Deadline- March 8, 2013
The International Reporting Project is pleased to invite eligible candidates form worldwide to apply for reporting fellowships for international journalists. Fellowship is supported by a new grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Priority may be given to stories focusing on international health, environment, conflict and post-conflict resolution, refugees and humanitarian assistance, press freedom, the role of women and children, cultural and religious change, Islamic world issues, economic development and social change and human rights issues. During some year’s programs, there may be a specific number of fellowships reserved for certain topics.
Other Benefits-
The amount of the stipend varies with each fellowship. A stipend of US$12,000 will be provided to each of the five international journalists on religion, while U.S. religion fellows will each receive a stipend of $5,000 in addition to roundtrip international tickets. IRP new media fellows receive a stipend of US$15,000 over the course of one year.
Eligibility & Criteria-
These fellowships are open to journalists in any country in the world outside of the United States. Qualified applicants will include influential journalists and media figures who are actively engaged in the new media landscape in order to support reporting projects on religion.
Requirement-
- International IRP Religion Fellows should propose producing both long- and short-form reports in a variety of media, such as in-depth stories that will appear in print, online, radio or television media, as well as blog posts, tweets, slideshows and video documentaries.
- Applicants should describe in detail (at least 1,000 words) the kinds of stories they will cover in their countries or regions. All subjects dealing with the role of religion in the applicant’s country would be eligible for consideration, including tensions or conflict between communities of different faiths, as well as the intersection of religion and politics, economics, access to health, housing, water, the impact of religion on arts and culture, religion and human rights, treatment of minorities and other issues.
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