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NABJ ETHEL PAYNE FELLOWSHIP

Application Deadline: Midnight PT on February 29, 2024

LOCATION: USA

The NABJ Ethel Payne Fellowship is a $5,000 award bestowed to a worthy journalist. The fellowship provides an opportunity for an NABJ member to gain foreign correspondence experience and the necessary assistance to complete a project or singular report.

ELIGIBILITY:

Must be an NABJ member in good standing

Mid-career and veteran journalists with at least 7 years full-time journalism experience

Fellowship winner agrees to sign a waiver of consent to provide NABJ with expressed written consent to publish the final story and its elements (text, videos, photos), and to use the winner’s name, image and likeness in materials related to promoting the award

Fellowship winner agrees to name the National Association of Black Journalists as a supporter in its publication materials; suggested wording to come at a later date

Funds distributed to the winner are taxable, as required by law, and the responsibility of the winner
Completion of application requirements
If selected, failure to meet the noted criteria will result in a refund of funds to NABJ.

BENEFIT:

A $5,000 award bestowed to a worthy journalist.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

Application Deadline: 8 February 2024

LOCATION: Belgium

This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.

ELIGIBILITY:

Any incorporated legal entity can apply. In the application it should describe its experience with investigative journalism, environmental issues, and/or the development of supporting services. The proposed project should contribute to the further development of environmental investigative journalism in Europe.

Applying entities do not necessarily need to be based in Europe. However, the proposed project should clearly advance investigative environmental journalism in Europe.

If the project is a collaboration between several organisations, one organisation should apply for the Journalismfund Europe grant. In the application form you can provide information about the partnering organisations and their role in the project.

If a grant is awarded, the applying organisation is responsible for the project and the grant towards Journalismfund Europe.

In the budget that is part of the application, only personnel costs of the applying organisation can be listed under ‘Personnel costs’. All costs of partner organisations should be listed under ‘Operating costs’.

BENEFIT:

The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported projects will be around €115,000.

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