Deadline: 16/01/2021
Grant The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), in partnership with Kim’s family and friends, seek to make sure the kinds of stories Kim loved continue to be told, through the creation of the Kim Wall Memorial Fund. The IWMF’s Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide two $5,000 grants to journalists whose work embodies the spirit of Kim’s reporting.
STRENGHTENING SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS AND PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Deadline: 21/01/2021
Grant UNESCO Jakarta is looking for partner to design and implement capacity building training on the safety of journalists’ physical and/or digital nature as well as ethical and professional standards in journalism to take place between March and October 2021. Under the framework “Strengthening Safety of Journalists and Professional Standards in the Philippines”, the project aims at contributing to strengthening the safety of journalists in the Philippines through capacity building for the journalists.
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
In 1999 the UN declared November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to raise public awareness about systematical gender-based violence. GFMD members organised several activities and programmes to illuminate the issue.
IWMF LAUNCHES HOWARD G. BUFFETT FUND FOR WOMEN JOURNALISTS
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking applications for the Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Promoting the work and advancing the role of women in the news media across the globe is critical to transparency and a diversity of voices. The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists, the first funding initiative of its kind, enables the IWMF to dramatically expand its support of women journalists.
INTERNEWS – EMERGENCY GRANTS FOR WOMEN JOURNALISTS IN DISTRESS | UPDATED
Deadline: 12/2020
Grant Internews Iraq in one of its Project Our Voices, is proving emergency grants to assist women journalists in emergency or unexpected crises events that significantly impact individuals’ operations, security, or financial sustainability. The grant range includes; legal aid counter threats of imprisonment in extreme cases, psychological and medical care for incidents directly related to threats and crises caused by one’s work as a journalist.
GRANTS PROGRAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS [MENA]
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.”
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN EU SOUTHERN NEIGHBOURHOOD
Deadline: 08/12/2020
Grant The EU has announced a call for applications to Support Independent Media Serving the General Interest in the Southern Neighbourhood. The global objective of this call for proposals is to support pluralism, independence and resilience of independent media that contribute to the democratic aspirations and resilience in the societies in the region of the Southern Neighbourhood. The specific objective of this call for proposals is to strengthen the independence of independent media and journalists serving the public interest.
U.S. EMBASSY SUVA SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SMALL GRANT PROGRAM
Deadline: 31/12/2020
Grant The U.S. Embassy Suva is seeking applications for its Public Diplomacy Small Grant Program. The grant proposals must benefit Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga or Tuvalu and address the Public Diplomacy Initiatives or Embassy Goals.
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.
MEDIA DIVERSITY INSTITUTE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Deadline: 10 October 2020
Job Vacancy The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) is seeking a Communications Manager who will be responsible for managing a small team of both in-house and freelance contributors and have a chance to play a role in leading the debate on the media’s role in advocating for diversity and advancing social issues.
IWMF UNITED STATES JOURNALISM EMERGENCY FUND
Deadline: Ongoing
Funding Opportunity The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has partnered with the Craig Newmark Philanthropies to establish the United States Journalism Emergency Fund to support journalists in need in the United States of America.
WAN-IFRA LAUNCH SEASON THREE OF THE BACKSTORY MEDIA FREEDOM PODCAST
WAN-IFRA have just launched the third season of The Backstory, a podcast series exploring media freedom issues from across the globe. The series looks at challenging issues that journalists and media organisations are faced with, exploring how they tackle – and surmount – the obstacles to continue reporting the news.
THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S MEDIA FOUNDATION’S JOURNALISM RELIEF FUND
Deadline: Ongoing
Funding Opportunity The IWMF Emergency Fund is sustained with the support of individual donors to address the growing need to provide direct assistance to women journalists who are suffering as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
COUNTER-STEREOTYPICAL NARRATIVES: A GAIN FOR STIGMA-FREE AND INCLUSIVE MEDIA
13 March, 2020 – New York, USA
On March 13th, 2020, join the GFMD Women in Media Working Group for a panel discussion on the effects of gender-equal reporting on the role of women in society. The event, co-organised by GFMD, CFI, Fondation Hirondelle, Free Press Unlimited, IMS, and Sembramedia, with support from Fojo Media Institute, is taking place as an NGO parallel event at the 64th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (NGO CSW64).
WOMEN IN MEDIA: BALANCE THE IMBALANCE
On International Women’s Day 2020, GFMD and over thirty other media organisations from around the world call upon all media leaders and journalists around the globe to take action against the skewed balance and representation of gender in the news – both in terms of numbers and in portrayal.
REFLECT REALITY: INCREASING WOMEN’S VOICES IN THE NEWS
On March 2, United for News launched Reflect Reality, a digital manual to help newsrooms include more authoritative female and diverse voices in their stories. Led by Internews in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, Reflect Reality incorporates proven strategies and lessons learned to address this disparity.
WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD AND REGULATE A GENDER INCLUSIVE WEST AFRICAN MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
11-13 February, 2020 – Saly, Senegal
Panos Institute West Africa’s “Building and Regulating a Gender Inclusive West African Media Environment Together” symposium aims to facilitate a shared and critical review of gender mainstreaming in the media environment (political, legal, and professional) as a condition for the production of gender sensitive and inclusive content.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR IWMF’S KIM WALL MEMORIAL FUND 2020
Deadline: 17 December 2019
Funding Opportunity The International Women’s Media Foundation are searching for a journalist whose work embodies the spirit of Kim Wall’s reporting while covering subculture and what Kim described as “the undercurrents of rebellion.”
BREAKING DOWN SILOS: CROSS-SECTOR APPROACHES TO COMBATTING ONLINE GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
10 December 2019 – Washington, D.C.
As part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence (GBV), ARTICLE 19 and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) are hosting a multi-sector discussion and day-of-action to combat online gender-based violence against women.
WAN-IFRA WOMEN IN NEWS AFRICA ACCELERATOR 2020
Deadline: 15 December 2019
Call for Applications The WIN Accelerator is an intensive, 9-month long career and leadership programme for women journalists and editors from Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe who wish to develop their leadership skills.