V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography 2024
Deadline: 4 January 2024
The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography is dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative women artists working in the field of contemporary photography…[more]
Apply for 40th Chicago Latino Film Festival Poster Contest
Deadline: 9 January 2024
The Chicago Latino Film Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary! The Festival has introduced to Chicago audiences the most representative and diverse selection of films from throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and the United States…[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]
Call for Applications: Forest Micro-Scholarships for Citizen Journalists
Deadline: Ongoing
Erasmus+ Worldwide is accepting applications for the Forest Micro-Scholarships to support journalists and citizen journalists attending the upcoming COP28 or one of the official UN side-events, such as COY or Forum on Minority Issues…[more]
Applications open for Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme 2024
Deadline: 22 December 2023
The International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR is pleased to announce the Media Outreach & Inclusion Scheme, open for journalists and media makers from a wide range of backgrounds to attend IFFR in 2024…[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]
Sagarmatha Techfest Storytelling Competition 2023
Deadline: 22 November 2023
Applications are open for the Sagarmatha Techfest Storytelling Competition to unearth captivating stories and encourage people to share their own narratives, with the primary focus being reshaping people’s perspective on storytelling…[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]
The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship offers reporting grants to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics…[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]
Call for Entries: 10th İstanbul Photo Awards
Deadline: 17 January 2024
Entries are now open for the 10th İstanbul Photo Awards, an international news photography contest organized by Anadolu Ajansı, global news agency for more than 100th years…[more]
NIPKOW PROGRAMM for International Film and Media Professionals
Deadline: 9 January 2024
The NIPKOW PROGRAMM is a unique fellowship programme designed for international film and media professionals to develop and refine projects in Berlin through an “à-la-carte” curriculum tailored to meet their individual needs and aspirations…[more]
Apply for ESEB Outreach Initiative Fund
Deadline: 15 March 2024
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) welcomes applications to the ESEB Outreach Initiative Fund for projects that promote evolution-related activities…[more]
Apply for Biopage Storytelling Writing Contest
Deadline: 31 January 2024
Biopage is hosting a Storytelling Writing Contest to remind people the benefits of writing…[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]
WILPF announces International Photography Collaboration
Deadline: 1 January 2024
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the longest standing women’s peace organization in the world, is delighted to announce the launch of its second international photography collaboration as part of its global initiative to mobilise men for feminist peace…[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]
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]
George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop
Deadline: 16 January 2024
Applications are now open for the inaugural George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications…[more]
State of Data Journalism Survey 2023 (3rd Edition)
Deadline: 11 January 2024
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) has launched the survey to get an overview of the state of data journalism in and share the results with you and the community later…[more]
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]
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]
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]
Up to $5,000 available under Sony World Photography Award
Deadline: 5 January 2024
Entries are now being accepted for the Sony World Photography Awards: Open Competition…[more]
Nominations open for Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
Deadline: 15 February 2024
Nominations are now open for the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards to support creative excellence within filmmaking…[more]
Entries open for Xiaomi Imagery Awards 2023
Deadline: 31 December 2023
The Xiaomi Imagery Awards, an annual photography contest hosted by Xiaomi, aim to promote diverse imagery, encouraging shutterbugs and filmmakers to submit videos and pictures that convey your vision, your stories…[more]
Apply for FASPE Journalism Fellowship Program
Deadline: 2 January 2024
Apply now for the FASPE Journalism Fellowship Program, an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership taking place in Berlin, Krakow, and Oswiecim…[more]
COVID-19, Vaccines and Global Health Inequities Reporting Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for enterprise and underreported stories about COVID-19 inequities and other U.S. and global health system failures…[more]
Pulitzer Center’s Machine Learning Reporting Grants
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center encourages proposals that use advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, to solve a data or reporting problem related to a journalistic investigation…[more]
Call for Applications: Our Work/Environment Reporting Grants
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for a new reporting grant focused on climate change and its effects on workers and work…[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]
Applications open for Reza Haghighatnejad Investigative Reporting Fellowship
Deadline: 31 December 2023
Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty´s Persian-language service, is launching the Reza Haghighatnejad Investigative Reporting Fellowship to support investigative reporting about Iran, as well as to develop fact-based and data-driven reporting skills among the next generation of reporters who cover Iran…[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]
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]
“Shining a Light” International Photography Contest
Deadline: 31 December 2023
The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, is honored to announce its tenth annual “Shining a Light” International Photography Contest and subsequent exhibition…[more]
Nominations open for CWA Photo Competition 2024
Deadline: 29 January 2023
Nominations are now open for the Current World Archaeology’s Photo Competition…[more]
International Federation of Journalists’ Safety Fund
Deadline: Ongoing
The International Federation of Journalists has launched the Safety Fund to offer financial assistance in a range of emergency cases such as threats, violence and threats thereof, prosecution, settlement in exile and illness…[more]
Apply for World Story Telling Competition 2023
Deadline: Ongoing
Apply now for the World Story Telling Competition to explore your creativity, practicing the art of storytelling, and getting exposure…[more]
Applications open for FASPE Journalism Program
Deadline: 2 January 2024
Applications are now open for the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) Journalism Program, an intensive two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership…[more]
Call for Submissions: Health for All Film Festival (HAFF)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting public health institutions from around the world, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), communities, activists and students in public health, film schools, and other relevant domains to submit their original short films championing a health issue…[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]
Culture Hack Labs’ Rhizome Fellowship Program
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Culture Hack Labs’ Rhizome Fellowship Program is for narrative change practitioners focused on the transition to a post anthropocentric world…[more]
Call for Applications: Polio Press Fellowship for Individual Reporting
Deadline: 1 January 2024
The United Nations Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2024 Polio Press Fellowship for Individual Reporting…[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]
William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books
Deadline: 15 March 2024
The Polar Libraries Colloquy is accepting entries for the William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books…[more]
Apply for Xpozer Photo Contest ‘Minimalistic’ 2024
Deadline: 31 December 2023
Apply now for the Xpozer Photo Contest ‘Minimalistic’…[more]