Deadline: 13-Dec-22
CFI is launching a call for candidates to support media outlets and/or blogs based in The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania and Niger to reinforce and improve their coverage of migration issues, as well as mentor and support subsequent content production as part of the project Dialogues on Migration.
Aims
- Dialogues on Migration is a project funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. First implemented by CFI in 2021, it has been scheduled to run until end 2023. Dialogues on Migration’s general aim is to promote responsible discourse on migration, firstly by developing training initiatives accompanied by production support for media outlets (journalists and bloggers) and schools of journalism, and, secondly by facilitating the sharing of viewpoints and experience with all stakeholders in migration themes.
- This Call for candidates aims to select 10 media outlets for each partner country operating in The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania and Niger, to reinforce and improve their coverage of migration issues.
Project Beneficiaries
- Journalists, influencers
- Journalism students, researchers
- Online media managers
- Civil society stakeholders, experts involved in these fields (associations, research centres, non-governmental organisations, etc.).
Eligible Countries: The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger.
Who does this Call for candidates apply to?
- Media outlets with a large audience in The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania and NigerThe following media outlets are eligible:
- radio stations and TV channels
- printed press
- online media outlets (on Internet: blogs or social media)
- Applicant media outlets must fulfil the following conditions:
- Be based anywhere in The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania or Niger. CFI will be covering transport expenses to reach the city in which the training course is held.
- Have an independent editorial line.
- The media outlet newsroom must have at least three (3) journalists and/or bloggers on their permanent staff.
- The media outlet must have been operating for at least three (3) years.
- Online media outlets (e.g. blogs) must belong to a bloggers’ or press association.
- The media outlet must show that they are willing to produce and broadcast content on migration issues on a regular basis and over time.
- The media outlet must have a nationwide audience and/or have regional correspondents, or be well-established in one of these regions.
- The media outlet must commit to designating two journalists or bloggers to participate in the training programme for the entire duration of the project.
- The editorial manager (chief editor, producer or programme director) of the media outlets and/or blogs selected must make themselves available for the session to present production by the pairs of journalists and/or bloggers selected.
- Profile of the two journalists and/or bloggers designated by the applicant media outlets
- Must have already produced content on migration.
- At least one of the two journalists and/or bloggers must have already performed fact-checking, or at the very least, been trained in fact–checking.
- Where possible, the applicant media outlets shall put forward pairs of journalists and/or bloggers with complementary skills. For example, a journalist and/or blogger dealing with general-interest subjects and a journalist and/or blogger with a more specialised profile (fact-checking, data journalism, graphics, mapping, community manager etc.).
- The participation of female journalists and/or bloggers is strongly encouraged.
For more information, visit https://ac.cfi.fr/en/appels/dialogues-migrations-en/