International Center for Journalist: Illuminating Today’s Japan for American Audiences Program

Deadline: 31 July 2017
Image result for ICFJInternational Center for Journalist (ICFJ) is seeking applications for its program entitled ” Illuminating Today’s Japan for American Audiences” that is funded by the Sasakawa Foundation. The program will help to make independent coverage of neglected issues possible.The participating journalist will work with an experienced Japanese interpreter and fixer, and are expected to dig into the economic, social, cultural, environmental and energy-policy challenges facing the country. Former participants have produced stories for media outlets including McClatchy, NPR, Al Jazeera America and more.
Topics
  • Increase media coverage of key issues in the US-Japan alliance
  • Educate members of the media on important issues in Japan and their connection to the U.S.
  • Bridge the gap between local U.S. cities/industries and Japan
Program Phases
  1. Program Orientation: Late August/early September 2017
    • Before the selected journalist travels to Japan to begin reporting, ICFJ program staff, the participant and the Japanese fixer and interpreter will convene in a series of web conferences using Google Hangout. These opportunities will acquaint the journalist with one another and the Japanese interpreter-fixer who will assist him/her during his/her 19-day reporting tour.
  2. Individual Travel and Tour: mid-September – December 2017
    • After the orientation program, the journalist will depart for his/her 19-day reporting tour accompanied by an experienced Japanese reporter and journalist. The participant will work with the Japanese expert to organize necessary meetings and plan travel around Japan.
  3. Return and completion of reporting: December 2017 – March 2018
    • After the American journalist returns home, s/he will complete his/her story for publication or broadcast. ICFJ will use its own website to promote the stories The journalist is expected to publicize his/her story via social media and professional connections.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Journalists from all types of news media are eligible for this program.
  • Applicants must have a guarantee that at least one report or article will be broadcasted/published by U.S. media.
  • The participant will be selected based on the quality of story idea, as the story should have immediate relevance to the journalist’s own community. Examples of issues that journalists could explore include business, trade, energy, culture, immigration and climate change. Other key considerations include the journalists’ professional qualifications, level of experience and their media organization’s audience.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries: United States
For more information, please visit ICFJ.
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Rosenberg Fund for Children Grant: Providing Educational and Emotional Needs to Children in US

Deadline: 13 October 2017
Image result for Rosenberg FundThe Rosenberg Fund for Children is inviting applications for its Grant which provides educational and emotional needs to children (up to age 24) of targeted progressive activists, and youth (up to age 24) who are targeted activists themselves.
The RFC funds institutions and individual providers who support the values. Subject to their financial ability, the RFC will fund such things as: counseling; school tuition; camp tuition; cultural lessons; after-school programs; prison visits; educational or therapeutic travel; and post high-school books and supplies for college or other educational training.

Eligibility Criteria
ü  Applications may be submitted by parents, custodians, and guardians to benefit children (under age 18) in the United States whose parents’ pursuit of progressive values has left them unable to fully provide for that child as a result of being targeted as outlined above.
ü  The young adult children (ages 18-24) of targeted activists may submit applications on their own behalf.
ü  Applications may also be submitted by or on behalf of targeted activist youth (under age 25) whose targeting has resulted in a significant adverse life impact.
ü  Although RFC usually receive applications from parents on behalf of their children, in special cases (for instance when anonymity is required for personal safety) they accept applications directly from a program or provider on behalf of a group of young people who meet their granting guidelines.
How to Apply
Eligible applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Countries: United States
For more information, please visit Rosenberg Fund for Children


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The Listening Post Collective to lead local newsrooms into a new form of engagement

Sam Berkhead | 
It all started in New Orleans, with the hope of better connecting to a city still reeling from the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina.
Back then, in 2013, Jesse Hardman founded The Listening Post as a way to reach people living in neighborhoods that had been largely overlooked by post-Katrina aid and development.
Partnering with local public radio affiliate WWNO, The Listening Post started sending residents in certain New Orleans neighborhoods questions about local news via their cellphones. People were able to share their thoughts by calling or texting back, allowing the local radio station to use these responses for story ideas. As Hardman has explained, the goal is to create a feedback loop so that local media is better able to listen to the community it serves. 
“I had been looking at how you expand the conversation to communities that might not be getting information to participate in life in the city,” Hardman told IJNet last year. “Cellphones are ubiquitous, even more so than someone using a laptop, and it seemed like an underutilized way to share information and find out what’s important to them.”
Four years later, The Listening Post, a project of Internews, has expanded to New Jersey, Baltimore, Omaha, Oakland, Georgia and Minneapolis. It is now launching The Listening Post Collective, a site that offers free tools, tip sheets and guidelines for newsrooms hoping to replicate its model.
The site includes a "playbook," a step-by-step guide on how journalists can better connect with communities that typically don't attract in-depth media coverage. From choosing a neighborhood to actually creating content, the playbook offers detailed tips for how journalists can produce stories that don't rehash familiar narratives about poverty, gun violence or other issues that might concern residents. It's the same playbook that The Listening Post uses to scale its approach whenever it launches in a new city, and can be applied to nearly any editorial project.
The Listening Post Collective also features a toolbox that includes an engagement activities guide, a guide to crafting thoughtful interview questions and more. Elsewhere, newsrooms looking to share findings and ask questions with fellow Listening Post adopters can make use of the site's discussion board.
To get customized guidance on building your own Listening Post, email a paragraph about yourself, your work and what kind of Listening Post project you have or would like to build to Listeningpostcollective@internews.org.
Main image CC-licensed by Flickr via tie the ribbons
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