Application Deadline: 30 September 2024, 11:59 PM (Asia/Bangkok)
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is launching its second Journalist Fellowship for Infrastructure Reporting in Southeast Asia to equip early- to mid-career journalists with training, mentoring and story grants to report on infrastructural development and its impacts on the environment and human rights. Participating journalists will also learn measures and strategies to mitigate potential physical and digital risks that they or the communities involved may face during the production of their stories.
Via a hybrid workshop (10 hours online and two days in-person) in November 2024 and subsequent story grants, the fellowship aims to strengthen journalists’ knowledge and skills to produce engaging and impactful stories on infrastructural development while ensuring a Do No Harm approach when engaging and reporting on vulnerable individuals and communities.
Fellowship Logistics
- EJN plan to select 16 journalists in October 2024 with the expectation that selected journalists will participate in the training in November 2024.
Through in-depth reporting and safety training, participants will engage with trainers and journalists as well as the broader EJN network to increase their capacity to report on the social and environmental impacts of local and national infrastructure development. Participants will also gain access to an online knowledge portal with context-specific resources and safety tools created by the STRIDES project.
Participants who complete the training will be invited to apply for story grants to support the production of media reporting on infrastructural development.
Pending completion of the training by all 16 participants and submission of approved story pitches, EJN expect to award 16 story grants with an average budget of $2,000 each in December 2024 and expect the stories to be completed by April 2025. Applicants should consider this timeline when drafting their work plan.
Eligibility
Participants can be from Malaysia, Brunei, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
Applicants must:
- Commit to attending all days of both the online and in-person workshops.
- Have at least two years of experience reporting on infrastructure and/or environmental topics in any medium (online, print, video, audio) from all types of media organizations – international, national, local and community-based.
- Understand and be able to communicate in English.
- Permit republication by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network of any output as a result of participation in the workshop.
More Info: Earth Journalism Journalist Fellowship for Infrastructure Reporting
