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Georgia: “EU Prize for Journalism 2024”

  • The Delegation of the European Union to Georgia

The Delegation of the European Union to Georgia is organizing the EU Prize for Journalism which recognizes the work of journalists who have demonstrated integrity and professionalism in Georgia. Georgian journalists from any media including broadcast, online and print media are eligible.

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Earth Investigations Programme

  • Journalismfund Europe

This grant programme supports activities and services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development to build the capacities of environmental investigative journalists, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeting investigative journalists to upskill their capacities to report on environment related issues.

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Oxford Climate Journalism Network

  • Reuters Institute

The course is designed for reporters from all beats, desks and formats that are interested in improving their coverage of climate change. This course is not only for climate specialists, although they are also welcome to apply. The course aims to broaden the scope of climate change journalism. As a result, journalists, multimedia reporters, photographers and editors from beats such as sports, business and politics are encouraged to apply.

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Scholarships: Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program

  • IJNet

Columbia Journalism School is offering the 2025 Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program. To support the program, the Google News Initiative is sponsoring four scholarships for news leaders to attend. Underrepresented news leaders are eligible for scholarships, that cover tuition as well as travel costs to New York City for the residency weeks.

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Shireen Abu Akleh Prize for Women Journalists

  • International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International Francophone Press Union (UPF) are accepting nominations for the Shireen Abu Akleh Prize, which recognizes the courage and commitment of women journalists. This prize is named in honor of Palestinian journalist and Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed in the Jenin refugee camp while reporting live on May 11, 2022.

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AI Journalism Labs

  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

The AI Journalism Labs were developed by J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, with support from Microsoft, to involve journalists and media professionals in finding ways to navigate and harness generative AI in ethical ways that reinforce trust from communities and increase impact.

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Future Lands: Call for Short Documentary Film Ideas

  • Prague Civil Society Centre

The Prague Civil Society Centre, in cooperation with WATCH DOCS IFF and Current Time TV, is launching a call for story ideas to be developed into short documentary films by young documentary and video makers from Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia. Story ideas should offer reflections and perspectives of societies as they are today and how they could be tomorrow in the context of post-imperialism: the discoveries, re-discoveries, transformations, and imagination of identities of those societies.

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IJ4EU Freelancer Support Scheme

  • Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU)

The Freelancer Support Scheme is designed to support journalists operating outside of newsroom structures who may be underserved by other journalism support schemes and who are willing and able to collaborate with others to launch investigations of importance to audiences at a local, national, regional or European level.

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Independent Belarusian Media Support Programme

  • Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

In the face of unrelenting repression on the civil society in Belarus, which forces representatives of independent media to relocate their activities to the territory of other countries, including Poland, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights announces the launch of the grant competition Independent Belarusian Media Support Programme. The programme is aimed at small, independent Belarusian media projects in exile, which maintain contact with audiences inside Belarus and direct the content they create to them.

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IJ4EU Investigation Support Scheme

  • Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU)

IJ4EU’s Investigation Support Scheme provides financial support to cross-border journalistic teams working on investigations of public interest in Europe. Teams working in countries where investigative journalism is under pressure, including financial and political pressure, are especially encouraged to apply.

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George F. Kennan Fellowship

  • Wilson Center

The Kennan Institute seeks applicants for the George F. Kennan Fellowship from diverse, policy-oriented sectors such as media, business, local government, law, civil society, and academia to examine important political, social, economic, cultural, and historical issues in Russia, Ukraine, and the region.

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Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship

  • National Endowment for Democracy

Named in honor of NED’s principal founders, former president Ronald Reagan and the late congressman Dante Fascell (D-Fl.), the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program is a federally funded, international exchange program that offers democracy activists, journalists, civil society leaders, and scholars from around the world the opportunity to spend five months in residence at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, D.C., in order to undertake independent research on democracy in a particular country or region.

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Boost: Reporting Grants for Journalists

  • International Center for Journalists

ICFJ’s Reporting Grants program is designed to expand ICFJ’s offering to its global network by introducing individual reporting grants for projects that might not fit under existing programs. The first call for applications is focused on climate and climate change. ICFJ is looking for high-quality reporting that explores this topic in the Global South.

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European Cross-Border Grants

  • IJNet

This award-winning European Cross-Border Grant programme  supports cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets who have good ideas for cross-border investigations and for research on European topics. The stories must be relevant to European target groups.

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SOJO EUROPE

  • Journalismfund Europe

This programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.

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Study: “Locking Down the Windows”

  • JX Fund

Over the past year, Russia has done more than simply refine its already deeply repressive system – it is currently in the middle of building a new model of digital censorship, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on top of its already bloated propaganda budgets to ensure its people are fully isolated from independent and objective voices. One of the Kremlin’s most important targets: Russian independent media in exile.

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Russia’s War on the Press

  • Women Press Freedom

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, the Russian regime has targeted journalists on the frontlines with deliberate attacks, leading to numerous deaths and injuries among women reporters. This campaign of terror aims to suppress independent reporting and obscure the realities of the conflict.

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Exiled Russian Book Publishers Defy Kremlin Censors

  • NPR
  • Michele Kelemen

A new generation of Russian writers in exile is reviving Soviet-era tactics to outsmart Putin’s censorship. Through digital publishing, they’re documenting the war in Ukraine and government repression, reaching thousands back home with uncensored stories Russian authorities try to suppress.

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