Report for The World: Host Newsroom Application (2022-2023)

• Type of funding: Core
• Target countries: Worldwide
• Application language: English

Report for the World opens first-ever global call for local newsroom applications. Having successfully launched in Brazil, India and Nigeria, the program will now open its doors to applications from local newsrooms anywhere in the world.

Report for the World is an international journalism program that matches local newsrooms with talented journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe. By creating a more sustainable and impactful media ecosystem, Report for the World informs, engages, and enables communities through public service journalism. Report for the World is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, an award-winning nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to rebuilding journalism from the ground up.

The program — which currently supports 15 local reporters in six newsrooms across Brazil, India, and Nigeria — will, for the first time, welcome applications from prospective host newsrooms in an open call that will expand the program’s support to up to 30 total reporters globally by the end of this year.

Report for the World is an international service program that matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe. The program is an initiative of the award-winning nonprofit, The GroundTruth Project. Newsrooms applying to the program must make a case for what critical issues are going under covered or uncovered in their communities, and also how they will provide support and mentorship to their prospective Report for the World ‘corps member.’

See here to learn more and apply.

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