Awards

This annual award recognizes excellent reporting that makes a difference in the lives of people around the world. Recipients are reporters, editors or others who, despite difficult circumstances, produce pioneering news reports or innovations that make a significant impact in their countries. Deadline: Feb 15, 2024.

The American Journalism Project, with support from the Google News Initiative, is launching this 18-month program to support entrepreneurs in launching a new nonprofit local news organization to serve their communities. $400,000 plus support for R&D and more. Info session on Jan 12. Application deadline is Feb 15, 2023.

Any teenage journalist anywhere in the world can profile someone who is helping to save the planet for Global Youth & News Media's new global storytelling competition. Two winners get $500 each plus coaching and publication by News Decoder. Deadline is March 1, 2023.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering story grants of US$1,500 to US$2,500 to journalists to produce stories on transnational conservation crimes in the Amazon Region and the threats faced by Indigenous peoples and local communities in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Deadline: Jan 8, 2024.

The Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund launched this grant in honor of murdered journalist Dom Phillips. Selected proposals for ambitious, wide-reaching journalism projects that investigate the future of the Amazon and how to prevent its collapse will receive the necessary funds to carry out their project. Deadline: Jan 18, 2023.

Journalismfund.eu's Earth Investigations Programme will award €115,000 for projects on collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism in Europe. Incorporated legal entities worldwide can apply. Next deadline: Oct 10, 2024.

To support the creative and informative works of BIPOC creators, the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) will award pitch training to finalists and $12,500 to one filmmaker to assist with a short film or first feature that addresses a timely environmental issue. Deadline: Jan 20, 2023.

This annual international competition and exhibition of the Natural History Museum in London, UK highlights the unique and beautiful relationship between photography, science and art. Includes a young photographer category. Win cash prizes, a place in the museum's exhibit and more. Deadline: Dec 7, 2023.

Flashlight, an innovative nonprofit network of giving circles, gives $500-$1,000 grants to investigative journalists, who retain complete editorial control and are free to publish their work wherever they like. In this round, they are funding U.S.-based freelance investigative journalists. Apply by Nov 19, 2023.