Deadline: 20-Mar-23
Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the African Centre for Media Excellence is looking for Ugandan journalists who are motivated to understand how their country could be losing money via illicit means.
Benefits of the Scheme
- If selected, you will take part in two intensive workshops covering illicit finance, reporting on companies, accounts and budgets, and investigative techniques. The workshops will take place in Kampala.
- You will propose one or more story ideas that you wish to work on within the scheme – if you are selected, the foundation will provide experienced journalists to help you pursue your stories right up to publication/broadcast.
- Selected participants will receive modest funding to help them realize their stories.
- You will have exclusive access to expertise through the network of illicit finance experts.
- You will also have access to story ideas and editorial advice and will be invited to share your own expertise with other participants.
Eligibility Criteria
- Journalists who have not taken part in Wealth of Nations before.
- Journalists with at least two years of professional experience.
- It is an advantage if you are familiar with investigative journalism, reporting on finances and/or dealing with numbers more generally, but if you have a strong motivation to learn about and understand these issues then the foundation will consider your application.
- You must be able to spend significant time working on illicit finance stories.
- Both freelancers and staff journalists may apply. Journalists working for a news organisation will need consent from their editor to take part. Freelancers should provide evidence that one or more media organisations will be willing to take their work.
- Journalists working in any medium or multiple media are welcome to apply (print, online, radio or television).
- Journalists should be based in Uganda and working for one or more Ugandan media organisations.
- Journalists applying must have fluent English.
Submissions
- Two work samples. TV/Radio journalists can send in their scripts and a brief summary.
- If relevant work samples are in local language, please provide an English translation (if work sample is online, please share link so that foundation the web page can be translated).
- A letter from your editor consenting to your participation and confirming that they will publish any story produced through the programme
- For example, the letter should say “I confirm that we will publish any story produced through the programme”.
- If the letter from your editor does not explicitly state this, they will not be able to consider your application.
For more information, visit Thomson Reuters Foundation.