Deadline- 2 September 2013
Applications are invited by The European Journalism Centre (EJC) for creative reporting to cover international development issues. The mission of this program is to advance creative reporting approaches, thus enabling a better coverage of international development issues.
Innovative reporting projects will be awarded considerable funding, with an aim to support journalists, editors, and development stakeholders to perform thorough research and to develop new, exciting, and even experimental reporting, employing state of the art presentation methods and techniques of journalistic storytelling.
Benefits-
- Projects of great impact and high visibility, applicants must apply for a minimum grant of €8,000. Applicants may apply for full or partial story funding.
- Full grants may cover direct expenses for journalistic research and study trips, including travel and accommodation, possible technical costs for equipment or crew, information procurement costs (such as access to professional databases or original data gathering efforts), graphics design and visualization, adaptation of software, and other justified costs incurred directly for the implementation of the project.
- Once the original story has been published, all projects funded through this grant project will be further distributed (in English) via this website. Publication under a Creative Commons License is encouraged, in order to allow for global and free access.
Eligibility & Criteria-
Journalists and relevant to media outlets that target audiences in one or more of the eight European countries with the highest net official development assistance are eligible to apply: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Media published in any of the official languages of the admissible countries may submit an application.
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