InfoNile invites freelancers and staff journalists in the Eastern Nile to submit proposals for in-depth investigative multimedia journalism and data visualization grants meant to support production of stories and visuals.
Proposals should focus on one or more underreported biodiversity and conservation issues in the Nile basin. The output should be a multimedia story incorporating text, video, photography, audio and data visualization/mapping. This grant is exclusively aimed at journalists in any medium in Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia. Please note that if you receive the grant, you will get technical support with designing graphics, data visualization and mapping.
WORTH
- InfoNile will consider stipend requests for journalists, photographers and videographers. Expenses for travel, research and/or database access, and translation may also be covered.
- We expect budgets to not exceed $1,000 per proposal.
ELIGIBILITY
Stories should cover these areas:
- Water grabbing, pollution and/or conflicts and their effects on water resources and communities.
- Effects of climate change on water resources in the basin;
- The social and environmental costs and benefits of specific national and regional development projects such as dams, irrigation schemes, industrial zones, urbanization etc.
- Stories highlighting best policies, programmes and practices about river Nile and its conservation.
- We are looking for stories that are extensive in content and depth, original, under-reported and critical.
DEADLINE: February 23 2018
To apply and for more information visit here
