Journalist / Media Fellowship 2010 – Inclusive Media for Change
February 15th, 2010
Inclusive Media for Change Invites Journalist / Media For 2010 Fellowship
About Inclusive Media for Change :
We, a small team of development thinkers, media persons and researchers, are trying to create a clearing house of information on India’s rural crisis so as to generate meaningful debates. The project is funded by a Ford Foundation grant.
We are based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), near Delhi University’s North Campus. We run a web-based resource centre, (www.im4change.org) designed mainly for media persons, policy-makers and researchers who need to make sense of rural India’s multiple crises. We also conduct media research mainly to audit mainstream media’s coverage of rural issues and hold occasional workshops for rural reporters and civil society activists
Inclusive Media Fellowships for Journalists 2010
Inclusive media for change, an initiative based at the CSDS, invites applications for short-term (six-week) media fellowships for print and electronic media journalists in English and Hindi for early 2010. The fellowship amount is Rs. 95,000 plus Rs 55,000 for travel and incidental expenses. (The last date for applications is Feb 15, 2010)
The fellowships will be awarded to newspaper/ magazine/ radio/ TV and Internet journalists/ photo-journalists on themes of multiple crises in rural India. The topics/ projects chosen must be about issues/ success stories/ positive interventions/ policy alternatives in the areas of rural livelihoods, agrarian crises, agriculture and environment, distress migration, hunger/ malnutrition, rural health,
empowerment and law and justice.
The final output of the selected candidates will be in the form of stories or series of reports/ articles/ radio or TV packages/ photo features to be carried by the media platform sponsoring the candidates with due acknowledgement to the Inclusive Media Project of the CSDS. Out of the fellowship duration of six weeks, four weeks are assigned for news/ material gathering and the remaining two weeks for writing/ producing/ editing or putting together of the information gathered.
All professional journalists employed with media organizations and free lancers, who can provide evidence of support from a publication/ media organization, are eligibility to apply. The media organization will have to give an undertaking that the final output of the fellowship would be used in their publications in a format of their choice (i.e., series of reports, travelogues, edit/ op-ed articles, photo feature, documentary or TV/radio packages). The fellowships will be announced in mid-February and begin by March 1, 2010. The selection will be done by a jury of eminent journalists and development thinkers. Two third of the fellowship money will be given as advance in order to fund the initial research and travels, and the rest will be given after receiving the evidence of the project’s completion.
The applications should include the candidate’s CV (within 3 A4 pages) along with the following:
- A project proposal not to exceed 500 words
- A break up of 3 to 5 ideas for stories/ reports/ pictures/ packages (within 200 words)
- A brief note on travels/ boarding/ other requirements (within Rs. 55,000)
- Two samples of published work in English or Hindi
- A supporting letter from the editor assuring leave for 4 weeks and agreeing to use the output
- (Free lancers must procure a letter from an editor agreeing to use the fellowship output)
- A letter of recommendation about the candidate’s past record and suitability for the project
Conditions:
The verdict of the fellowship jury will be final.
All payments will be subject to TDS rules.
The Inclusive media project will suspend or withdraw the grant/ advance payment if the fellow fails to complete the project and publish its outcome. The candidates are strongly advised to read the rules carefully before applying and not to wait for the last date.
The outcomes of the fellowships will also be put on the website (im4change.org)
The completed application must reach the following address:
Inclusive Media Project, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), 29, Rajpur Road, Delhi 11 00 54.
The applicants can also e-mail their applications at im4change. csds@ gmail .com. Those sending their applications via e-mail must ensure that the scanned copies of supporting letters from the editor and the letter of recommendation from a referee are also enclosed. However, if you are in doubt, please also courier a copy of the application at the above address after sending the email strictly within the deadline
Contact :
Inclusive Media for Change
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
29, Rajpur Road,
Delhi 11 00 54
Phone: +91 11 23981012
Fax: +91 11 23943450
E mail: coreteam@im4change.org
Source : http://im4change.org/staticPages.php?pageId=19
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