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 The Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund is funded by Irish Aid and run by Connect-World. It is a grant scheme aimed at assisting and promoting more and better quality media coverage of development issues in the Irish media. Upcoming deadlines for applications are as follows:
· Standard Grant Round II (2008) – 30 September
Connect-World also sponsors the Digital Media Award for student multimedia projects.
Selected Media Awards and Funding
Selected journalism awards provided by external organisations:
Third Coast Festival/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition
...honouring the most creative and compelling audio work produced worldwide, and backed by Chicago Public Radio. Prizes for Best Documentary, Directors’ Choice, Best New Artist and Radio Impact.
Early deadline for entries – postmarked on or before Friday, June 27, 2008
Late deadline for entries – postmarked Saturday June 28 through Friday, July 18, 2008
Radharc Awards
The Radharc Awards celebrate television documentaries of outstanding quality that address national or international topics of social justice, morality and faith. This year sees the addition of a Short Documentary Award.
Deadline: July 23, 2008, 5pm
PPI Radio Awards 2008 - Recognising the Best in Irish Radio Broadcasting
To qualify, entries must have been broadcast between 1st August 2007 and 30th June 2008.
Close of online entry: July 28, 2008
Receipt of entries on CD: July 31, 2008
Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships
The Dart Center provides six or more expense-paid fellowships to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events.
Deadline: July 30, 2008
Fund for Investigative Journalism
The Fund for Investigative Journalism gives grants, ranging from $500 to $10,000, to reporters working outside the protection and backing of major news organizations.
Grants are limited to journalists seeking pre-publication help for investigative pieces involving corruption, malfeasance, incompetence and societal ills in general as well as for investigative media criticism. The Fund does not award educational scholarships or grants for professional training.
2007 deadline: August
Potato photography competition
Potato photography competition to tie in with the International Year of the Potato and highlight the potato’s role as a source of food, employment and income in developing countries. The United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are looking for the best photographs illustrating potato biodiversity, cultivation, processing, trade, marketing and consumption. There are separate categories for professional and amateur photographers, with full information on the FAO website
Deadline: September 1, 2008
Rory Peck Awards
The Rory Peck Awards 2007 has opened for entries. The competition celebrates the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in TV news and current affairs. There are three separate awards: the Sony Impact Award, the Rory Peck Award for Hard News and the Rory Peck Award for Features.
Deadline: September 2, 2008
MAMA (Media And Multicultural Awards)
All over Ireland there are people and organisations whose work in promoting cross-cultural understanding and co-operation is making a real difference. The Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA) honours their contributions.
The Media Awards category honours Irish and non-Irish journalists or media groups – including print, broadcast and visual from the island of Ireland. Entrants are invited to submit works which promote and inform cross-cultural understanding and co-operation. One Media Award will be made in each of five categories including a new Northern Ireland Media Award. Entry form [PDF].
2007 Deadline: October 1
Awareness raising in the field of developement - Audiovisual projects for television 2008
The European Commission is launching a call for proposals for the co-financing of awareness raising actions for television on developing country issues
Deadline: October 6, 2008 at 16 h
UNCA 2007 Awards
The UN Correspondents Association invites media worldwide to submit entries for its Twelfth Annual UNCA Awards for the best written and electronic media coverage of the United Nations, its agencies and field operations. (No entry fees.)
The UNCA Awards include the $10,000 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for written media (including online media), the $10,000 Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for broadcast journalism, and the $10,000 United Nations Foundation prize for any entry in any medium that best covers the humanitarian and development aspects of the U.N. and its agencies. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will present the prizes at the UNCA Awards Dinner.
2007 Deadline: October 27
Knight Fellowships
Knight Fellowships at Stanford for mid-career journalists. Fellows receive a stipend of $60,000 plus tuition and benefits for the nine-month programme
2007 Deadline for International applications: Dec. 15. Winners notified in early May.
World Press Photo contest
The World Press Photo contest is open to all professional press photographers. There is no entry fee. Not only photographers, but photo agencies, newspapers and magazines from anywhere in the world are invited to submit their best news-related pictures of the previous year. Both single images and photo stories are eligible.
2008 Deadline: 10 January
CIVIS Media Prize for integration and cultural diversity
"Please send us your best radio and TV programmes focussing on the issues of integration and cultural diversity. Essentially,we are looking for entries which address this topic cogently in order to promote greater openness and interchange between the different cultures – without glossing over the conflicts." There is CIVIS Media Prize and a Young CIVIS Media Prize for those aged 32 and under. There is also a new CIVIS Theme Prize - open to all television broadcasters - about the integration of immigrants at the workplace in business and industry.
2008 Deadline: January 20
International Alternative Channel Citizen Journalist Contest
$100,000 in prizes. 3 categories. The International Alternative Channel Citizen Journalist Contest is open to every citizen of the world—amateur or professional. Format: a short video (report or testimonial) of 1 minute 30 seconds to 6 minutes.
2008 Deadline: 25 January
European Journalism Fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin
Each year, 10 to 15 fellowships are awarded to journalists from Eastern and Western Europe and the United States who want to spend two semesters engaging in research in Berlin.
2008 Deadline: 31 January
Susie Smith memorial prize
The Susie Smith memorial prize of £3000 will be awarded to an already published piece of work on HIV and AIDS from sub-Saharan Africa. Any type of piece – (e.g. poetry, fiction, article, chapter of a book) – of up to 10,000 words, in English, and published since January 2006, will be eligible. Check eligibility with: susiesmithmemorialprize@oxfam.org.uk
2008 Deadline: 31 January
ICIJ Award
The ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting is the only one of its kind created specifically to honor transnational investigative reporting. The competition is open to any professional journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in any medium. The main criterion for eligibility is that the investigation - either a single work or a single-subject series - involves reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance.
2008 Deadline: Feb. 15.
Wildscreen Panda Awards
Productions must have an aspect of the natural world as the central focus such as revealing new facts about humankind’s relationship with the natural environment and with animals.
2008 deadline: Friday March 28th
The Annual Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards
The Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards recognise and reward journalists and editors providing high quality coverage of the business environment in Africa. Currently there is relatively little reporting of business on the continent. The resulting shortfall in reliable information is hindering greater investment in Africa.
To qualify for the 2008 Awards, all submissions should have been published or broadcast in the period 1 May 2007 - 31 April 2008 inclusive.
2008 Deadline: May 1
The Guardian International Development Journalism Competition
This Competition is open to UK residents. The Guardian, in partnership with eight UK-based international non-government organisations (NGOs), wants to find exciting new voices in journalism. They are looking for anyone who is willing to rise to the challenge of writing about some of the most crucial issues facing the developing world today - issues that are often overlooked or underrepresented by the media. There are two strands of entry: For professional freelance journalists and for amateurs.
2008 Deadline: May 6
Grierson Documentary Awards
The Annual Grierson British Documentary Awards, which celebrates the best in documentary making from around the globe, has launched its call for entries. The Grierson Awards are open to documentaries from anywhere in the world, though they must have had their first UK screening between 1 May 2007 and 30 April 2008.
2008 Deadline: May 30
2008 Environmental Media Awards
Run by Reuters Foundation and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Journalists in print and online media can submit one article published between 1 January 2007 and 10 June 2008
2008 Deadline: June 15
Comhar Sustainable Development Media Fund
Comhar, the Sustainable Development Council, is offering media organisations and journalists throughout Ireland an opportunity to secure funding of up to €2,000 for media projects focusing on sustainable development issues. The fund is open to all Irish media, including media students. Applications for print or broadcast projects are currently being accepted, as well as for photographic and new media projects.
2008 Deadline: June 20
The Ian Parry Scholarship
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died whilst on assignment for The Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years old. The scholarship was set up by his friends and family in order to build something positive from such a tragic death.
Each year a competition is held for photographers who are either attending a full-time photography course or are under the age of 24. Entrants must submit a portfolio of their work and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won the scholarship.
2008 Deadline: June 20
The Annual Lorenzo Natali Prize for journalism
The 2008 Lorenzo Natali Prize organised by the European Commission accepts entries from print and online journalists who have focused on human rights and democracy issues.
2008 Deadline: June 30
AIB Media Excellence Awards
The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) 2008 Media Excellence Awards are now open for entries.
2008 Deadline: June 30
Sundance Institute grants to support documentary films focused on contemporary social issues
The U.S.-based Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program will award up to $1.5 million and interested participants must submit a copy of their film dialogue transcript along with an application
2008 Deadline: July 7
Further journalism awards
BCI announces new media research funding scheme
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) has launched the Media Research Funding Scheme 2008, with the call for applications now open. Grants are available to those involved in media and broadcasting research in a variety of settings including; academic staff, freelance researchers, those involved in research in the broadcasting sector and those pursuing higher degrees (e.g. Masters/PhD) by research.
Deadline: July 10
Film Making Opportunities - Creative Media Partnerships cross border multimedia project
Calling all budding filmmakers. Do you have an interest in film and multi-media? Would your group like to make a short film or documentary? Is your group interested in the areas of Peace & Reconciliation, Culture Heritage and Diversity?
2008 Deadline: January 31
3 Smedias 2008
3 Student Media Awards
2008 Deadline: March 5
Northern Ireland Screen Low-Budget Funding Scheme
Northern Ireland Screen intends to finance one television drama or low-budget feature film to be produced between June 2008 and March 2009.
2008 Deadline: March 31
The International Journalists’ Network
The International Journalists’ Network (IJNet) provides information on numerous general journalism fellowships & awards world-wide.
One World Broadcasting Trust
Awards for work published or broadcast in the UK.
The International Women’s Media Foundation
Lists upcoming awards in its news section
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