Media professionals are advised that applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2013 round of the Simon Cumbers Media Fund.
The fund was established in memory of the late Irish journalist Simon Cumbers, who was killed in Saudi Arabia in 2004, while working with the BBC. The aim of the fund is to support quality coverage of development issues in the Irish media to increase public understanding of the challenges facing communities in the developing world and the progress which is being achieved.
The fund is also designed to stimulate debate and greater public understanding of Ireland’s role in fostering international development, including the work of Irish Aid, the Government’s programme for overseas development.