Grant From Mongabay to Support Projects in Environmental Crisis for Journalists

Mongabay is seeking pitches for investigative reporting projects that go beyond the daily news headlines to uncover wrongdoing at the intersection of global trade and environmental crisis. As the products that most people use and consume every day (food, clothing, shelter, transportation, communication) leave an ecological trail across global supply chains. There is a critical need for greater transparency, particularly within transnational natural resource industries such as agribusiness and extractives, as a lack of access to accurate and information hinders action to address increasing levels of environmental stress and social injustice.

Eligibility:

• Proposals from experienced journalists and small cross-border teams of journalists and researchers with story-specific expertise for reported articles, or for investigative series, focusing on a particular region, commodity, company, or theme within the remit of the reporting project. 
• Strong pitches involving creative uses of multimedia, open-source intelligence, video and/or data analysis and visualization will be given priority.
• Consider proposals for fully edited and produced videos of up to 10 minutes in length. 
• Opinion pieces and conventional news reporting will not be considered.
• Completed stories will be published in English on Mongabay.com under an open Creative Commons license that allows for sharing and re-posting. 
• They could potentially be translated into another language and published by Mongabay.

Benefits:

Mongabay will negotiate all fees and contracts on a per-project basis

Required Documents:

• Applicants must submit a pitch That includes:

1. Several potential stories published writing samples.
2. Ideas on third-party media outlets that might accept stories that would result from the project.
3. Pitches should be detailed, thoughtful, and about 500 words in length.
4. Your pitch should clearly explain the specific subject you would like to write about, your approach to covering it.
5. And describe a few potential sources.

• Your resume.
• Three clips.
• An itemized budget estimate of any travel expenses needed to complete the project.

About:

Mongabay is a web site that publishes news on environmental science, energy, and green design, and features extensive information on tropical rainforests, also deforestation statistics for countries of the world. It was founded in 1999 in order to increase interest in and appreciation of wildlands and wildlife while examining the impact of emerging local and global trends in technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development. Mongabay has opened bureaus in Indonesia, Latin America, and India, reporting daily in Indonesian, Spanish, and English respectively.

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