Here are a few media opportunities journalists, photographers and content creators can apply for before August ends.
Wharton School’s Business Journalism Seminars. Deadline: August 26, 2024
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is organizing seminars for Business Journalists and there are funding opportunities to attend the event.
The Wharton Seminars for business journalists aim to help reporters improve their reporting skills and gain insights into key business and economic issues like financial markets taxation and more. This year’s seminar will be held in Philadelphia, PA between October 14 and 16.
The National Press Foundation (NPF) is offering all-expense-paid fellowships for two U.S.-based journalists to attend the seminar.
Interested journalists can apply before the end of today August 26 2024, here
Action Against Hunger’s Grant for A New Humanitarian Look. Deadline: August 31, 2024
Action Against Hunger is calling on photographers, videographers and content creators to apply for the second edition of its Grant for a New Humanitarian Look.
Applicants are to propose a project to free themselves from assimilated conventions, to be creative and bold in order to fuel a collective reflection on the development of multimedia language, in the humanitarian and social fields.
The grant is intended to be a place for exploration of new narrative and iconographic processes and the winner will receive EUR10,000 to carry out their proposed project.
Interested persons should apply before midnight August 31 through this link
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The Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant Deadline: August 31, 2024
Young photographers or photography students below 24 years can apply for the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant which aims to help young photographers undertake selected projects and raise their international profiles.
There are two prizes in this year’s contest: the Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence and the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant. Each winner will receive GBP10,000 (US$12,706), Canon photo equipment and more.
Entrants must submit a portfolio and proposal of a project they would undertake if they won the grants. Interested photographers should apply before August 30 here
CENOZO Climate Change Training for West and Central African Journalists. Deadline: August 30, 2024.
African journalists with proven experience investigating climate change are invited to apply for climate change training for journalists.
The Cellule Norbert Zongo pour le journalisme d’investigation en Afrique de l’Ouest CENOZO) in implementing phase three of the “West and Central Africa and Climate Change” project is seeking applications from 12 journalists from selected countries in West and Central Africa.
Journalists from the following countries are eligible: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo.
Selected journalists will participate in capacity-building and investigative production activities, supported by mentoring and legal editing.
Interested journalists can apply for the opportunity before Aug. 30 here
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#AIJC2024 Investigative Journalism Masterclass Fellowships. Deadline: August 30, 2024.
The African Investigative Journalism Conference (#AIJC2024), in partnership with SKUP, the Association for Critical and Investigative Press in Norway and Bellingcat, is offering an intensive training course on the latest investigative journalism techniques for African journalists.
The three-day masterclass will be held preceding the annual AIJC conference, Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fellowships will be granted to experienced investigative journalists and trainers from African countries, based on their track records and recent work.
Interested journalists should apply for the opportunity before August 30 here
