Deadline: 10-Oct-21
The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) has launched Coverage of Trafficking and Migration to offer journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of this topic and to examine the impact at the social, economic, and policy level, to produce coverage that is accurate, informative, and compelling to their audiences.
TRF’s world-class trainers, who are experienced international and regional journalists, will facilitate the online interactive sessions and invite a variety of experts on the law, policymakers, and anti-trafficking advocates to explain the scale and causes of debt bondage, forced labour and global standards and instruments seeking to combat the problem.
Participants will learn how to enrich their reports by using digital storytelling techniques as well as applying a Solutions Journalism approach that focuses on critical reporting of the initiatives to counter labour exploitation, to increase audience engagement.
Participants will also review the ethics and the risks of reporting trafficking, from interacting sensitively with traumatised survivors to highlighting labour issues in big-business supply chains or reporting on organised crime.
Workshop Format
- A series of live, interactive sessions will be conducted over Zoom and take place over five half-days during the weeks of 18 and 26 October to allow busy journalists to juggle the learning with their reporting duties. Each of live session will last four hours in the morning with a mix of online and offline activities and breaks.
- Participants should be able to commit to four hours for each live session plus 1-2 hours of offline reading or assignments done in their own time on those days or between sessions.
- The training will be run in English. Fluency in English is required.
- Participants are also strongly encouraged to come with a story idea they can develop throughout the training.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be full-time journalists or regular contributors to media organisations in India.
- The course will be run in English.
- Applicants must have a minimum of three years’ professional experience.
- Applicants must have access to a minimum internet speed of 8Mb/second.
- Applicants need access to a computer to participate in the training; participation from a mobile or smart phone will not be possible.
Submissions
When applying you will be asked to upload the following documents – please have these ready:
- Two relevant work samples (maximum file size 5 MB) – in English if possible. For stories not in English, please include a 250-word English summary about the story.
- A letter from your editor consenting to your participation in the programme and committing to publish/broadcast resulting stories.
Note: you will be asked to submit one or more story ideas within your application. They will not share your ideas with anyone.
For more information, visit https://www.trust.org/media-development/opportunities/?sfid=a053z00000uqk4mAAA&sfProgId=a15D0000018xNIaIAM&areaOfFocus=Equality%20and%20Tolerance