EJN Story Grants to Support Reporting on the Marine Environment in the Adriatic Region 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 27, 2025

Applications are open for the EJN Story Grants to Support Reporting on the Marine Environment in the Adriatic Region 2025. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is happy to announce a brand new story grant name to help in-depth reporting on the marine setting in the Adriatic area—together with unlawful, underneath-reported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, air pollution, coastal growth points and the biodiversity disaster—in addition to options to the local weather and environmental threats confronting this ecosystem, similar to the institution of marine protected areas, new laws to curb IUU fishing, group-primarily based marine conservation initiatives and enhanced monitoring and enforcement.

In addition to funding, the chosen journalists will obtain help from skilled mentors via the story manufacturing course of.

This OPPORTUNITY is a collaboration between EJN’s Boosting Environmental Coverage in the Western Balkans mission and their Mediterranean Media Initiative (MMI) mission. MMI has supported marine reporting in the broader area since March 2022. and continues to construct the capability of journalists reporting on marine points impacting their nations and the wider area.

Grant

• They count on to award up to 10 grants with a price range of up to 1,200 Euros every with the expectation that the tales might be revealed earlier than the finish of September 2025.  Applicants ought to contemplate this timeline when drafting their workplan.

Eligibility

• Applications from Western Balkan nations that border the Adriatic Sea are welcome (i.e. Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania). Journalists from inland Balkan nations similar to Serbia, Kosovo and North Macedonia are additionally eligible to apply if their tales will be immediately tied to the Adriatic Sea. Journalists from Italy are additionally eligible to apply.
• Groups of journalists are eligible, and cross-border collaborations are most welcome; nevertheless, the application have to be made in the title of 1 lead applicant. Lead candidates are accountable for speaking with EJN and receiving funds on the group’s behalf, if awarded.
• For the functions of this grant alternative, they may solely be accepting written purposes in English. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate purposes in different languages at the moment. Applicants should have a working understanding of English or have a translator obtainable to help with communication with Internews workers.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio, social media) and different professional media practitioners with skilled reporting expertise. They welcome purposes from early-profession journalists and skilled reporters with a monitor file of environmental points. They encourage purposes from freelance reporters and workers from all varieties of media organizations—worldwide, nationwide, native and group-primarily based.
• EJN reserves the proper to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, plagiarism and/or submitting AI-generated content material as their very own.

Judging Criteria

Applicants ought to contemplate the following factors when devising their story proposals.

• Relevance: Does the proposal meet the standards and aims of the name? Why does this story matter and to whom? Is the major thought, context and general worth to the audience clearly outlined?
• Angle: If the story has been coated, does your proposal carry new insights to the subject or supply a contemporary angle?
• Impact: Does the proposal have a compelling narrative or investigative component that may inform and have interaction, draw consideration, set off debate and spur motion?
• Innovative storytelling: The use of artistic approaches, multimedia and knowledge visualization might be thought-about a plus.
• Plan for well timed publication: Reporters, whether or not freelance or employed at a media outlet, will want to embrace a letter of help from an editor in their application, committing to publish the tales by September 30, 2025 at the newest. Requests for extensions might be thought-about on a case-by-case foundation.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to EJN Story Grants.