Earth Shorts 2025 Fellowship for Social Media Creators & Journalists in South and Southeast Asia – YOA

Deadline: July 11, 2025

Applications are open for the Earth Shorts 2025 Fellowship for Social Media Creators and Journalists in South and Southeast Asia. Following a profitable pilot mission in the Philippines, EJN is launching the following section of Earth Shorts. Earth Shorts 2025 is in search of social media content material creators curious to be taught extra about biodiversity points and incorporate journalism abilities, in addition to environmental journalists in constructing their social media abilities for a joint fellowship program designed to allow each teams to share insights and create proof-primarily based and partaking biodiversity-associated content material on social media.

Benefits

• As part of this program, they may supply US$2,000 every to 10 social media content material creators and 10 journalists throughout South and Southeast Asia, to carry collectively a cohort of 20 data producers in boosting their abilities, collaborating in peer studying and producing excessive-high quality biodiversity-associated video content material for their audiences.
• Selected content material producers will take part in a 3-day digital coaching workshop on biodiversity and conservation points and, with assist from mentors, produce and disseminate at the least 5 items of biodiversity-associated video content material every on social media platforms.

Eligibility

• They will settle for functions from social media content material creators and journalists primarily based in South and Southeast Asia, which incorporates the next international locations: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, Thailand (together with Myanmar nationals primarily based in Thailand), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines.
• Content creators ought to actively and steadily submit brief-kind movies on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X or different main social media platforms, regarding subjects resembling way of life, social points, journey, science, economic system, politics, and well being. They ask that creators have an viewers measurement between 20,000 and 200,000 followers. Creators shouldn’t be presently reporting for any media retailers; former journalists are eligible. Prior content material centered on biodiversity shouldn’t be a requirement, nonetheless, an curiosity in linking your work to biodiversity points is vital.
• Journalists ought to actively and steadily be reporting on biodiversity points and may be on workers at a media outlet or freelance. Journalists ought to have an energetic presence on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X or different main social media platforms (posting at the least as soon as per week and/or recurrently creating video or textual content content material about their journalistic initiatives), however there isn’t any viewers measurement requirement. Prior expertise as a content material creator shouldn’t be a requirement, nonetheless, an curiosity in rising your social media abilities is vital.
• For the needs of this grant OPPORTUNITY, they may settle for functions in English solely. Applicants should both have a working understanding of English or have a translator out there to help with communication with Internews workers. However, creators and journalists can produce work in any language.
• EJN reserves the fitting 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 take into account the next judging standards when devising their pitches.

Selection of content material creators shall be primarily based on:

• A constant monitor report of manufacturing brief-kind video content material.
• Number of followers (between 20,000 and 200,000).

Selection of journalists shall be primarily based on:

• A constant monitor report of overlaying biodiversity points for media retailers.
• An energetic social media presence, resembling posting at the least as soon as per week and creating video or textual content content material about your journalistic initiatives.

All functions may even be judged utilizing the next standards:

• Relevance: Do the video concepts outlined in the application meet the factors and aims of the decision? Is the primary thought, context and total worth to the audience clearly outlined?
• Angle: Do your concepts for content material carry new insights or supply a recent angle on biodiversity points?
• Impact: Do your pitches appear compelling? Are they prone to inform and interact, draw consideration, set off debate and urge motion?
• Innovative storytelling: The use of inventive video modifying approaches, narrative types and/or knowledge shall be thought-about a plus.
• Motivation: Demonstrated curiosity in utilizing social media to provide impactful content material on biodiversity and clear plan to proceed producing this sort of content material following the fellowship.
• Availability: Selected fellows might want to take part in the pre- and submit-workshop surveys, be part of all three days of the coaching workshop, attend all peer studying periods, and decide to producing and disseminating at the least 5 items of content material by February 2026.

Application

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For extra data, go to Earth Shorts Fellowship.