The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is pleased to partner with Facebook Journalism Project on a training program that allows journalists across the Middle East and North Africa to produce high-quality and engaging stories that shine a light on life in refugee camps at this time of the coronavirus pandemic. The program equips journalists with the skills, resources, and technical support needed to produce compelling reports that surface underreported stories from refugee camps across countries with large refugee communities such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq. With an emphasis on the direct and indirect consequences of COVID-19 on an already struggling community. The goal is to ensure that this vulnerable community is not forgotten during the global pandemic.
The program includes the following core components:
- An intensive four-week online course that offers a combination of subject-matter and technical training for professional and citizen journalists, freelancers, and stringers. The course will be offered twice to a total of 120 journalists in 2020.
- Reporting grants to support journalists as they produce in-depth, compelling stories focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on refugee communities.
- Dedicated mentorship and guidance to enable participants to apply their skills and leverage their grants to produce high-quality stories.
WORTH
- ICFJ will award a total of 17 grants up to a maximum of $1,500 each. To help journalists cover a personal stipend as well as expenses for equipment and resources in producing in-depth, compelling stories focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on refugee communities.
ELIGIBILITY
- Reporters with an interest in shining a light on refugee stories, but who lack the resources and capacity.
- Media professionals working on the refugee beat.
- Journalists reporting from within refugee camps.
- Stringers and freelancers hired by local newsrooms to report on refugee communities (an increasingly common practice).
DEADLINE: June 8 2020
To apply and for more information visit here
