Apply now for the Reporters Without Borders Fellowship 2025, a unique and comprehensive fellowship program designed to support journalists from crisis areas who face significant digital security threats. This six-month fellowship offers a safe haven in Berlin, Germany, where selected journalists will receive in-depth digital security training, ensuring they can report without fear. The program is ideal for investigative journalists, bloggers, media professionals, and journalists exposed to digital risks such as hacking, surveillance, and doxing.
Name of Host Institution
Reporters Without Borders
Requirements, Benefits and Eligibility
The Berlin Fellowship offers stipend and accommodation for journalists, bloggers, and media professionals from crisis regions, providing essential support to continue their work. The fellowship includes networking opportunities with international media professionals and provides digital security training for journalists to protect themselves and their sources in increasingly hostile environments.
To be eligible for this Reporters Without Borders Fellowship, applicants must be:
- A professional journalist, blogger, media professional, or citizen journalist exposed to digital threats such as surveillance, hacking, or impersonation.
- Interested in learning about digital security and willing to pass on the knowledge gained during the fellowship to colleagues in their home regions. Preference is given to those who have experience in teaching or knowledge transfer.
- Able to fully commit to the program, with an expectation of 20 to 25 hours per week during the digital security training period.
This fellowship especially encourages investigative journalists working on critical issues such as the climate crisis, corruption, labor rights, and migration.
Why Choose the Berlin Fellowship?
The Reporters Without Borders Berlin Fellowship offers an invaluable opportunity for journalists to gain digital safety expertise while continuing their essential work. As part of this fellowship program in Berlin, participants will receive specialized training in digital security to protect themselves and their sources in a world where digital threats are increasingly common.
In addition to digital security training, journalists will benefit from stipend support, accommodation, and professional development opportunities, helping them to advance their investigative reporting in the face of digital challenges.
This fellowship for investigative journalists will allow you to enhance your digital security and network with other media professionals, ensuring your ability to report safely on pressing global issues like climate change, corruption, and migration.
Deadline for Applications
25th November 2024.
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