New European Journalism Centre Grant for Innovative Development Reporting

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The European Journalism Centre (EJC), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is implementing a new 2013 grants program for innovative development reporting.

The grant aims to advance creative reporting approaches to enable better coverage of international development issues in eight of the European countries with the highest net official development assistance.

The grant will be awarded to a selection of innovative reporting projects to enable journalists, editors and development stakeholders to perform thorough research and to develop entirely new and experimental reporting and presentation methods. They will also be able to use multi-platform approaches and to think laterally across disciplines and techniques of journalistic storytelling.

Application Details

The program is looking for proposals from eminent media outlets focusing on the eight European countries with the highest development spending—France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Applicants must apply for a minimum grant of €8,000 with an expected average grant of about €20,000. A maximum of 25 to 30 grants will be made available in 2013.

Interested parties may apply for full or partial grants, excluding salaries of permanent staff.

The deadline to apply is March 25, 2013.

Learn more at www.journalismgrants.org.

About Journalism Grants

The Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme (IDR) is a media-funding project operated by the European Journalism Centre (EJC). The grant programme aims to advance creative reporting approaches, thus enabling a better coverage of international development issues. The grant intends to raise awareness about these issues by having a strong impact on media audiences in eight of the European countries with the highest net official development assistance: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Innovative reporting projects will be awarded considerable funding, with an aim to support journalists, editors, and development stakeholders to perform thorough research and to develop new, exciting, and even experimental reporting, employing state of the art presentation methods and techniques of journalistic storytelling.

At a time when many media organisations face financial constraints, the grant programme aims to better enable media houses to go beyond their usual reporting approaches and thus set a new and distinctive agenda for development coverage.

Learn more at www.journalismgrants.org.