Deadline: 31 May 2019
Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking applications for its program entitled “Reporting Land Rights”.
This program, which is a collaboration between the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, will assist Indian journalists in understanding property rights and incorporating it in their reporting, whether they cover business and industry, the environment, urban revitalization, indigenous rights, food security, or a range of other topics.
The program will involve a four-day workshop in New Delhi, India from August 6-9, 2019. They will also offer modest funding to journalists with outstanding story ideas on property rights, as well as editorial support to help them realize these ideas, drawing on the Reuters principles of accuracy, integrity, and freedom from bias.
The four-day workshop will feature content on understanding property rights, paricularly in an Indian context; journalism skills and research techniques; approaches to building sources in this field; and talks from guest experts.
Funding
They will cover all transport, lodging and subsistence costs for journalists from outside Delhi.
Eligibility Criteria
- Journalists working for domestic media anywhere in India are eligible.
- Journalists working in any medium may apply—print, radio, TV, online.
- Journalists must be fluent in English.
- Journalists must have a minimum of one year’s experience. They should either be working full-time for a media organization, or a freelancer whose main work is journalism.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: India
For more information, please visit https://tmsnrt.rs/2D3KIou