Grants for Journalists to Investigate Environmental Crimes in Africa
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, working with the Henry Nxumalo Foundation and the Oxpeckers Centre for Investigative Environmental Journalism, is offering grants to journalists to investigate environmental crime in Africa.
The grants are intended to enable and encourage the exposure of environmental crime of any sort and to give journalists the time and resources to do this kind of reporting.
Benefits
Grants will range from $1,000 to $5,000, depending on the scope of the investigation, and the work must be completed within four months.
Eligibility criteria
- Any journalist or team of journalists may apply, and the work may be done in any medium/media.
- The program favor work that is in the public interest, aims to reveal new information, is in-depth and investigative in nature, and uses innovative techniques, approaches or technologies.
- Applications from both experienced and new journalists are encouraged. Mentors for the less experienced may be able to offer.
- Grant decisions are made by a panel of experts and are treated confidentially.
- It will be your responsibility to get the material published/broadcast. Please indicate where you intend to publish/broadcast. An expression of interest from the publisher/broadcaster will assist your application.
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