenous rights and policies
• Cross-border timber and wildlife trade and supply chain
• Forest and biodiversity health
• Chemical pollution
• Forest fires
• Palm oil production and regulation
• Green energy
• Artisanal mining and agriculture
• Carbon storage and market schemes

Eligibility

• Grants are open to all journalists: writers, photographers, radio producers, and filmmakers; staff journalists as well as freelancers.
• The Center supports veteran reporters who have been widely published, but also back younger applicants who are looking for help to jumpstart their careers.
• A diversity of voices— gender, ethnicities, backgrounds and nationalities—is important.

How to apply 

Applicants must apply using this apply using this application form. The opportunity is now open and there is no specific deadline. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis. Applicants will need the following while applying:

• A description of the proposed project in no more than 250 words;
• A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs;
• A compelling distribution plan

Please review the grant application guidelines and apply. If you have specific questions about applying please contact reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.org.

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