Story Grant and Training Program for Indigenous Environmental Journalists
Deadline: 18 January 2024
The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering reporting grants to Indigenous journalists to support the production of in-depth environmental stories that call attention to climate justice, biodiversity, sustainable ecosystems, Indigenous sovereignty and leadership, and other issues related to the rights and well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities…[more]
Applications open for Sandbox Fund 2024
Deadline: 5 February 2024
The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling…[more]
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellowships
Deadline: 4 February 2024
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute invites proposals from individuals and organizations who wish to partner with them on practical innovative projects for community centered news, journalists and the communities they serve…[more]
Call for Entries: Sigma Awards for Data Journalism 2024
Deadline: 17 January 2024
The Sigma Awards invite data teams, big or small, but also individuals or freelancers, to submit the great projects they’ve done throughout the past year…[more]
Call for Submissions: Stories on Umbria International Journalism Award (14th Edition)
Deadline: 11 February 2024
The Chamber of Commerce of Umbria is seeking submissions for the Stories on Umbria International Journalism Award, reserved to those articles dealing with the region’s artistic-cultural-environmental points of excellence and the high quality economic-productive system, bringing the national and international focus on Umbria and its territory and contributing to valorising the best of Umbrian business production…[more]
WordCamp Europe looking for Media Partners
Deadline: 9 February 2024
The WordCamp Europe is calling Media Partners who can deliver high-quality reporting that reaches all corners of the globally diverse WordPress Community…[more]
Porsche Awards for Young Talents in Advertising Film
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg is accepting nominations for the Porsche Awards to offer young talents in advertising based anywhere in the world the chance to present themselves and their work to experienced trade experts, thereby paving the way to professional and successful careers for the committed young teams…[more]
Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists
Deadline: 12 February 2024
The Metcalf Institute is pleased to announce the Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists (AWJ) to address the environmental change gap, and to be a valuable resource for journalists working in a wide variety of beats…[more]
2024 EO Climate Crisis Photography Competition
Deadline: 26 April 2024
Earth.Org’s Nature and Wildlife Photo Competition 2024 is now open for submissions, where you will have opportunity showcase your work to the world, and win one of three cash prizes…[more]
Nominations open for New Media Writing Prize Competition 2023
Deadline: 1 February 2024
Nominations are now open for the New Media Writing Prize to encourage and promote the best in new-media writing and leading the way toward the future of the ‘written’ word and interactive storytelling…[more]
Call for Applications: Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Applications are now open for the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope…[more]
Call for Entries: Nikon Small World in Motion Competition
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Entries are now open for the Nikon Small World Competition to recognize and applaud the efforts of those involved with photography through the light microscope…[more]
Submissions open for Young Filmmakers Contest
Deadline: 25 June 2024
One Earth Film Festival, a production of One Earth Collective, is accepting applications for the Young Filmmakers Contest from students in grade 3 up through age 25…[more]
TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting: Uncovering Commercial Bribery
Deadline: 31 January 2024
Applications are now open for the TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting to recognize journalism that uncovers business-related bribery and financial crime with the goal of increasing commercial transparency and good governance…[more]
Childnet Film Competition: International 2024
Deadline: 22 April 2024
Do you know any young people aged 7-18 who are passionate about film? Can they tell a good story, create animation or inspire positive change? Would they like to make a short film about online safety? If yes, then apply now!…[more]
EURORDIS Photo Black Pearl Awards – Photo Contest
Deadline: 31 January 2024
Apply for the EURORDIS Photo Award, an opportunity to visually express what it means to live with a rare disease and to share your story with the rare disease community and beyond…[more]
Call for Nominations: The Whickers’ Film and TV Funding Award
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Whickers is seeking nominations for the Film and TV Funding Award, presented annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary…[more]
Prix Elysée 2025: An International Photography Prize
Deadline: 29 January 2024
Nominations are now open for the Prix Elysée 2025, an international photography prize of CHF 80,000 dedicated to mid-career artists created by Photo Elysée with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier…[more]
Call for Nominations: Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics
Deadline: 16 January 2024
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks nominations for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics…[more]
Nominations open for Livingston Awards 2024
Deadline: 1 February 2024
The Wallace House Center for Journalists is accepting nominations for the Livingston Awards…[more]
Serious Mental Illness Short Film Competition
Deadline: 17 March 2024
Voices With Impact’s Serious Mental Illness Short Film Competition is an open call for short films that explore issues related to diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder and can results in impairments that interfere with a person’s life and ability to function…[more]
Solutions Journalism Network Awards
Deadline: 16 January 2024
The Solutions Journalism Network’s awards program recognizes, amplifies and celebrates the best of solutions journalism and by recognizing these stories, SJN uplift what excellence in solutions journalism looks like…[more]
The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
Deadline: 29 March 2024
Are you a journalist with a great idea for a high-impact story that “Follows the Money” but few resources to get it done? The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism would like to hear from you…[more]
Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award 2024
Deadline: 22 February 2024
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University is pleased to announce the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award to provide the means for promising early-career, creative nonfiction writers to report on an untold story that uncovers truths about the human condition…[more]
World Justice Challenge: The Rule of Law Foundation of Democracy
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The World Justice Project (WJP) is pleased to announce the World Justice Challenge, a global competition to identify, recognize, and promote good practices and high-impact initiatives that protect and advance the rule of law…[more]
The Whickers Film & TV Funding Award
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Whickers is currently inviting documentary directors working on your 1st feature to submit applications for the Film & TV Funding Award…[more]
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program
Deadline: 15 January 2024
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists from around the globe, giving them an opportunity to explore science, technology, and the craft of journalism; to concentrate on a specialty in science; and to learn at some of the top research universities in the world…[more]
Applications open for Logan Science Journalism Program
Deadline: 25 January 2024
The Logan Science Journalism Program offers science journalists, writers, editors, and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and immerse themselves in basic biomedical or environmental research…[more]
World Press Institute Fellowship Program 2024
Deadline: 15 February 2024
Professional journalists from around the world are invited to apply for 10 World Press Institute fellowship slots…[more]
Call for Applications: FRONTIERS Science Journalism Residency Program 2023 (Round 1)
Deadline: 5 March 2024
FRONTIERS, an initiative funded by the European Research Council, invites applications from science journalists worldwide for immersive residencies at European research institutions…[more]
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
Deadline: 15 February 2024
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is accepting applications for the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to honour a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and, or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, and especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger…[more]
Tech x Religion Feature Reporting Fellowship 2024
Deadline: 31 January 2024
They are looking for three reporting fellows to work on ambitious feature stories about how technology is transforming religious practices in Latin America, Africa, Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe…[more]
FIBA Photo Contest “Basketball For Good” (7th Edition)
Deadline: 21 February 2024
MIES (Switzerland) – The FIBA Foundation is thrilled to announce the 7th edition of the FIBA Photo Contest – celebrating Basketball For Good on the occasion of the inaugural World Basketball Day…[more]
Apply for Indo-Pacific Media Advancement Program
Deadline: 15 January 2024
Internews invites independent Media Organizations established and operating in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific regions to apply to participate in the Indo-Pacific Media Advancement Program (IPMAP) funded by the US Department of State and implemented by Internews and key partners Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) and Doublethink Lab (DTL)…[more]
Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship
Deadline: 10 February 2024
The Mongabay.org has launched the Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship to provide opportunities for young and aspiring journalists from biodiversity hotspots in tropical countries to report on critical environmental issues, gaining valuable training, experience, and credibility that will help them advance their careers in journalism and communications…[more]
WIN Leadership Accelerator Programme 2024
Deadline: 15 January 2024
The Women in News has launched the Leadership Accelerator Programme, an intensive nine-month long career and leadership programme for journalists and editors working in Africa, the Arab Region and Southeast Asia…[more]
Pulitzer Center AI Reporting Grants (Global South)
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for its reporting initiative focused on AI technologies and their impact on society…[more]
SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary (SEA-DOC) Grant
Deadline: 5 February 2024
The Tan Ean Kiam Foundation-SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary (SEA-DOC) Grant supports the production and post-production of documentaries in Southeast Asia which tell engaging, urgent stories…[more]
Call for Submissions: SGIFF Southeast Asian-Short Film Grant
Deadline: 5 February 2024
The SGIFF Southeast Asian-Short Film (SEA-SHORTS) Grant aims to be a launchpad for the brightest upcoming names in filmmaking from the region…[more]
One-Month Regional Exchange Programme for Journalists from Western Balkans
Deadline: 26 January 2024
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network invites journalists and editors from six Western Balkans countries to take part in its exclusive one-month regional exchange programme during 2024…[more]
Call for Proposals: Reporting Democracy Grants for Journalists
Deadline: 30 January 2024
The Reporting Democracy is inviting journalists from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe to submit proposals for compelling stories that shed light on democracy issues facing the region…[more]
CREA European Co-Development Fund 2024
Deadline: 6 March 2024
The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the European co-development fund to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential…[more]
Financial Investigative Reporting and Mentorship Initiative
Deadline: 15 January 2024
The East-West Center, in partnership with Report for the World, invites independent news organizations across the Pacific Islands to apply for a new initiative supporting local newsrooms committed to public service journalism…[more]
Call for Entries: World Press Photo Contest 2024
Deadline: 11 January 2024
The World Press Photo Foundation is excited to welcome a multiplicity of stories and a diverse range of photographers from all over the world to enter the contest!..[more]
WCF Post-Production Funding Program
Deadline: 28 February 2024
Projects in post-production phase are eligible to apply for funding under the World Cinema Fund (WCF) Africa programme…[more]
Southern African-German Journalists’ Fellowship Programme
Deadline: 1 March 2024
The International Journalists’ Programmes (IJP) offer a bursary to up to six young Southern African and up to five young German journalists…[more]
International AIDS Society’s Media Scholarship Programme
Deadline: 23 January 2024
The International AIDS Society (IAS) Media Scholarship Programme is open to journalists/media specialists/online content creators…[more]
Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother” 2024
Deadline: 30 September 2024
The Merck Foundation is accepting applications for the Africa Media Recognition Awards “More Than a Mother”…[more]
Creative Europe Programme (CREA) Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism Program
Deadline: 14 February 2024
The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the CREA Journalism Partnerships – Pluralism Program to protect news media sectors of special relevance to democracy and civic participation, such as local and regional media, community media, investigative journalism and organisations delivering public interest news…[more]
Creative Europe Programme: Films on the Move Action
Deadline: 14 March 2024
Applications are now open for the Films on the Move Action to encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non national European films…[more]
Creative Europe Programme: European VOD Networks and Operators
Deadline: 9 April 2024
The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the Creative Europe Programme: European VOD Networks and Operators…[more]
Call for Proposals: CREA Networks of European Festivals
Deadline: 11 April 2024
The European Commission is accepting proposals for the Networks of European Festivals, a component of Creative Europe Programme (CREA)…[more]
Nominations open for RNAO Media Awards – Canada
Deadline: 1 March 2024
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is accepting nominations for the Media Awards to honour journalists for their outstanding reporting on nursing and health-care issues…[more]
NASW Peggy Girshman Idea Grants (United States)
Deadline: 12 February 2024
The National Association of Science Writers invites applications from individuals or groups for Idea Grant Program to support projects that will help science writers in their professional lives and benefit the field of science writing…[more]
NZUS Council Media Fellowship Programme (New Zealand)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The NZUS Council has established a Media Fellowship Programme to encourage high-quality reporting that supports informed discussion about the New Zealand/United States relationship…[more]
“Həyata Yol Ver! / Life comes first on the road!” Film Contest in Azerbaijan
Deadline: 11 February 2024
Within an ambitious initiative funded by the European Union Twinning Project ‘Increasing Road Safety in Azerbaijan”, the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Centre for EU Transport Projects from Poland together with project partner, Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration proudly announces a 5-minute film contest for amateurs and professionals aimed at transforming the road safety landscape in Azerbaijan…[more]
Notice of Funding Opportunity: DRL Promoting Free Expression in Angola
Deadline: 23 February 2024
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that support free expression in Angola…[more]
Call for Nominations: Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalism (Germany)
Deadline: 10 January 2024
Nominations are now open for the Axel Springer Prize, one of the most important awards for young journalists in the German-speaking region…[more]
EU Civil Society Facility and Media Programme for Kosovo
Deadline: 6 February 2024
The European Commission has launched the Civil Society and Media programme to improve the working environment of media professionals and journalists, and to promote independent and quality journalism, particularly coming from non-mainstream, local, and non-majority media…[more]
Wilson Center Fellowship Program – Pakistan
Deadline: 1 February 2024
The Wilson Center has launched the Fellowship Program to focus on public policy issues in Pakistan and US-Pakistan relations…[more]
Call for Applications: Excellence in Journalism Award (Guinea)
Deadline: 12 January 2024
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), in partnership with the United States Embassy in Guinea, has opened applications for the first Excellence in Journalism Award to recognize independent journalists who produce the highest quality enterprising reporting and innovative reporting that informs communities and holds public figures accountable…[more]
Women’s Leadership Development Program – Zimbabwe
Deadline: 16 February 2024
The Public Diplomacy (PD) section of the U.S. Embassy Zimbabwe under the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for programs that strengthen women’s leadership skills and potential while also building connections with U.S. women in leadership positions…[more]
AIFIS-Luce Documentary Filmmaker Grants (Indonesia)
Deadline: 29 February 2024
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) invites applications for a new initiative designed to broaden the impact of scholarship on Indonesia and the Indonesian diaspora in the United States by including documentary film as an important media of critical inquiry and knowledge dissemination…[more]
Investintech – CAJ Data Journalism Scholarship (Canada)
Deadline: 12 April 2024
Investintech.com is thrilled to announce the launch of fifth Investintech – CAJ Data Journalism Scholarship…[more]
Open Call for Critic-in-Residence Programme – Slovenia
Deadline: 15 January 2024
The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) Švicarija, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, both based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, invites art historians, art critics and cultural journalists to apply for a fully funded, one-month residency in Ljubljana during October 2024…[more]
Entries open for Hillman Prize 2024 (United States)
Deadline: 30 January 2024
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is accepting entries for the Hillman Prize 2024 to honor journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good…[more]
Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism (Belgium)
Deadline: 25 January 2024
The Pascal Decroos Fund for Investigative Journalism is Journalismfund Europe’s grant programme that strives to advance investigative journalism in Dutch-language media in Belgium…[more]
Call for Entries: VFF Documentary Film Production Award 2024 (Germany)
Deadline: 1 February 2024
The DOK.fest München and VFF Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film und Fernsehproduzenten mbH are pleased to announce the 7th VFF Documentary Film Production Award at the 39th DOK.fest München 2024…[more]
Submissions open for Childnet Film Competition in the UK
Deadline: 22 April 2024
Are you passionate about film? Can you tell a good story, create animation or inspire positive change? Would you like to make a short film about online safety? If yes, then submit your applications for the Childnet Film Competition…[more]