Deadline: June 9, 2024.

Internews Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering two media grants averaging $20,000 per grant to support media and journalism activities to strengthen reporting on infrastructure development and public engagement on infrastructure debates.   

Examples of activities that can be supported include, but are not limited to: 

• Training workshops and/or reporting field trips that bring journalists and content producers together with experts on infrastructure development and environmental impacts; 
• Development of resources, such as virtual learning courses or innovative tools for reporters to conduct media investigations; 
• Reporting grants for journalists and content producers; 
• Mentoring of journalists and content producers; 
• Investigative and/or collaborative infrastructure media reporting projects with a local, national or regional focus; 
• Cross-sectoral collaborations and knowledge exchange between journalists, information providers and other key actors, such as researchers and governmental bodies; 
• Partnership and network building for environmental reporting, such as the formation of an journalists’ network or an investigative environmental reporting partnership focusing on infrastructure; 
• Transboundary media reporting and content sharing among media/information outlets based in different localities or countries; 
• Open data platform that tracks infrastructure development and projects, and provides analysis from the data collected. 

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Media outlets from Brunei, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Laos, Singapore and Thailand are welcome to apply.  

Applicants must:   

• Be a registered media outlet based in any of the above-listed Southeast Asia countries and eligible to receive international funding.  
• Have previous experience conducting capacity-building activities for journalists;  
• Understand and be able to communicate in English. For the purposes of this funding opportunity, we will only be accepting applications in English. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to consider applications in other languages at this time. Applicants must either have a working understanding of English or have a translator available to assist with communication with Internews staff. 
• Permit republication by Internews EJN of any output as a result of the media grant.    
• Former EJN grantees are eligible to apply. However, they will prioritize new grantees, and will take the performance of  previous grantees into consideration during the selection. Please note, this opportunity is for media outlets only. 
• Applicants can produce stories and training resources in local languages suitable for target communities. But all stories should also be available in English. Project budget can be used toward local or English translations as needed.

GRANT

 They are offering two media grants averaging $20,000 per grant.

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