EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Covering Gibbons & Orangutans in Asia 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 24, 2026

Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Media Workshop on Covering Gibbons & Orangutans in Asia 2026. Internews Earth Journalism Network is internet hosting a 3-day digital media workshop in mid-June 2026 for environmental journalists throughout Asia looking for to report on the important threats dealing with each small and nice apes—our closest dwelling kinfolk.

Focusing on gibbons and orangutans, the workshop will discover conservation effectiveness, whereas encouraging journalists to maneuver past wildlife tales to look at our shared evolutionary path and why defending apes is inseparable from defending forests, human well being and our future.

Benefits

• Participants who attend all periods will obtain a certificates of completion from EJN.
• Participants who attend all three days of the workshop will even be eligible to apply for a narrative fellowship to provide journalistic work following the workshop, which might be awarded to as much as 10 journalists, $US1,500 every. More info might be offered through the workshop.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be from one of many following 9 gibbon- and/or orangutan-vary international locations in Asia: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
• They will solely settle for functions in English. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate functions submitted in different languages at the moment. Although simultaneous interpretation might be offered in as much as seven languages, relying on the combination of chosen members, candidates are anticipated to have the ability to talk in primary English to make sure efficient coordination with EJN workers.
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv or radio). They welcome functions from freelance reporters in addition to workers from all forms of media organizations, together with group-primarily based, native, nationwide, and worldwide shops. They particularly encourage ladies, rural, Indigenous and early-profession journalists to apply.
• Applicants aren’t required to have prior expertise reporting on apes. However, they need to display a robust background in environmental reporting and a transparent dedication to proceed protecting ape conservation and associated points after the workshop.
• EJN reserves the suitable 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, submitting plagiarized content material as their very own.

Application

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For extra info, go to EJN Virtual Media Workshop.