Surge Africa x One World Media Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship 2025 (Up to £5,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Surge Africa x One World Media Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship 2025. Are you a Nigerian journalist obsessed with making advanced local weather points accessible and related to your neighborhood? One World Media, in partnership with Surge Africa, is thrilled to launch a brand new OPPORTUNITY as part of The Climate Reporting Gap Initiative.

Across Nigeria, the impacts of local weather change are more and more seen — from rising warmth and water shortage to the complexities of the power transition. Yet, native tales that join these challenges to folks’s day by day lives typically stay underreported. That’s the place the Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship is available in.

This new initiative will help six Nigerian journalists to report unique tales on local weather finance and power transition by way of inclusive, knowledge-pushed and neighborhood-centred reporting. Whether you’re drawn to print, audio, video, or multimedia reporting, this Fellowship is designed to allow you to produce compelling, options-centered journalism that resonates on the native and regional degree.

Benefits

• Up to £5k funding for his or her reporting
• One-to-one mentoring
• In-depth coaching, in individual and on-line
• Industry workshops, together with security, influence, and pitching
• Training journey to Colombia, South America
• Global promotion of all media items by challenge companions
• Membership of the OWM international alumni community 

Eligibility

• Open to journalists and filmmakers from Nigeria, and reporting in Nigeria.
• They are on the lookout for mid-profession and skilled candidates, with at the very least 3-5 years expertise of their subject.
• Applicants don’t want to have a background in local weather finance, however an curiosity in telling tales in regards to the local weather disaster and power transitions, and a robust background in journalism and/or their chosen medium.
• They are notably eager to hear artistic proposals that cowl an underreported story or hear from people who find themselves typically unheard and supply sudden or uncommon entry.

Application

Application deadline is August 20, 2025. All tasks have to be accomplished by June 2026.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship.