Supporting Public Interest Journalism in Palestine

• Eligibility Criteria
  – Applicants must be a registered media organisation operating in Palestine;
  – Applicants should demonstrate a strong commitment to producing original content;
  – Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to public interest content but that content may cover a range of public interest issues such as news, current affairs, community issues;
  – Applicants must demonstrate that they respect, at the very least, decent work and standards of employment conditions. Staff should have work contracts and applicants should be able to prove staff are paid above the national minimum wage;
  – Applicants must demonstrate a commitment to media ethics as set out in the IFJ Global Charter of Ethics for Journalists.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Palestine
• Application Language: English

The International Federation of Journalists is offering a number of grants totalling almost 1,000,000 USD to support and enhance public interest media content created by Palestinian media organisations.

Up to 20 individual grants will be awarded to a diverse range of private local and national outlets in Palestine to help pay the salaries of journalists, and sustain and promote the production of public interest reporting.

Funding information

Grants for national media will be in the range of $50,000 to $75,000 and they will be capped at $40,000 for local outlets, to enable the fund to support a broad range of registered media organisations operating in Palestine across all regions, audiences and platforms. Created to sustain and enhance public interest journalism, the mission of the fund is also to protect the future of the media sector as the conflict in the region continues.

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