Deadline: 15-Jun-22
The Free Press Unlimited is inviting Journalists residing in the Baltic countries, Visegrád Four and Southern Europe to apply for small production grants for cross-border stories as part of the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative.
The Free Press Unlimited particularly welcome applications from Ukraine, Belarus or Russia who are currently legally residing in the EU and and had to leave their own countries as a result of the war in Ukraine and/or related to it imposed media censorship in Belarus and Russia.
Thematic Areas
The story should cover one of the following thematic areas:
- Human rights and migration;
- Disinformation;
- Environmental crime;
- Corruption and money laundering.
Funding Information
They expect to award up to five grants, each worth up to 5000 EUR.
What does the grant fund?
- Awarded grants can cover:
- Freelance fees
- Travel, accommodation and subsistence
- Graphics, design and visualisation
- Renting of equipment for production and post-production work
- Translations into other languages with the aim of wider reach
- The grant programme does not cover:
- Salaries of staff journalists
- Costs that took place prior to the grant or previously published work
- Indirect costs (overheads)
- Purchases of equipment or general-purpose software licenses
- Any unethical or illegal activities
Eligibility Criteria
Staff or freelance journalists from or residing in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Spain. Ukrainian, Belarusian or Russian journalists working in the above mentioned countries.
Which stories will be selected?
- The proposed story should be of relevance to at least two EU member states, at least one of which is a target country for this project (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, Italy or Spain). Alternatively, it may be relevant to one of the target EU countries and Ukraine, Belarus or Russia.
- The proposed story should be published by at least one media outlet directly targeting audiences in one of the ten target countries of the project.
- Members of the team working on the story should be at least from two EU member states, at least one of which is a target country of the project.
- Media organisations that are state owned and/or editorially controlled by state authorities are not eligible for funding.
For more information, visit https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en/jobs/journalists-apply-production-grants-cross-border-stories