Rainforest Investigation Network Fellowship 2026/2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: May 22, 2026

Applications are open for the Rainforest Investigation Network Fellowship 2026/2027. RIN Fellows will pursue each particular person and joint investigative tasks, analyzing the basis causes and structural drivers of deforestation throughout the three important tropical rainforest areas: the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.

They are in search of seasoned investigative journalists—whether or not they’re on workers or working with a number outlet as a freelancer—who’re from the tropical rainforest areas or give attention to these areas of their reporting. They additionally settle for collaborations with native and world media retailers.

Applicants are inspired to suggest bold and impactful tasks that study systemic and structural drivers of rainforest degradation. They welcome revolutionary, knowledge-pushed investigation approaches, together with using applied sciences resembling Amazon Mining Watch or different methodologies.

Benefits

• This is a full-time, yearlong fellowship that gives monetary assist, masking the reporter’s wage. Additional assist can be supplied to the journalist’s reporting bills, resembling journey and hiring of consultants.

Eligibility

• Open to skilled investigative journalists with a confirmed observe file masking the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia areas.
• Reporters primarily based in international locations exterior the three important tropical rainforest areas—Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia—may apply however might want to focus their reporting in the course of the fellowship on tales associated to those areas.
• Staff or freelance journalists engaged on a variety of platforms, together with print, radio, video, and multimedia. Freelance reporters might want to have the assist of an area or worldwide newsroom that agrees to host them and publish the work they produce in the course of the fellowship.  
• Team gamers with the expertise and/or capacity to work collaboratively throughout newsrooms and borders. 
• Reporters with a deep understanding of the scientific, environmental, social, authorized, political, and business forces at play in deforestation and forest degradation all over the world—and why this situation issues to our world properly-being.
• Reporters keen to take part in outreach actions associated to their investigations, resembling conferences in communities and visits to colleges and universities.

Application

To apply, you’ll be requested to supply the next:

• A press release of function: How does this fellowship slot in your profession path and why are you greatest positioned to be a Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow? You may embody how collaboration with journalists from different areas can profit your investigations or the way you may have the ability to help them. (500 phrases)
• An investigative undertaking proposal describing probably the most bold rainforest reporting you search to pursue throughout your fellowship. Please don’t suggest normal themes, however supply concrete investigative tasks that intention to uncover systemic wrongdoing/abuse that’s unknown or hidden. It is predicted that by the point you apply you might have already finished pre-reporting to find out the scope, feasibility, and novelty of the undertaking. A compelling, properly-researched undertaking proposal with a reporting plan will enable you stand out amongst a whole bunch of candidates. If the investigation features a cross-border method, clarify your collaboration plan and establish companions exterior and inside the community. (1,000 phrases)
• A plan for a way your undertaking can be printed and distributed, which audiences you need to attain, and the way you’ll interact them (500 phrases).
• Three examples (hyperlinks) of your most impactful investigations printed previously three years. 
• A letter of assist out of your media employer or a newsroom that has agreed to host you as a Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow and publish your work. 
• Three skilled references: These could be both contact data or letters of advice. 
• A duplicate of your résumé or curriculum vitae.

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For extra data, go to Rainforest Investigation Network Fellowship.