Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 22/11/2020
Grant BBC Media Action and Media Development Investment Fund are inviting applications from public interest media organisations in Ethiopia that are committed to providing credible, independent news, information and debate to apply for capacity building support that will run from January 2021 to June 2023.
Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 08/12/2020
Grant Journalists, researchers and activists whose work focuses on Arab societies can apply for this program. Funded by the Ford Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is accepting submissions for its grants program on the theme of “Health and livelihoods in the Arab region: wellbeing, vulnerability and conflict.”
Deadline: On a rolling basis
Grant The Stanley Center is looking to commission content (written work, photo essays, etc.) that provides commentary or analysis on how the coronavirus pandemic (and government responses to it in countries around the world) has been impacting the factors for risk or resilience to mass violence and atrocities.
Deadline: 01/12/2020
Grant UNDEF supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. In this Round, UNDEF particularly welcomes projects that address challenges to civic space and democracy as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
Maria Tena Deadline: Rolling Basis
Job Opportunity Internews is seeking to recruit a team of Field Research Assistants to conduct data collection on information about COVID-19 in Thailand and other countries in the region. Field Research Assistant will contribute to efforts to reduce panic and improve public health outcomes.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: Rolling Basis
Job Opportunity Internews is seeking to hire a Lead Researcher. The Lead Researcher will manage the implementation of an Information Ecosystem Assessment focusing on Thai-language social media and other online sources of information about COVID-19.
9 March 2019 – New York City
The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for their 2019 conference.
14-15 February 2019 – Vienna, Austria
ECREA is hosting a Journalism Studies Conference in Vienna in 2019. The conference aims to explore media ecologies, coupled with shifts in public discourse, which are challenging received assumptions about journalism, and therefore also raising fundamental questions for journalism scholars.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 24 January 2019
Call for proposals: Funding of projects in Malaysia. The thematic is about enhancing CSOs’ Contribution to Governance and Development Processes, notably through the media as key actor to promote good governance, transparency and accountability (Objective 2).
22-23 November – Berlin, Germany
The 2018 FoME Symposium will address media capture, and to what extent this expanding strategy influences democracy, pluralism and freedom of the press and how to prevent “The Silent Takeover” of the free media.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentOn Nov. 27 at 15:00 CET, GFMD will be hosting a members-only webinar focusing on the challenges of preparing EU funding proposals and, specifically, of responding to the EIDHR Global Call which was launched earlier this month. The webinar is the second instalment in GFMD’s Capacity Building Programme.
15 Nov – 17 Nov, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Media Point is a series of annual international conferences, dedicated to discussing the changing media landscape in a professional, political, economic, and social context. These events gather leading academics, journalists, media executives, and experts from around the world to exchange experiences, establish new relationships, and debate challenges facing both traditional and new media. The topic for this iteration of conference is Media and Technology: Innovative Journalism in a Contested Political Space.
27 Sept – 28 Sept, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The International Open Data Conference (IODC) is an event designed to bring the global open data community together in order to learn, share, plan and collaborate on the future of open data. The unique nature of this event is that it gathers together in one location a diverse range of participants from the northern and southern hemispheres to define strategies to advance open data both locally and globally.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 20 October
Applications for the Iso Lomso Fellowships for Early Career African Researchers are now open. Iso Lomso fellowships provide an exceptional early career opportunity for Africa’s brightest minds in academia.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 31 October
The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) is looking for experienced international development experts to join our team of consultants for EC Framework Contract projects.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 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.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: Ongoing
The Social Media and Democracy Research Grant Program invites proposals that examine the impact of social media and related digital technologies on democracy and elections.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism (FNPI) and the Journalism Studies Center in the University of Andes-Ceper produced a report identifying eight key factors that contribute to understanding the digital audience in Colombia.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDiscover why the sharp decline in use of social media for news gives rise to fresh distribution avenues; why low trust in news creates opportunities to develop loyalty with your audiences, and uncover which strategies are delivering sustainable online revenues.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentA new report from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) explores the level and quality of media coverage of governance issues in Senegal. Senegalese journalists and media outlets have a strong interest in issues related to corruption and accountability, yet there are very few investigative stories published.