Fellowship Openings
The Knight International Journalism Fellowships program makes lasting, visible changes that improve the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the year-long program sends international media professionals to countries where there are opportunities to promote reliable, insightful journalism that holds officials accountable.
Knight International Fellows work in these key regions: Asia/Pacific, Eurasia/Former Soviet Union, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, and Sub-Saharan African.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Strong leadership qualities
- Fluency in the local language of the host country
- Demonstrated knowledge of project focus and experience in project medium/media
- Minimum of 10 years journalism experience
- Training experience is a plus
- Fellowship is open to any nationality
- Fellowship duration is a minimum of one year, unless otherwise specified
An orientation program for new Knight International Journalism Fellows providing information about the Fellowships and training in digital media, mentoring techniques and monitoring and evaluation methods takes place twice annually.
Country: Bangladesh
Project Description: In honor of Rebecca Lipkin’s dedication to broadcast journalism and her work as a Knight International Journalism Fellow training journalists in Eastern Europe in 1999, the International Center for Journalists will send a fellow to Bangladesh in early 2011. For approximately a one-month period, the Rapid-Response Fellow will support the development of the Television News Agency (TvNA). Launched in 2009 by the Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication (BCDJC) and Knight International Journalism Fellow Kawser Mahmud, TvNA is the first women’s broadcast news agency in Bangladesh. In partnership with BCDJC, the fellow will help women journalists produce quality programming on issues that affect women and children for TvNA. The fellow also will help TvNA and its partners develop better newsroom management practices. The ideal candidate will have broadcast journalism and media-management experience.
Requirements:
10 years of broadcast journalism experience
Media-management experience
Demonstrated understanding of best journalistic practices
Journalism training or teaching experience
Country: Nigeria
Project Description: The fellow will lead a one-year project in partnership with key local media organizations, mentoring and training journalists to improve the quality, quantity and impact of health coverage. The project will work to create coverage that affects policy and helps save the lives of those threatened by deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The fellow will help build networks of health journalists that connect with each other to develop sources and resources and serve as mentors for their colleagues. The project also aims to improve business-management practices to make health reporting sustainable.
Language Requirement: English required, Hausa or Yoruba preferred.
Skills: Experience as media trainer/manager, background in health journalism.
To apply click: http://www.knight.icfj.org/OurFellows/ApplyforaFellowship/tabid/64/Default.aspx
25 January 2011
19 January 2011
Funding available to women media entrepreneurs
Deadline: April 4, 2011
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led projects that will rock the world of journalism.
We will fund individuals who have original ideas to create new Web sites, mobile news services or other entrepreneurial initiatives that offer interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest.
What is your juicy idea? What’s been stirring in your mind? What work do you feel compelled to do? How can you improve or redefine journalism? What new project would give people the information they need to make decisions or help make the world a better place? Whose voice isn’t being heard?
The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs program will give one-time funding of $12,000 to women who have the vision, skills and experience to launch a new venture. These can be solo ideas or team projects spearheaded by women.
Eligibility:
Funding is available for start-ups only.
Projects must launch (at least a live beta) within 10 months.
Projects must have a plan for continuing after initial funding has ended.
Projects must have journalistic value.
Projects may be independent or housed within traditional media.
Personal blogs or one-time documentaries will not be funded.
Awardees will receive funding through a subcontract if they are an individual or affiliated with a business; and through a grant if they are affiliated with a non-profit institution.
Strong applicants would:
Provide information to help people live their lives or make informed civic choices.
Adhere to principles of accuracy, truth and fairness.
Advance women in the news industry.
Show promise of being replicable or scalable.
Recipients must agree to post brief weekly blog updates to thewww.newmediawomen.org Web site sharing their process and experience during the development stage. Recipients agree to participate and share lessons learned at a conference of new media women entrepreneurs in Spring 2011.
NOTE: Funding may not be used to cover indirect or overhead costs. Fiscal sponsors may not take a percentage of New Media Women funding.
Questions? Chat with us here!
Start Your Application
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led projects that will rock the world of journalism.
We will fund individuals who have original ideas to create new Web sites, mobile news services or other entrepreneurial initiatives that offer interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest.
What is your juicy idea? What’s been stirring in your mind? What work do you feel compelled to do? How can you improve or redefine journalism? What new project would give people the information they need to make decisions or help make the world a better place? Whose voice isn’t being heard?
The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs program will give one-time funding of $12,000 to women who have the vision, skills and experience to launch a new venture. These can be solo ideas or team projects spearheaded by women.
Eligibility:
Funding is available for start-ups only.
Projects must launch (at least a live beta) within 10 months.
Projects must have a plan for continuing after initial funding has ended.
Projects must have journalistic value.
Projects may be independent or housed within traditional media.
Personal blogs or one-time documentaries will not be funded.
Awardees will receive funding through a subcontract if they are an individual or affiliated with a business; and through a grant if they are affiliated with a non-profit institution.
Strong applicants would:
Provide information to help people live their lives or make informed civic choices.
Adhere to principles of accuracy, truth and fairness.
Advance women in the news industry.
Show promise of being replicable or scalable.
Recipients must agree to post brief weekly blog updates to thewww.newmediawomen.org Web site sharing their process and experience during the development stage. Recipients agree to participate and share lessons learned at a conference of new media women entrepreneurs in Spring 2011.
NOTE: Funding may not be used to cover indirect or overhead costs. Fiscal sponsors may not take a percentage of New Media Women funding.
Questions? Chat with us here!
Start Your Application
13 January 2011
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2011
UNESCO invites Member States, regional and international organizations, professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2011.
The purpose of the Prize, supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation and JP/Politiken Newspapers LTD, is to honour a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if this involved risk.
The prize is intended to reward journalists who have shown dedication in the name of freedom of expression and information and to afford them the international recognition they deserve. Awarded annually, the Prize is marked by a ceremony and the winner is presented with the sum of US$25,000.
The 2011 Prize will be awarded during the World Press Freedom Day conference, which will take place in May.
How to submit your nomination
Nominations for the Prize should be submitted by filling out the form in English or French and sending it before 15 February 2011 by normal mail or by email to:
UNESCO
Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15
France
Tel: 33.1.45.68.42.12
Fax: 33.1.45.68.55.84
E-mail: s.coudray(at)unesco.org
The purpose of the Prize, supported by the Guillermo Cano Foundation, the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation and JP/Politiken Newspapers LTD, is to honour a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially if this involved risk.
The prize is intended to reward journalists who have shown dedication in the name of freedom of expression and information and to afford them the international recognition they deserve. Awarded annually, the Prize is marked by a ceremony and the winner is presented with the sum of US$25,000.
The 2011 Prize will be awarded during the World Press Freedom Day conference, which will take place in May.
How to submit your nomination
Nominations for the Prize should be submitted by filling out the form in English or French and sending it before 15 February 2011 by normal mail or by email to:
UNESCO
Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace
1, rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15
France
Tel: 33.1.45.68.42.12
Fax: 33.1.45.68.55.84
E-mail: s.coudray(at)unesco.org
11 January 2011
The Pulitzer Center travel grants for projects on under-reported population issues.
Date: 11/01/11
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for projects on under-reported population issues.
http://ijnet.org/opportunities/90687
Travel grants will be used for the production of cross-platform reporting projects to be placed in major media outlets. Most awards fall in the range of US$2,000 to US$10,000.
Grants are open to print, online and broadcast journalists of any nationality. Applicants should submit proposals as soon as possible. For more information, click here.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for projects on under-reported population issues.
http://ijnet.org/opportunities/90687
Travel grants will be used for the production of cross-platform reporting projects to be placed in major media outlets. Most awards fall in the range of US$2,000 to US$10,000.
Grants are open to print, online and broadcast journalists of any nationality. Applicants should submit proposals as soon as possible. For more information, click here.
The Pulitzer Center travel grants for projects on under-reported population issues.
Date: 11/01/11
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for projects on under-reported population issues.
Travel grants will be used for the production of cross-platform reporting projects to be placed in major media outlets. Most awards fall in the range of US$2,000 to US$10,000.
Grants are open to print, online and broadcast journalists of any nationality. Applicants should submit proposals as soon as possible. For more information, click here.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for projects on under-reported population issues.
Travel grants will be used for the production of cross-platform reporting projects to be placed in major media outlets. Most awards fall in the range of US$2,000 to US$10,000.
Grants are open to print, online and broadcast journalists of any nationality. Applicants should submit proposals as soon as possible. For more information, click here.
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