Tag: Environmental Journalism and Climate Change

GRANTS FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

Deadline: 22/01/2021
Grant GRID-Arendal is a non-profit environmental communications centre based in Norway and supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, among other donors. GRID-Arendal is offering grants for investigative journalism projects focused on environmental crime in developing countries. Currently, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we seek to support investigative reporting that involves little to no travel.

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THE ENERGY AND RESOURCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCE MEDIA FELLOWSHIP FOR CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING IN THE HIMALAYAN REGION

Deadline: 31/10/2020
Grant The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Earth Journalism Network are providing a six-month media fellowship to digital, print and radio journalists, voice artists, documentary film makers, video bloggers, graphic artists and anyone else who has a demonstrated flair for mass communication. Preference will be given to applicants from the Himalayan region in India, Nepal and Bhutan.

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USAID’S BMAP 3RD MEDIA INNOVATION LAB: REPORTING ETHICALLY DURING A PANDEMIC

Deadline: 09/11/2020
Grant The Media Innovation Lab will gather lead experts in the field and provide different perspectives, teach new skills, and inspire participants to tackle new challenges! On the last day, participants will present their projects to a jury for a chance to receive seed funding of up to $5,000 USD to further develop their prototypes and ideas after the event into full-fledged tools and projects that can be rolled out for use by media across the region.

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THE MCGRAW FELLOWSHIP FOR BUSINESS JOURNALISM

Deadline: 15/01/2021
Grant The McGraw Fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to produce a significant investigative or enterprise story that provides fresh insight into an important business, financial or economic topic. They accept applications for in-depth text, video or audio pieces, and they encourage proposals that take advantage of more than one storytelling form to create a multimedia package.

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EARTH JOURNALISM NETWORK SEEKING REGIONAL RESEARCHER

Deadline: Ongoing
Job Vacancy The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is seeking several regional media researchers to advance our understanding of how media stories lead to positive changes, such as changes in public policy, halting pollution or destructive development projects, or instances of collective action in at least 6 countries, including India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GRANTS FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME IN EAST AFRICA

Deadline: 19 October 2020
Grant Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering journalists from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda reporting grants of up to $2,000 to produce investigative stories that dig deep into the illegal wildlife trade and environmental crime in East Africa and beyond. This opportunity is part of EJN’s East Africa Wildlife Journalism project, which aims to boost coverage of conservation and wildlife issues in the region and is supported by funding from the US Department of the Interior and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SEI ASIA MEDIA GRANTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING

Deadline: 11 October 2020
Grant SEI Asia has announced a Call for Environmental reporting grants for local and regional journalists. SEI Asia will provide six grants to selected local and regional journalists in Asia to showcase impactful stories that highlight critical environmental sustainability issues in the region. Preference is given to early-career, female journalist applicants living in the Mekong Region.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: BIODIVERSITY MEDIA GRANTS 2020

Deadline: 15 October 2020
Grant As a part of Biodiversity Media Initiative project, Earth Journalism Network is pleased to announce a new round of grant opportunities available for journalist networks, media organisations, civil society organisations or academic institutions that are working to improve media coverage of biodiversity and conservation issues in the Global South. The biodiversity crisis is one that impacts all of humanity and does not receive the media coverage that it deserves. Media organizations and reporters have an important part to play in ensuring public awareness of biodiversity and conservation issues, as well as the potential solutions to these problems.

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AMAZON RAINFOREST JOURNALISM FUND

Deadline: Ongoing
Grant The Pulitzer Center is offering grants for journalists based in and reporting for local and regional outlets in the Amazon region on projects related to tropical rainforests. The supported projects will focus on the tropical forests’ role in the overall climate equation and weather patterns globally, regionally and locally, and the consequences for human life and living conditions caused by deforestation; deforestation drivers; and solutions to halt deforestation.

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CONGO BASIN RAINFOREST JOURNALISM FUND

Deadline: Ongoing
Grant The Pulitzer Center is offering grants for journalists based in and reporting for local and regional outlets in the Congo Basin on projects related to tropical rainforests. The supported projects will focus on the tropical forests’ role in the overall climate equation and weather patterns globally, regionally and locally, and the consequences for human life and living conditions caused by deforestation; deforestation drivers; and solutions to halt deforestation.

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SOUTHEAST ASIA RAINFOREST JOURNALISM FUND

Deadline: Ongoing
Grant The Pulitzer Center is offering grants for journalists based in and reporting for local and regional outlets in Southeast Asia on projects related to tropical rainforests. The supported projects will focus on the tropical forests’ role in the overall climate equation and weather patterns globally, regionally and locally, and the consequences for human life and living conditions caused by deforestation; deforestation drivers; and solutions to halt deforestation.

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RAINFOREST JOURNALISM FUND – INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

Deadline: Rolling
Grant The Pulitzer Center is inviting proposals for grants to journalists reporting for wide-reaching major news media outlets on tropical rainforests in any part of the world. The supported projects will focus on the tropical forests’ role in the overall climate equation and weather patterns globally, regionally and locally, and the consequences for human life and living conditions caused by deforestation; deforestation drivers; and solutions to halt deforestation.

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ASIA-PACIFIC MEDIA GRANTS 2021

Deadline: 15 August 2020
Grant The Earth Journalism Network are offering $5,000-15,000 grants as part of the Earth Journalism Network’s Asia-Pacific project, which aims to boost the quantity and quality of environmental and climate coverage in the region and empower at-risk communities by informing them about environmental issues and amplifying their voices in the media.

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ASIA-PACIFIC STORY GRANTS 2020-21

Deadline: 28 August 2020
Grant The Earth Journalism Network are offering approximately 30 grants averaging $1,500 to journalists and media practitioners with experience in investigative reporting and covering environmental issues from South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific.

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CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE REPORTING IN EAST AFRICA GRANT

Deadline: 15 February 2020
Grant Earth Journalism Network is offering grants to 10 journalists in East Africa to report on issues related to wildlife trafficking, conservation, and protection efforts. These story grants will support reporting that explores the consequences of environmental destruction.

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REPORTING ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTION IN THE BAY OF BENGAL

Deadline: 21 February 2020
Grant Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJC) is offering grants to at least 10 journalists based in eastern India and coastal Bangladesh to report on critical issues related to climate change, supporting the production of in-depth stories tied to resilience and climate change adaptation.

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NEWS IMPACT SUMMIT BIRMINGHAM

07 October 2019 – Birmingham, UK
The News Impact Summit will arrive in Birmingham to discuss how technological and journalistic innovation is enabling new forms of reporting on the climate and its impact on our lives. 

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