Deadline- 15 July 2013
Proposals are invited by The Center for Independent Journalism Budapest for Investigative Media Report in Southeast Europe. The mission of this program is to result in new, substantial information gained and presented through investigative journalism tools about practices and cases of corruption, clientelism and abusive, excessive control of the media by particular interests.
Related Areas-
- lack of transparency and concentration in media ownership
- lack of transparency in media privatization and financing
- influence of governments on media ownership and finances
- rise and fall of local, national and regional media empires in South East Europe
- corrupt practices in operating and governing public service media and regulatory bodies
- politically biased allocation of public resources (frequencies etc.) in the media sector
- political and economic dependence of the media outlets and partisan journalism
- media market irregularities
- distribution of state advertising in the media
- organized crime and the media
- irregularities in labour relations
- attacks and threats aimed at journalists engaged in disclosing corruption and clientelism
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Under this call, teams of journalists, investigative journalism centres or project-based journalist coalitions from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia are encouraged to submit proposals.
- Teams consisting of journalists from two or more countries who pool their competences for the investigation are also eligible to apply. The applicant team must include journalists who are citizens of the five countries listed above.
- In exceptional cases of relevance, individual journalists may receive grants, if they fulfil all the requirements. Preference, however, will be given to co-operating journalists.
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