ICFJ Call for Entries: Early Childhood Development Reporting Fellowship Program

Deadline: 6 August 2017

Interested in becoming an influencer and leader for children’s development in your country? If producing high quality reporting and solution-orientated stories about nutrition and early childhood development issues is one of your passions, then apply for Early Childhood Development Reporting Fellowship Program to improve news coverage of child health and form a global network of reporters covering this critically-important issue.

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), in partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, is recruiting for 10 Early Childhood Development Reporting Fellows. This is the second of three groups of fellows that will be recruited over the next two years. The fellowship term for this second cohort will run from October 2017 – October 2018.

During the year-long program, the fellows will receive virtual training, mentoring and financial support to produce regular stories on nutrition and early-childhood development, relevant to their home countries. The program will begin with a virtual orientation (webinar) after which each fellow will be assigned a mentor who will work with them as they produce stories on early childhood development issues. ICFJ will conduct regular webinars during the year of the fellowship.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Fellowship is open to journalists covering issues of child health and development for news outlets based in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania.
• Journalists from all mediums are encouraged to apply: radio, broadcast, print, and online. An ideal candidate will have previous experience covering early childhood development issues, but journalists who currently cover health or nutrition-related topics and are interested in increasing their coverage of children’s issues are welcome to apply.
• Successful applicants must be employed by a news outlet or have a commitment to publish/broadcast from a news outlet to participate.
• Applicants must be proficient in English. Stories submitted may be written in their native language; however, reporting project proposals must be submitted in English.

How to Apply

To become a 2017 Fellow, candidates must complete a Fellowship application. Applicants should include

• A resume or CV
• Examples of stories produced on early-childhood development
• A reporting-project proposal that outlines story ideas the Fellow will pursue and a reporting and publishing/broadcasting plan

Eligible Countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania

For more information, please visit Early Childhood Development Reporting Fellowship.

Webinar covers social media branding, strategy [Worldwide]

Journalists interested in improving their social media brand can attend this webinar.

The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) will host a webinar on social media and online branding at 3 p.m. EDT on Aug. 11.

Participants will learn what drives the most engagement on Facebook and how that content can be adapted to Instagram Stories, in addition to receiving a crash course on branding and social media visuals. 

The instructor is Kristen Lepore, a freelance journalist who works as a digital strategist and podcast consultant.

Registration is ongoing and costs US$10.

For more information, click here.

Thomson Reuters seeks bureau chief [Brazil]

Experienced journalists fluent in Portuguese or Spanish and English can apply for this position.

Thomson Reuters is hiring a bureau chief in São Paulo.

The bureau chief will lead a team of journalists writing in English and Portuguese across three bureaus.

Candidates must be able to balance multiple stories and produce fast, smart coverage of spot news and ambitious enterprise journalism.

For more information, click here.

Contest recognizes reporting on ethnic issues [Russia]

Journalists from Russia's federal, regional and ethnic media can compete in this contest.

The Guild of Ethnic Journalism and the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs recognize the best coverage of interethnic interactions and ethno cultural development among the Russian peoples.

The "SMIrotvorets" contest features several categories, including television, radio, print, internet and more.

Materials must have been published or broadcast between Aug. 1, 2016 and Aug. 1, 2017. Submissions in languages other than Russian should include a Russian translation.

The winner of each category will receive a trophy.

The deadlines vary by regions of Russia from Aug. 15 to Oct. 10.

For more information (in Russian), click here.