Deadline: 15-May-23
The Wits Centre for Journalism’s African Investigative Journalism Conference (AIJC) is offering grants to journalists to investigate health issues in seven African countries: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa. The grants are supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grants are intended to enable and encourage knowledge and awareness of health issues among journalists, to encourage the exposure of health issues and to give journalists the time and resources to do in-depth, investigative reporting.
Any journalist or team of journalists may apply, and the work may be done in any medium/media. You are not eligible if you have received a grant from us in the last two years. They favour work which is in the public interest, aims to reveal new information, is in-depth and investigative in nature and uses innovative techniques, approaches or technologies. They encourage applications from both experienced and new journalists. They may offer mentors for the less experienced.
Grant decisions are made by an independent panel of experts and are treated confidentially. It will be your responsibility to get the material published/broadcast. Please indicate to us where you intend to publish/broadcast. An expression of interest from the publisher/broadcaster will assist your application.
Funding Information
- Grants will range from $1000 to $3000, depending on the scope of the investigation, and the work must be completed within three months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any journalist or team of journalists may apply, and the work may be done in any medium/media. You are not eligible if you have received a grant from us in the last two years.
- They favour work which is in the public interest, aims to reveal new information, is in-depth and investigative in nature and uses innovative techniques, approaches or technologies.
- They encourage applications from both experienced and new journalists. They may offer mentors for the less experienced.
- Grant decisions are made by an independent panel of experts and are treated confidentially.
- It will be your responsibility to get the material published/broadcast. Please indicate to us where you intend to publish/broadcast. An expression of interest from the publisher/broadcaster will assist your application.
- They will publish the output on their websites and retain the right to use the material for publicity purposes.
For more information, visit AIJC.