OpenDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is excited to announce a six-month, full-time investigative journalism fellowship focused on sexual and reproductive health issues, starting in March 2020. Working closely with their editors, the fellow will focus on investigating the health impacts of organised opposition to women’s and LGBTIQ rights across the world.
OpenDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project investigates organised opposition to women’s and LGBTIQ rights across the world. As a feminist media project, they also support more young reporters to do this work with practical fellowships. Their investigations have already had outsized impact and have been cited in leading international media including CNN, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and the Guardian.
WORTH
The fellow will be paid a stipend of $2,100 per month and will be expected to dedicate 40 hours a week to research, reporting, planning and other tasks for at least two major investigative projects.
Throughout, they will receive ongoing mentorship on health reporting and how to plan and execute impactful investigations.
They will also be invited to attend special training workshops.
ELIGIBILITY
- Open to journalists with some experience in health or science reporting who are interested in developing their skills in this area while working on impactful investigations.
- As this is a specialist fellowship, you will get more out of this opportunity if you have at least 3-5 years of previous work experience. However, they will consider applications in their entirety and not on the basis of any single criterion.
- The fellow can be based anywhere in the world with reliable internet access though they particularly encourage applications from women and LGBTIQ candidates living in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus, which are regions where Tracking the Backlash is expanding.
DEADLINE: February 16 2020
To apply and for more information visit here
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