Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute hosts reporting award [Worldwide]

Journalists working on an underreported project in the public interest can apply for funding.

The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University (NYU) invites applications for its reporting award. The award supports research and reporting for a significant work of journalism on any medium.

One or several winners will receive up to US$12,500, NYU ID and full online and onsite NYU Bobst Library research and reference privileges, as well as an office at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, space allowing.

International journalists are welcome to apply, but the resulting work must be in English and must be accepted for publication by a reputable media outlet with a wide circulation.

The application deadline is Jan. 31, 2018.

For more information, click here.

Scripps Foundation organizes journalism competition [US]

Journalists working for U.S. media outlets can apply for the Scripps Howard Awards.

The Scripps Howard Foundation recognizes journalistic works from print, broadcast or online media published in 2017.

Cash prizes total US$170,000, across 16 categories, including the new Impact Award for the best work among the winners.

The "Topic of the Year" category will be “Divided America” and will focus on the polarization of the United States over issues such as immigration, Confederate monuments, freedom of speech, gun rights and demonstrations at sporting events.

The deadline is Feb. 2, 2018.

For more information, click here.

Brazilian Journalism conference calls for papers [Brazil]

Journalism professors and students will gather at the 17th National Meeting of Journalism Teachers April 18 to 20, 2018 in Palmas, Tocantins.

Organized by the Brazilian Association of Teaching Journalism (Abej/FNPJ, in Portuguese), this year's conference will focus on "The teaching of journalism in times of crisis: curricular guidelines, convergent platforms and public interest challenges."

The program includes the 13th Cycle of Journalism Research in Teaching and Extension, which invites works on extension activities; teaching ethics and journalism theories; graduate research; laboratory production/electronics; laboratory production/print media; and pedagogical projects and teaching methodologies.

The deadline for submissions is Feb. 4, 2018.

For more information (in Portuguese), click here.

UNESCO: World Press Freedom Prize seeks nominations [Worldwide]

Journalists, organizations or institutions that promote press freedom worldwide can be nominated for a US$25,000 award.

The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize will recognize a significant contribution to press freedom, especially in high-risk areas.

Member states, international/regional organizations or professional/nongovernmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression can nominate up to three candidates.

The recipient will be recognized during the World Press Freedom Day ceremony to be held May 3.

Nominations must be submitted in English or French and include a brief biography or history of the nominee.

The deadline is Feb. 15, 2018.

For more information, click here.

University offers fellowship in public service journalism [US]

Journalists with five years of experience can apply for this fellowship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Marquette University, in partnership with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is accepting candidates for the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism.

Fellows spend nine months researching, reporting and writing stories with potential to change policies and improve lives.  

The fellowship provides a US$65,000 stipend, health insurance, benefits, residency, moving, technology and project travel allowances, and tuition remission. 

The deadline is Jan. 26, 2018.

For more information, click here.

Competition focuses on economic reporting [Latin America]

Latin American journalists whose works are published or broadcast in Spanish or Portuguese can compete for an award.

The Ibero-American Economic Journalism Award, organized by IE Business School, calls for entries.

The award will recognize the best works about economic culture and society. In this edition, special attention will be given to stories about innovation and development.

Works must have been published or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2017.

The first prizes in daily press and non-daily press will receive US$4,000 each. There will also be a prize for regional media.

The deadline is Jan. 30, 2018.

For more information (in Spanish and Portuguese), click here.

COMESA Media Awards seeks entries [Africa]

Journalists who covered regional integration projects in Africa can enter this competition.

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) organizes the

COMESA Media Awards in four categories: print journalism, radio journalism, television journalism and online/new media.

Possible topics include trade, infrastructure (energy, transport, ICT), investments, gender issues and others, involving more than one COMESA member state or a national project that has a regional dimension.

Works must have been published or broadcast in 2017 in Arabic, English or French. Journalists must be nationals of COMESA member states.

The winners will receive sponsorship to the COMESA Heads of State Summit, a monetary prize, a trophy and a certificate.

The deadline is Jan. 31, 2018.

For more information, click here.

ICFJ hosts webinar on how to make facts go viral [Worldwide]

Anyone interested in making facts spread wider than falsehoods can attend this online seminar.

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will host a webinar at 10:00 a.m. EST on Dec. 7 on how to use creative storytelling techniques for fact-checking.

Participants will hear from experts with experience in debunking false claims in compelling ways: 

Giovanni Zagni from Italy's Pagella Politica will discuss his organization's creative use of video to share its findings. Their short, fun videos won them the top prize in the recent ICFJ TruthBuzz viral fact-checking challenge.

ICFJ Knight Fellow Catherine Gicheru from PesaCheck will discuss how her organization uses social media and other channels to spread the facts they uncover about government and society. PesaCheck is Kenya's first fact-checking initiative, and now covers stories across East Africa in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

ICFJ Director of Innovation Oren Levine will lead the discussion and take your questions and comments.

The live webinar will be broadcast on Zoom at 10:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 7. Register here to watch the webinar on Zoom. The webinar will also be streamed via Facebook Live on the IJNet Facebook page here.

Youth Project offers training [UK]

Aspiring TV professionals ages 18 to 25 can apply for this free program in Isleworth.

Mama Youth Project is recruiting candidates for its What’s Up TV training. Trainees work in a team to produce six half-hour episodes of a magazine TV show.

The program consists of 14 weeks of intensive hands-on training with six months of follow-up career support. The training is full time, including working some weekends, from March 19 to June 22, 2018.  

The first four weeks is unpaid; the following 10 weeks are employed training paid at the U.K.'s National Minimum Wage.

The deadline is Jan. 28, 2018.

For more information, click here.

Miroslava Breach prize seeks entries [Latin America]

Media professionals, researchers and activists living in Latin America and connected to one of the member centers of the CLACSO Network are eligible.

The Miroslava Breach Prize "Systems of power and violence against journalists in Latin America" is an initiative of Argumentos magazine, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the School of Culture and Communication at UMET.

The award honors Mexican journalist Miroslava Breach, murdered on March 23, 2017 in Chihuahua and, with her, the hundreds of journalists and social communicators who lost their lives in Latin America while doing their work. It also aims to be a wake-up call to the impunity that prevails in a region where crimes against journalists are rarely investigated.

Participants may submit individual or collective texts about journalism, violence and impunity; forms of aggression against citizens' communication and information rights; economic and political interests of the media over social interest and the common good; and violence and the teaching of communication.

Winning entries will be published by Revista Argumentos and newspapers La Jornada (Mexico) or Página 12 (Argentina), in printed and digital format and open access.

The deadline is Dec. 27.

For more information (in Spanish), click here.

ACSS accepting applications [MENA]

Journalism and communication students in the Arab region can apply for grants.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is accepting proposals for its Research Grants Program on the themes of youth and urban spatial inequalities.

Small grants of US$4,000 on average will be available to individual Arab researchers and activists residing in the Arab region and whose work focuses on Arab societies.

Applicants must hold at least a master’s degree. Preference will be given to applicants under the age of 40.

The deadline is Dec. 31.

For more information, click here.

NYU offers journalism fellowship [Worldwide]

Journalists with at least two years of experience and fluency in English and at least one other language can apply for a fellowship in New York.

The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University (NYU) is seeking applications for the World Journalist Fellowship.

The fellowship provides international journalists with two semesters of funding to study at one of the master’s programs at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, as well as a US$13,000 stipend.

Fellows can choose one of nine concentrations: business and economic reporting; cultural reporting and criticism; global and joint program studies; literary reportage; magazine writing; news and documentary; reporting the nation and New York; science, health and environmental reporting; and Studio 20.

Candidates must also complete the application for the graduate program of their choice. The GRE and TOEFL are required tests for admission to NYU. Applicants have until Jan. 24, 2018 to submit their scores.

The deadline is Jan. 4, 2018.

For more information, click here.

IberCultura Viva program seeks videos on Afro-descendant communities [Latin America, Spain]

Anyone residing in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay can enter this contest.

The IberCultura Viva program and the Uniited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) representation in Brazil organize the short film competition "Afro-descendant communities: recognition, justice and development."

Videos can belong to any audiovisual genre (documentary, fiction, animation, news, etc) and should last 1 to 3 minutes.

Ten videos will receive US$500 cash prizes.

The deadline is Feb. 15, 2018.

For more information (in Portuguese), click here.

Journalism competition focuses on nature [Russia]

Russian journalists and bloggers can enter a contest.

Komsomolskaya Pravda and Transneft are hosting the all-Russian contest "Window to nature."

Submissions must be related to the theme of Russian nature and must be published between Nov. 16, 2016 and Oct. 31, 2017. Each article and blog post must contain at least two photos.

Winners will receive RUB100,000, RUB50,000 and RUB30,000 for first, second and third prizes, respectively.

The deadline is Dec. 31.

For more information (in Russian), click here.