Deadline: 5-Nov-21
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has launched the Global Health Security Fund to support up to 20 journalistic projects, being delivered by individuals or teams of freelance and/or staff journalists, on the topic of ‘global health security’.
Purpose: The 2021 Global Health Security Call is a project that will deliver grant funding and facilitate research opportunities to support in-depth journalistic analysis on the topic of global health security.
Mission: To incentivise and enable impactful journalistic coverage of the topic, in order to create sustained relationships between freelance journalists and media organisations, and engage the public, key stakeholders and decision makers about the topic.
Vision: To inspire all opinion-forming media organisations in Europe to report on big health and policy challenges and solutions, and demonstrate the importance of journalism as a trusted, evidence-based means of communicating.
Objectives
- Support: Identify and fund 20 journalists/ teams of journalists (freelancers and staff journalists) across France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Sweden that can efficiently execute and fully produce stories that:
- reveal new information
- focus on under-reported subjects/ concepts and/or focus on different angles of already-reported subjects/ concepts
- focus on solutions rather than problems
- highlight themes re. equitable access and the importance of addressing such issues in low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries (LMICs)
- demonstrate good technical knowledge and evidence-based research
- Connect: Help to broker constructive relationships between the funded journalists and with relevant external stakeholders and experts, in order to enhance their participation in the Call, help them to successfully publish their stories, and demonstrate the benefits of collaboration for health reporting.
- Inspire: Demonstrate the business case for media organisations to work with freelance journalists on health reporting, to encourage other organisations to adopt this approach.
- Secure ongoing investment for health-focused, solutions-driven collaborative journalism in Europe, in order to create ongoing positive outcomes for citizens.
- Engage: Support at least 20 stories to be published within a three-month period (at least 20 w/c 14 February 2022) that:
- identify funding gaps related to the topic
- help mobilise resources in the seven target countries
- encourage resource commitment that helps less developed countries
- raise awareness of the value of long-term investment in global health R&D, especially in relation to pandemic preparedness, equitable access, and manufacturing capacity building.
Funding Information
- The Call will provide grants of up to $7,500 USD per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants that meet the following criteria are eligible to apply to the Call:
- Applicants must be freelance or permanently employed individual journalists (staff journalists), or small teams of journalists, and should be experienced in reporting on the topic of health, science, development and/or policy.
- There is no citizenship, nationality or residence/ location restriction on the applicants
- Applicants should have a track record of publication in respected media outlets in one or more of the following countries: France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway or Sweden.
- Freelance applicants should be signed up to a press regulator, trust initiative, or part of a press association
- Applicants must complete, in full, the dedicated application form and provide requested documentation including:
- a project budget
- relevant policy/ procedure/ supporting documents
- for freelancers, a minimum of two of the following should be published on your website or available via upload: Mission statement, Privacy policy/ data protection policy, Relevant qualification(s) in journalism or related field(s), Current CV/ history of working with trusted news organisations (in one or more of the seven target countries), History of working in/reporting on the topic of health, science, development and/or policy, Press card
- for organisations, a minimum of three of the following should be published on your website: Mission statement, Editorial policy, Code of conduct, Transparency statement, Complaints procedure, Diversity policy, Privacy policy, Whistleblower policy
- Applicants must have a bank account that accepts international payments.
For more information, visit https://grant.ejc.net/s/global-health-security-call
