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JOURNALISMFUND.EU LOCAL (PILOT)

Anne Marie Hammer
Posted on 17 September 202021 September 2020
CategoriesEurope, Funding Opportunities, Grants, Grants, OPPORTUNITIES

Deadline: 12 October 2020
Grant Journalismfund.eu aims at addressing the shortage of local independent journalism by awarding grants to local investigative journalistic projects in Belgium and the Netherlands and by stimulating the cross-border collaboration. In this way, cities in Belgium and the Netherlands could mutually strengthen each other (e.g. by forming each other’s benchmark) and as such increase the impact of the supported publications.

TICKETS ON SALE: NEWS XCHANGE CONFERENCE 2018

14-15 November – Edinburgh, UK
Tickets are now available for the annual two-day News XChange conference, which focuses on the key ideas, opportunities and challenges with in today’s international media industry. News XChange draws 600+ reporters, bloggers and start-up entrepreneurs from all around the world to share, discuss ideas and learn from one another.

FESTIVAL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ DE PERIODISMO 2018

03 Oct – 05 Oct, 2018, Medellin, Colombia

The three-day program will cover topics such as literature, music, film and politics, in free-entry events such as meetings at universities, documentary screenings and photographic exhibitions.

CALL FOR PAPERS: REPORTING GLOBAL WHILE BEING LOCAL

Deadline: 21 September
A special issue of Journalism Studies titled “Reporting Global while being Local: Local sources of news for distant audiences” has launched a call for papers.

PROPUBLICA TO EXPAND LOCAL REPORTING NETWORK

Deadline 14 September 2018
ProPublica is expanding its Local Reporting Network, focusing on accountability journalism on state politics. ProPublica will pay the salary, and an allowance for benefits, for reporters at seven partner news organisations who will spend one year tackling an investigative project in their states.

A CALL FOR PHILANTHROPY IN LOCAL NEWS JOURNALISM

In a new report, “The Case for Philanthropic Support for Local Journalism in a Time of Market Upheaval”, Tony Proscio, of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, explores the current landscape of local journalism, with a particular focus on the role that philanthropy could play in revitalising the field.