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Other journalism grants
Other places you can apply for research grants
African Center for Media Excellence
Investigative reporting grant in Uganda.
Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism – Jordan
In-depth journalism projects for the benefit of the Arab public.
For all journalists who are passionate about telling a story but cannot go ahead with their projects because of budget problems. Funded by Denmark.
Bertha Britdoc Documentary Journalism Fund - United Kingdom
"The Bertha BRITDOC Fund for Journalism is an international film fund dedicated to supporting long form feature documentaries of a journalistic nature. We are looking for films that break the important stories of our time, expose injustice, bring attention to unreported issues and cameras into regions previously unseen."
Journalism projects on regional issues.
For journalists from the Balkans. Funded by Robert Bosch Stiftung and ERSTE Foundation.
Journalism projects on scientific research.
For science journalists. Administered by Fonds voor Bijzondere Journalistiek, funded among others by SWJV and Communication Science Foundation.
Investigative research and reporting.
Freelance journalists working on international stories. Administrated by Center for Investigative Reporting.
Dick Scherpenzeel Stichting – Netherlands
Coverage of non-Western countries and the North-South relations in Dutch media.
Funded by the French speaking community in Belgium.
Fonds voor Bijzondere Journalistieke Projecten – Netherlands
Journalistic and other non-fiction projects including biographies that work on achieving quality results.
For Dutch journalists and writers. Funded among others by SWJV and Communication Science Foundation.
Contact: fonds@fondsbjp.nl
Freevoice - Het Postcode Loterij Fonds
For journalists who cover developping countries, covers travel costs among other things. Funding comes from a national lottery, and editorial independence is guaranteed.
Contact: Freevoice
Fund for Investigative Journalism - USA
Investigative pieces involving corruption, malfeasance, incompetence and societal ills in general as well as investigative media criticism.
For journalists seeking pre-publication help for investigative projects.
For research into the links between subsidies and sustainable development.
For journalists world-wide who have demonstrated an aptitude for investigative journalism. Funded by the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
The Lloyd Fund's primary focus is on innacurately or under-reported cases of malfeasance, or clandestine manipulation and exploitation of natural resources or political processes by U.S. corporations, institutions, or other power elites, at home and around the globe.
For freelancers. Administrated by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/projects/hdlloydfund
Huffington Post Investigative Fund – USA
New fund. The focus at the beginning is going to be on investigating aspects of the economic crisis.
For investigative reporters. Funded by Huffington Post and the Atlantic Philantropies.
Stories of vital public interest in Britain that have an important international connection, particularly in the developing world, but where the costs of chasing down the truth may seem prohibitively high.
Support for the research costs associated with investigative journalism. The Fund emphasizes reporting on subjects often ignored by the mainstream media, and seeks to improve the scope and overall quality of investigative reporting in the independent press and beyond. Above all, we want to support reporting with the potential to have a social impact.
For investigative journalists. Funded by The Nation Institute.
Kaiser Media Fellowships – USA
Research and reporting on global health issues.
For journalists working within English-speaking news organizations with target audiences in North America and/or Europe. Print, radio, television, and online journalists (including freelancers). Funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Research grants for investigative stories in the fields of the environment, business and Eastern Germany with a special weight on research methods.
For all German journalists. Environmental research supported by Greenpeace, WWF and the environmental organisation BUND. Research on business and finance funded by Allianz. East German themes supported by the Otto Brenner Foundation.
Contact: info@netzwerkrecherche.de
Supports research on Nordic countries and Nordic coorporation
For all journalists from the Nordic countries. Funded by Nordisk Raad.
Travel stipends with a special emphasis on seniority.
For journalists, photographers and illustrators. Editorial staff as well as freelancers who regularly deliver editorial material for dailies, weeklies or periodicals. Granted by Pressens Stipendkomite, Norsk Journalistlag
Travel stipends granted for professional journalistic projects
For Norwegian journalists. Funded by the Norwegian Committee of Arts, Department of Culture.
Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events—on crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and genocide.
Journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events. Print and broadcast reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of journalism experience. Currently limited to applicants from the areas of major Dart Center activity: the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Otto Brenner Stiftung – Germany
Socially relevant subjects undermined by the media. E.g. corporate power, corruption.
Research stipendia for investigative and quality journalism published in Flanders.
Journalism with relevance for Flanders and published in Flanders. Funded by The Flemish Government.
Politics, society and culture
For freelance journalists in Germany.
For journalists in Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Aserbajdjan, Armenia, Georgia / special support for cross-border research / all subjects. Funded by Danish foreign ministry 'Neightbourhood Programme', administrated by www.fuj.dk and www.i-m-s.dk
Soma Foundation - Hungary
Stipend for human rights journalism – Norway
Research on human rights matters from different perspectives: national and international as well as academic.
For members of Norsk Journalistlag or Norsk Redaktoerforening. Administered by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, funded by the Norwegian Anti-Slavery Association and others.
Contact: psm://nj@nj.no
Supports critical investigative journalism on business and finance matters. For individual journalists as well as groups of journalists. Mainly funded by Storebrand Stipend Fund.
Contact: psm://nj@nj.no
To improve the quality and quantity of public interest and investigative journalism in Tanzania.
For journalists based in mainland Tanzania and/or Zanzibar. Numerous development partners.
Support for critical and investigative journalism about development policies.
For journalists in Denmark. Funded by Folkekirkens Noedhjaelp.
For all journalists in Norway. Funded by Fritt Ord, Adresseavisen, Bergens Tidende, Stavanger Aftenblad, Faedrelandsvennen and Schibsted
Public health from the patient perspective.
For Dutch researchers. Funded by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) and the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Updated November 2010 by Brigitte Alfter, initial research by Ida Zidore Christensen