United Nations Correspondents Association accepting entries on climate change [Worldwide]

Journalists worldwide who cover the United Nations, including its agencies and field operations, are eligible for awards.

The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) is accepting written and electronic works for a U.N. coverage contest that consists of three prizes: print (and online), broadcast and climate change.

Works must have been published or aired between September 2017 and August 2018.

Entries can be submitted in any of the official U.N. languages (English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish and Russian). Entries in other languages must be accompanied by a translation in English or French.

The prizes amount to over US$60,000 that will be distributed among the winners. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres will present the prizes at the awards ceremony in December in New York.

The contest deadline is Sept. 15.

For more information, click here.

NPK offers workshop on food, agriculture [US]

Journalists interested in agriculture reporting can apply for this training.

The National Press Foundation (NPF) is organizing the workshop "What’s next in food and agriculture" Sept. 23 to 26 in Kansas City. This training aims to recharge journalists' reporting on one of today’s most critical issues. 

Participants will learn the ways food is grown, marketed, sold and wasted. Other topics include labeling, growing methods, GMOs, pesticide and herbicide use as well as organic farming. 

NPF will cover travel, lodging and most meals during the four-day program. 

The deadline to apply is July 30.

For more information on how to register, click here.

Escuela Nacional Sindical – Colombia organizes documentary photography competition [Latin America]

Professional and amateur photographers living in Latin America can enter this contest.

Escuela Nacional Sindical – Colombia organizes the Latin American Documentary Photography Contest, which focused on the human factor of labor.

The contest has five categories: children workers, women workers, working men, migrant workers, and domestic work and labor economics. There is also a special category for Colombia on rural work.

Winners will receive US$1,000. The winner of the Colombian category will receive US$2,000.

Contestants can submit up to five images.

The deadline is Aug. 31.

For more information on how to enter (in Spanish), click here.

Scholarship for Photojournalism available [Worldwide]

Photographers under age 24 and those enrolled as full-time photography students can apply for the scholarship.

The Ian Parry Scholarship aims to help young documentary photographers undertake a chosen project and raise their international profile.

This year's contest features two prizes: the Award for Achievement and the Award for Potential. Each winner will receive GBP3,500 (US$4,568), Canon photo equipment and more. 

World Press Photo automatically nominates the Achievement winner for its Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. The Potential winner will receive one year of mentorship from a veteran photojournalist.

There is no entry fee. The deadline to apply is July 28.

For more information on how to enter, click here.

Training program focuses on journalism [Brazil]

Recent college graduates and graduate students with advanced English skills can apply for this traineeship.

The Globo Network, Brazil's largest broadcasting organization. The 18-month training will be held in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Trainee Globo program offers professional experience in content production at

The areas of expertise are journalism, entertainment, commercial, TV programming and technology.

Candidates must have graduated between July 2016 and July 2018 or be a current graduate student.

The selection process includes online tests, in-person dynamics and presentations.

The deadline is July 15.

For more information on how to apply (in Portuguese), click here.

Tech in Media 2018 contest accepting entries [Russia]

Russian journalists and media outlets can compete in this contest.

The Russian Venture Company organizes the

Tech in Media 2018 contest for innovative journalism. The contest aims to encourage better media coverage of innovations in Russia.

The contest has four themes: life science, hydrogen energy,  philanthropy and technology, and venture business. There will be four categories in each theme: federal print media, regional print media, online media and broadcast media.

Winners in each category will receive RUB100,000, RUB30,000 and RUB10,000 for first, second and third prizes, respectively.

The deadline is Sept. 18.

For more information on how to apply (in Russian), click here.

Bloomberg seeks oil markets reporter [MENA]

Experienced financial and business journalists can apply for a position in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Bloomberg is looking for an oil markets reporter to join its energy team and report on a range of energy stories in the Middle East.

Responsibilities include editing breaking news and covering oil trading stories, often working under time pressure.

Applicants must have three years of experience. Fluency in written and spoken English is essential; Arabic or Farsi skills are an advantage.

For more information on how to apply, click here.

Registration for Massive Open Online Course on data journalism ongoing [Worldwide]

Journalists and others interested in harnessing data for stories can participate in this five-week course.

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, through its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), is offering the free course “Intro to R for journalists: how to find great stories in data"  July 23 to Aug. 26.

Participants will how to learn import different types of data into R;

wrangle, clean, join and analyze data; create exploratory and publishable visualizations; make static and interactive maps with geolocated data and Census data; and join the reproducible research movement and publish their methodology.

The instructor is Andrew Ba Tran, investigative data reporter at The Washington Post.

The course is accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

Registration is ongoing. 

For more information on how to register, click here.

Registration for investigative journalism summer school ongoing [Balkans]

Journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia with at least three years of experience in journalism are eligible for a scholarship to attend this training. 

The BIRN Summer School of Investigative Reporting is organizing a course in investigative journalism for experienced journalists Aug. 19 to 25 in Poiana Brasov, Romania.

The course will feature sessions on where and how to dig for data, how to make people to talk to you, how to best present a story – and how to use video in journalism. Participants will work on story ideas and be able to obtain funds for their investigations, raning from EUR1,000 to EUR3,000.

Journalists from non-Balkan countries can also enroll in the training. The cost is EUR750, which includes tuition, meals and accomodations. 

The scholarship deadline is July 15.

For more information on how to apply, click here.

Photo awards seeks submissions [East Africa]

Visual storytellers in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda can compete for an award.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Association of Uganda (FCAU), in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Canon Central and North Africa, is seeking entries for the East African Photography Award. 

The contest accepts published and unpublished photographs. Images must have been taken between Aug. 1, 2016 and Aug. 1, 2018.

The overall winner will receive a a Canon 80D with an EF 18-135mm lens and her or his work will be exhibited in Kampala in October. There will be prizes for the runners-up.

The deadline for submissions is Aug. 1.

For more information on how to enter, click here.