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International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) 2018 Knight International Journalism Award – Washington, D.C. USA

by OFA
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Application Deadline: Sunday, February18, 2018.

Each November, the International Center for Journalists honors outstanding colleagues with the Knight International Journalism Award at the annual gala in Washington, D.C. ICFJ are now seeking nominees whose pioneering coverage or media innovations have a significant impact on the lives of people around the world. Candidates can be reporters, editors, technologists, media managers, citizen journalists or bloggers. Please send in your nominations by Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018.

The award reflects the mission of ICFJ’s Knight Fellowships, which foster a global culture of news innovation. The program is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The winners will be honored at ICFJ’s Awards Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8, 2018. For more information on the awards, please send an email to Luisa Pires Luciano at [email protected] or 1.202.349.7601.

For more information on the Awards Dinner, please contact Andria Moore at [email protected] or 1.202.349.7635.

Candidates who meet the Awards criteria may nominate themselves.

You can find the nomination form here.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the ICFJ 2018 Knight International Journalism Award 

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Fellowships

ICFJ/UN Foundation Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship 2015 (All Expense paid).

by lanredahunsi
written by lanredahunsi

Application Deadline: May 12 2014

When: June 29-July 8, 2014,

As part of the Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship, a joint program of the UN Foundation and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), Nine journalists will be selected for a reporting trip to South Africa and Mozambique from June 29-July 8, 2014, 

The fellows will be in Johannesburg during The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Conference, where the journalists will be able to interview health experts from around the world who can provide global context for the challenges and opportunities facing the field. The reporting tour will also offer the chance to conduct site visits to villages, clinics and schools to speak with women, children and health professionals about the issues they face every day in Mozambique and South Africa.

Fellows will depart from their home countries for South Africa on June 29, 2014, and return from Mozambique on July 8, 2014.

Benefit:

  • The fellowship covers all costs, including airfare, visas, accommodations, ground transportation and meals.

Eligibility Requirement:

  • Applicants can be from anywhere in the world.
  • They must be journalists who currently work full-time at a media organization and
  • Are fluent in English

The Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship is organized by the International Center for Journalists and sponsored by the United Nations Foundation.

Apply Now for the Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the  Maternal and Child Health Reporting Fellowship

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Internships

Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program.

by lanredahunsi
written by lanredahunsi

Application Deadline: April 15 2014

When: The Fall 2014 program begins on September 10 and ends on December 16, 2014,

The Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester.

The internship is designed to give international students an opportunity to cover events in the U.S. capital, as well as to report and write feature stories for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire. Stories written by Scripps Howard interns may be published in newspapers across the United States.

Eligibility:

  • The internship is open to undergraduate journalism or communications students who intend to pursue careers in journalism after graduation.
  • Interns must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
  • Interns who are selected in the program will work in one of two periods: January to April or September to December.

The internship is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, which strives to advance the cause of a free press through support of excellence in journalism, quality journalism education and professional development.

International participants in the program are recruited and selected by the International Center for Journalists, which provides training and other assistance to journalists across the globe.

Apply Now for the Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program.

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African-Story-Challenge-2013
Call for Applications

The African Story Challenge Health Cycle open for entries. ($20,000 for 20 Projects)

by lanredahunsi
written by lanredahunsi

Deadline: 13th October 2013

The African Media Initiative (AMI) is pleased to announce the start of the second round of its pan-African journalism competition.

The African Story Challenge is now inviting applications for funding of great story ideas on health.

Twenty projects shortlisted for the final prize will be awarded grants of up to $20,000 each to produce health narratives that use innovative journalistic storytelling techniques around the theme of diseases prevention and treatment in Africa.

Shortlisted stories will focus specifically on issues such as: sanitation and water-borne diseases, infectious and noninfectious diseases, neglected diseases, vaccines and immunisation. Submissions should include investigative, data-driven stories that employ multi-platform approaches and engage the public through social media and other digital tools.

The African Story Challenge advisory council comprising senior journalists and editors will oversee the shortlisting process. The finalists will be brought together for intensive sessions to improve their project ideas. Cross-country reporting and collaboration or joint applications between different media organisations is highly encouraged.

An independent international panel of editors and media experts will judge the entries. Grantees who produce the best stories published or broadcast in media that reach African audiences will win cash prizes or a major reporting trip abroad.

The Story Challenge is a project of the African Media Initiative (AMI), the continent’s largest association of media owners and operators. AMI content development director and former Knight International Journalism Fellow Joseph Warungu is leading the project. The Knight Fellowships are administered by theInternational Center for Journalists(ICFJ).

“Without good health there is no wealth. This competition is aimed at encouraging journalists and media organisations to break away from the routine issues on the daily agenda and pitch to us bold and creative ideas on health,” said Warungu, a former BBC Africa Editor.

AMI Chief Executive Amadou Mahtar Ba added,

“we want to support innovation in the telling of more and better stories on health and development in Africa. AMI is committed to support the media to expand coverage of fundamental issues that matter to Africans and the building of a strong media sector.”

Winners of the first round of the grant programme, which opened in May 2013 and focused on Agriculture and Food Security, will be announced in November. Other themes to be launched next year in this $1M challenge include business and technology.

Key Dates

2nd September 2013:  Competition opens for entries

13th October 2013: Competition closes for entries

18th November 2013: 20 shortlisted candidates to be informed

12th – 17th January 2014: Intensive training boot camp

27th January – 9th March 2014: Field production and post-production. All 20 shortlisted candidates will be given reporting grants following the boot camp and will have six weeks to produce and Publish their stories

9th March 2014: Submission of stories for judging

17th March 2014 – 30th March 2014: External judging process

April 2014: Announcement of winners

The African Story Challenge is supported by an $800,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The programme also has support from the African Development Bank, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).

Apply Now for the African Story Challenge

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the African Story Challenge

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