Deadline: 20 March 2020
Are you a young media professional eager to gain skills, boost your career, test your ideas, and expand your network? If yes, then apply now for the “Stars4Media Exchange and Training Programme”.
Stars4Media is an exchange and training programme for young media professionals (“rising stars”) between cooperating media organisations, to accelerate media innovation and cross-border coverage in Europe.
Stars4Media will encourage innovation through skill-building activities between paired media organisations to test ideas, produce contents and develop initiatives around 4 strategic themes.
This project is an exchange programme between professionals from media outlets across Europe. The project is designed to enhance their professional skills and abilities in order to accelerate media innovation and develop sustainable business models for legacy media.
This pilot project call is structured around 2 waves divided in main topics:
- Wave A – TRUST in media
- Constructive journalism;
- Fact-checking;
- your own topic.
- Wave B – DATA for media:
- Data-journalism;
- Artificial Intelligence / Language technologies;
- your own topic.
As a young media professional you will:
- work with another European media than your own for 4 to 12 weeks
- gain practical skills on quality reporting, data journalism, fact-checking, AI and translation technologies, marketing, and social media
- be part of a network of 100 young media professionals in Europe
Eligibility Criteria
Participants of this project will be young working media professionals (“rising stars”) with 2-10 years of media experience, coming from different backgrounds (journalists, graphic designers, tech developers, marketing and social media managers), willing to join another European media for 4 to 12 weeks (physical and virtual mobility).
For more information, visit https://europeanjournalists.org/blog/2020/02/07/call-for-initiatives-stars4media-exchange-and-training-programme-for-young-media-professionals/