About the Fellowship Program

Core Components

  • Comprehensive digital safety coaching, together with individualized threat assessments
  • Workshops on security, resilience, and self-care for journalists overlaying delicate subjects
  • Peer-to-peer alternate inside a various cohort
  • Insight into RSF’s international human rights work
  • Networking alternatives with German newsrooms and media professionals
  • Engagement with civil society and coverage stakeholders in Germany
  • Holistic psychosocial help

What RSF Provides

  • Visa and journey bills
  • Assistance with all visa processes
  • Furnished studio condo in Berlin
  • Monthly residing stipend
  • Health and journey insurance coverage
  • Public transportation inside Germany
  • Travel to conferences and networking occasions
  • Coworking area in a Berlin media hub
  • Cultural, touristic, and social actions

Eligibility & Requirements

Expectations

  • Openness to sharing experiences and challenges inside a various cohort
  • Commitment to delivering at the least one coaching workshop post-fellowship
  • Ability to return to the nation or area of residence after the program
  • Fluency in English (program language)

Additional Notes

  • Applicants should work in unbiased, non-governmental media
  • Journalists overlaying human rights–associated points (e.g., corruption, local weather, labor rights, migration) will obtain favorable consideration
  • Applicants should clarify their experiences of threats, digital dangers confronted, and the way digital safety coaching would enhance their security and that of colleagues or sources

Digital Security Training Focus

  • Operational safety and threat assessments
  • Online id administration & anonymization instruments
  • Secure communication and conferencing instruments
  • Account, password, and social media safety
  • Device safety for cellular & desktop
  • Website and knowledge safety towards assaults
  • Secure file storage, encryption & backup
  • OSINT instruments and strategies
  • Countering on-line violence, gender-based harassment, and digital abuse

How to Apply

  • Completed application type
  • Passport scan
  • CV
  • Contact data for two skilled references

Selection Process

  • Eligible purposes are reviewed after the deadline
  • Shortlisted candidates will probably be invited to a digital interview by mid-March 2026
  • Final choices will probably be made by the finish of March 2026

Partners & Support