Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship 2025 : Apply Now

A partnership between Surge Africa and One World Media

Are you a Nigerian journalist enthusiastic about making complicated local weather points significant and related to your group? The Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship, launched by Surge Africa and One World Media, presents you a singular alternative to inform the tales that matter.

Across Nigeria, the impacts of local weather change — from warmth waves to water shortage, to the challenges of the power transition — are more and more seen. Yet native tales connecting these modifications to individuals’s each day lives typically go underreported. The Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship goals to vary that.

Through this Fellowship, six Nigerian journalists will obtain monetary assist, coaching, and mentorship to provide authentic, community-centered reporting on local weather finance and power transitions.

What the Fellowship Offers

• Grants between £3,000 and £5,000 to assist your reporting mission
• One-to-one mentorship with business specialists
• In-depth coaching workshops (on-line and in particular person)
• A curated worldwide reporting coaching journey to Colombia
• Membership within the One World Media world alumni community
• Industry workshops overlaying security, influence, pitching, and extra
• Global promotion of your last tales

All tasks have to be accomplished by June 2026.

What Kind of Stories Are We Looking For?

Your story concepts ought to concentrate on local weather change and power transition in Nigeria or the broader area. We are particularly desirous about:

• Transition minerals and their governance
• Energy entry, power poverty, and decentralizing power programs
• Phasing out fossil fuels and its financial impacts
• Diplomacy and politics round local weather finance
• Local options and grassroots voices responding to local weather impacts
• Data-driven reporting with robust proof and human tales
• Underreported tales with recent, inventive angles

We encourage proposals utilizing a spread of codecs: textual content, video, audio, knowledge visualisation, animation, interactive or multimedia storytelling.

Who Can Apply?

• Journalists and filmmakers based mostly in Nigeria
• 3–5 years {of professional} expertise in journalism or their chosen medium
• No earlier background in local weather finance required — only a dedication to telling impactful local weather and power tales

We are particularly eager to listen to proposals that spotlight underrepresented communities, unheard voices, or ship uncommon entry and sudden insights.

Fellowship Timeline

• Applications shut: 20 August 2025
• Fellows introduced: October 2025
• Project completion: June 2026

How It Works

Fellows will be part of an in-person coaching workshop in Nigeria, plus on-line workshops all through the programme. You will obtain editorial steering and one-to-one mentorship in your story improvement. Fellows may even journey to Colombia for a tailor-made coaching on participatory reporting with mission companion Mutante.

Your grant might be paid in instalments that will help you meet key milestones and deadlines. Final items could also be revealed in any format (textual content as much as 2,000 phrases, audio as much as half-hour, or movies as much as 10 minutes).

Why This Fellowship?

Climate change is remodeling Nigeria — however the media protection has not stored up. This Fellowship is designed to construct the talents and information of journalists to inform these important tales in methods which are domestically grounded and globally linked.

Our shared mission is to:

• Uncover the politics of power transition
• Examine the realities of local weather finance
• Localize local weather knowledge for Nigerian communities
• Expand community-led narratives
• Strengthen citizen participation and spotlight grassroots options

About the Partners

The Fellowship is part of The Climate Reporting Gap Initiative (CRGI), a collaboration between Surge Africa, One World Media, Mutante, and the University of Birmingham.

Surge Africa is a pioneering organisation working throughout Africa and Latin America to construct local weather resilience, strengthen communities, and unlock native potential.

One World Media is a UK-based charity supporting journalists and filmmakers worldwide to inform tales that form a fairer, extra simply world.

Ready to make local weather tales matter?
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