Category: Journalism

First Opportunity

• Agency: McGraw Center for Business Journalism
• Funding Opportunity Title: McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
• Key words: investigative journalism, business, finance, economics
• Link to RFP:  https://www.mcgrawcenter.org/the-harold-w-mcgraw-jr-business-journalism-fellowships/
• Deadline: 10/06/24 for Fall Fellowships 03/31/25 for Spring Fellowships
• Funding available: maximum of $15,000
• Period of performance: not specified
• Program Objective: The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Center for Business Journalism provides experienced journalists with grants up to $15,000 and the editorial support needed to produce deeply reported enterprise and investigative stories that delve into critical economic, financial or business issues across a wide array of subjects. You don’t need to be a business reporter to apply; many of our previous Fellows have been generalists, or cover beats such as health care, education or the environment. Others have focused on issues such as economic inequality or corporate accountability
• NOTE:
  • Open to anyone with at least five years professional experience
  • No budget is required at time of application

International

First Opportunity

• Sponsor: Department of State U.S. Embassy Bangkok
• Funding Opportunity Title: Bolstering Accurate, Impactful Reporting in Thailand
• Key words: Thailand, reporting, misinformation
• Link to RFP:  https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355788
• Agency Deadline: 09/02/24
• Funding available: awards may range from minimum of $25,000 up to $100,000 with total available funding of $125,000
• Period of performance: 6-12 months beginning 9/24
• Program background: The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, of the U.S. Department of State, announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to enhance journalists’ reporting skills and ethical standards, support accurate reporting fieldwork, and strengthen media institutions’ ability to promote accurate reporting and to counter misinformation.
• Program Objectives: The grantee will work with Thai media members and/or media organizations, a majority of which should represent media markets outside of the Bangkok metro area, to improve media literacy and professionalism through workshops, reporting tours, research trips, and other events to highlight issues that matter but might be underreported due to limited newsroom resources.  Specifically, participants will gain the ability to better analyze social media and other information streams and develop compelling story ideas and report on issues that matter or reflect marginalized voices that do not receive sufficient attention due to the budget constraints.  The grantee will also strengthen understanding of journalists’ civic responsibilities to foster broad discussion on issues of public importance, to probe beyond conventional narratives, and to abide by strong ethical standards with respect to truth and fairness, building resilience against attempts to coopt or skew reporting.

Second Opportunity

• NOTE: This is a limited submission and UF can only submit one application. No internal submissions have been received, so it is now open to the first application submitted.
• Sponsor: Department of State U.S. Embassy Lome
• Funding Opportunity Title: Africa Regional Democracy Fund
• Key words: Togo, disinformation
• Link to RFP:  https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355708
• Internal deadline: ASAP- submit project summary, budget, justification, and biosketches via Infoready portal: https://ufresearch.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1946734
• Agency Deadline: 08/28/24
• Funding available: minimum of $50,000 to maximum of $250,000 per award
• Period of performance: 12 months
• Program background: The U.S. Embassy Lome through this Notice of Funding Opportunity, is pleased to announce an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to promote inclusive civic engagement and bolster strong and independent democratic institutions. This program seeks to support broader inclusion, better transparency, increase accountability, empower vulnerable groups, and develop stronger institutions. Successful applicants must propose creative, ambitious solutions to improve Togo’s democracy.
• Program Objectives: Political misinformation and disinformation has been investigated and countered, and a cadre of investigators are empowered to continue promoting truth.

Third Opportunity

• NOTE: This is a limited submission and UF can only submit one application. No internal submissions have been received, so it is now open to the first application submitted.
• Sponsor: Department of State U.S. Embassy Public Diplomacy Section of New Zealand
• Funding Opportunity Title: Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Identify and Counter Disinformation
• Key words: New Zealand, disinformation, media training
• Link to RFP:  https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355663
• Internal deadline: ASAP- submit project summary, budget, justification, and biosketches via Infoready portal: https://ufresearch.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1946813
• Agency Deadline: 08/23/24
• Funding available: minimum of $5,000 to maximum of $20,000 per award
• Period of performance: 12-24 months beginning 10/01/24
• Program background: The U.S. Embassy of New Zealand Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations and individuals s to submit applications to carry out projects that will strengthen media capacity, provide media training, and/or provide substantive benefit to media networks in New Zealand and the Pacific by increasing and refining their ability to provide independent, accurate, and fair coverage of topics of importance to the Pacific to their audiences in New Zealand and the Pacific nations.
• Program Objectives: Programs funded as part of this Opportunity are intended to strengthen media capacity, provide media training, and/or provide substantive benefit to media networks in ways that:
  • enhance media outlets’ ability to identify and counter erroneous information and malign influence, and
  • assist organizations to deliver rigorous, independent, accurate, and fair coverage.

Fourth Opportunity

• NOTE: This is a limited submission and UF can only submit one application.
• Sponsor: Department of State U.S. Embassy Yaounde, Cameroon
• Funding Opportunity Title: Capacity Building Program for Leadership of Media associations
• Key words: Cameroon, media, journalism, free press
• Link to RFP:  https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/355890
• Internal deadline: 08/22/24- submit project summary, budget, justification, and biosketches via Infoready portal: https://ufresearch.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1948238
• Agency Deadline: 09/08/24
• Funding available: minimum of $49,000 to maximum of $50,000 per award with total available funding of $50,000
• Period of performance: 6-12 months from the date of award
• Program background: The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon announces an open competition for U.S. based NGOs, or non-profit organization to submit applications to implement the participation of 4 to 5 Cameroonians in a 10-day-in person capacity building international leadership program. The U.S. Embassy Yaounde Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) is seeking proposals to design and implement a ten-day program for four to five leaders of trade unions of journalists or media associations.  The program should combine field trips and meeting with relevant experts from the government, civil society, academia and the media.
• Program Objectives:
  • Design a program in the United States for current/rising Cameroonian leaders of media associations or trade union of journalists to engage with American media associations and trade union of journalists.
  • Participants acquire knowledge and skills on the operations and functioning of US media associations and trade unions of journalists.
  • Acquire skills, tools on lobbying activities, funding, crowd-funding etc.
  • Promote networking between Cameroon association of journalists and association of journalists or NGOs promoting free press and press freedom in the United States.
  • Initiate possible collaboration, partnership and networking between U.S. media associations/trade unions and Cameroons journalists’ associations.

Posted: August 16, 2024
Category: Research Funding Opportunities
Tagged as: business, cameroon, Disinformation, economics, finance, Free Press, investigative journalism, Journalism, media, media training, Misinformation, new zealand, Reporting, Thailand, Togo