If I had any doubt that AIR was worth the membership fee (which I didn't), I've been totally and thoroughly convinced. This rate guide and template agreement for podcasters is genius. Check it out. -Mia
http://airmedia.org/rateguideforpodcasts/
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from AIR – Grants, fellowships and awards for July and August
Join AIR for the complete list of grants, fellowships, and awards – one of the best resources out there for public media folks! -Mia
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• Dennis A. Hunt Health Journalism Fund
Deadline: July 12, 2015
Details: The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism provides grants of $2,500 to $10,000 for reporting on critical health issues facing underserved communities. Selection include participation in the all-expenses-paid National Health Journalism Fellowship, which provides a week of training in Los Angeles on community health issues. The Fund honors Dennis Hunt's legacy by providing financial support for ambitious investigative and explanatory journalism projects on community health and health policy issues. The fund is financed by memorial contributions from Hunt's friends and colleagues. The grant is designed to cover reporting and publishing- or broadcast-related costs such as travel, website development, database acquisition and analysis, environmental or health testing, translation services, and a journalist’s otherwise uncompensated time. Both freelancers and news outlet employees are eligible to apply.
Website: http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellowships/seminars/dennis-hunt-fund-health-journalism
• Society of Environmental Journalists Fund for Environmental Journalism
Deadline: July 15, 2015 (for the Summer Cycle)
SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism accepts applications for grants of up to $3,500 to help underwrite environmental reporting projects and entrepreneurial ventures.
Website: http://www.sej.org/initiatives/fund%20for%20environmental%20journalism/overview
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works Grants
Deadline: July 23, 2015
Details: Art Works support the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Grants generally range from $10,000 to $100,000.
Website: http://arts.gov/grants/apply-grant/grants-organizations
• Falling Walls Science Fellowship for Journalists
Deadline: July 31, 2015
Details: "In an effort to keep the public informed on life-changing scientific breakthroughs, we have created the Falling Walls Science Fellowship for Journalists. It is aimed at journalists and bloggers with at least three years of experience, and who hope to advance their knowledge in the area of sciences. The Fellows get the opportunity to attend the Falling Walls Lab, Falling Walls Venture and the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin on 8 and 9 November 2015 in Berlin. Freelance and full-time journalists or bloggers can apply. Professionals in fields such as research, teaching, public relations and advertising are not eligible. The applicants must have a minimum of three years professional journalism/blogging experience in which they have written about the subject of sciences."
Website: http://www.falling-walls.com/fellowships/science-journalists
• Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowship
Deadline: August 1, 2015
Details: The Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships (AFPF), an American non-profit, non-governmental organization, is a cultural and professional exchange program for journalists. Through AFPF, journalists and their readers gain a broader view of the world and journalism thereby creating mutual understanding and peaceful relations between Americans and people of other nations. Fellows return home with new journalistic skills and knowledge, and a desire to advance a free, responsible press in their own countries–without which democracy does not exist.
Website: http://www.presspartners.org/fellows/fellowship-opportunities/
• The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Deadline: August 3, 2015
Details: The core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program provides approximately 800 teaching and/or research grants to U.S. faculty and experienced professionals in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. Grants are available in over 125 countries worldwide.
Website: http://www.cies.org/program/core-fulbright-us-scholar-program
• Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellowship
Deadline: August 15, 2015
Details: CEI's Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellowship is a one-year fellowship that aims to provide journalists the opportunity to improve their knowledge of free markets principles and limited government through interaction with CEI policy experts.
Website: https://cei.org/warrenbrookes
Freelance opportunity from new podcast about the outdoors
A new podcast about the outdoors – Out There – wants your pitches. Details below! -Mia
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I host a podcast about the outdoors called Out There, and I'm looking for pitches. Features, essays, and short stories are all welcome. I'm looking for smart, engaging pieces that make you laugh, cry, and think about the world differently. They need to have something to do with the outdoors (yes, this can include the urban outdoors), and should be no longer than 30 minutes.
If you have an idea, I'd love to hear from you, and of course feel free to forward this to other reporters/writers who might be interested.
This is a new show, so my budget isn't huge, but there is some money on the table.
Here are some additional guidelines about submissions, for anyone who's interested.
Hope to hear from some of you!
Cheers,
-Willow
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Feet in 2 Worlds accepting applications for a food journalism workshop
Scholarships and travel stipends available for Food in 2 Worlds: A multimedia journalism workshop focused on food stories from immigrant communities. Application deadline Aug 1. Details below!
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Feet in 2 Worlds is accepting applications for a multimedia journalism workshop focused on food stories from immigrant communities. This intensive workshop (Oct. 16 – 18 at The New School in New York) is designed for journalists, journalism students and culinary professionals who want to tell compelling and insightful food stories from immigrant communities. Participants will learn basic skills in audio recording and production. Writing skills will also be emphasized. Each participant to leave the workshop with at least one fully produced multimedia story for the web and story pitches for future work vetted by a panel of editors and veteran journalists. Please check out the link and forward it to others who may be interested in applying.
Thanks,
John
JOHN RUDOLPH
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FEET IN 2 WORLDS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
FEET IN 2 WORLDS
ProPublica grants for aspiring journos of color
Grants from ProPublica for college-aged people of color who aspire to be great journalists. Yes!
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https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/item/college-journalist-of-color-apply-to-propublica-emerging-reporters-program
We are a nonprofit investigative newsroom and we’re offering stipends to five minority students who work or want to work at college journalism outlets – newspapers, websites, radio stations or TV stations. We want to make college journalism accessible to students for whom it would otherwise be economically out of reach. Students can apply for the stipends annually. Those selected will receive $4,500 per semester.
UnionDocs Podcast School in August, early bird registration deadline July 20
Podcasting crash course from UnionDocs – with some phenomenal instructors!! Details below. Registration deadline July 20. -Mia
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Coming up this summer! Early registration deadline is July 20th.
The Podcast School
From Wednesday August 26th to Sunday August 30th
Over the course of this five-day seminar, the students will learn from a team of seasoned guest speakers, thinkers and practitioners—public radio reporters, storytellers, sound artists, radio auteurs, podcasters, and media entrepreneurs. This intensive will consider a wide range of issues from audio storytelling, podcast production to radio communication, fundraising and advertisement. The seminar will also include one field trip, discussions, conceptual exercises, listening sessions and work-in-progress critiques.
Radio producers and hosts Anna Sale (Death, Sex & Money for WNYC), Al Letson (State of the Re:Union), Sean Cole (This American Life), Jonathan Mitchell (The Truth/Radiotopia), Andrea Silenzi (Slate's The Gist, Why Oh Why), Kaitlin Prest (The Heart/Radiotopia) and media entrepreneur Erik Diehn (Midroll). Tina Antolini (radio producer, host and creator of Gravy, a podcast with the Southern Foodways Alliance) will lead the course.
$750 – Early Bird Registration. Deposit received by July 20th at 5:00 PM.
$850 – Late Registration
To learn more about this workshop and register visit
http://www.uniondocs.org/podcast-school/
Grant Opportunity from PBS Black Culture Connection & Cowbird
Looks like a very cool opportunity from PBS Black Culture Connection & Cowbird. Details below!
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Wanted to let you know about a new grant opportunity lead by PBS Black Culture Connection & Cowbird.
We're seeking journalists and producers for a storytelling project that will explore photography and its role in social movements including Civil Rights, Black Power, LGBT and #BlackLivesMatter. We aim to go "behind the lens" of their photos to capture personal, lesser-told stories of the photographers, their images, and the events that changed–– and are still changing–– history.
Please feel free to reach me for any questions. We'd love your help spreading the word to friends who you think may be interested.
Thanks!
Schuyler
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Late Summer Podcasting Workshop at UnionDocs in NYC
Learn to podcast from some of the best podcasters out there. At Brooklyn's UnionDocs from 8/26-30. Details below!
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UnionDocs is running a 5-day-long workshop on podcasting at the end of the summer. It'll feature sessions from superstar podcasters/radio producers Anna Sale of Death, Sex & Money, Sean Cole from This American Life, Kaitlin Prest of The Heart, Jonathan Mitchell from The Truth, Andrea Silenzi from The Gist and Why Oh Why, Al Letson from Reveal and SOTRU, and Erik Diehn from Midroll… Oh, and me, from Gravy.
The workshop will be held Wednesday, August 26th through Sunday, the 30th at UnionDocs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each day we'll go from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
You can find more info and sign up here: http://www.uniondocs.org/podcast-school/
Best,
Tina
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Tina Antolini
Host and Producer, Gravy
www.southernfoodways.org
IRP reporting trip to Ecuador, Oct 18-29, application deadline Aug 7
IRP wants to help you get to Ecuador. Application deadline Aug 7. Details below.
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The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a group reporting trip focusing on health and development issues in Ecuador on October 18-29, 2015.
Ecuador, a country of nearly 16 million, has made major strides in healthcare and development, including dramatic improvements in healthcare efficiency.
Yet many challenges remain. There are discrepancies between the quality of care and resources available at public and private facilities. Residents of rural areas may not receive the resources available in urban centers, and neglected tropical diseases persist.
Fellows on the twelve-day reporting trip will examine a range of issues related to health and development in Ecuador. We will focus on topics of nutrition and agriculture, education, access to roads and electricity, sanitation and water, the impact of infectious and neglected diseases, reduction of poverty, increased use of technology, gender equality and the status of indigenous peoples and migrants. Fellows will meet with key government leaders, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, members of the business community, religious and media leaders and others.
How to Apply
All candidates must complete an application form and provide a detailed essay of at least 800 words describing the types of stories they might pursue.
Participants will be expected to post frequent stories – such as articles, blog posts, infographics, interactive stories, slideshows, social media posts, video and audio clips – before, during and after the trip.
The Ecuador trip is open to innovative journalists, bloggers, influential social media practitioners, and other media professionals. Unfortunately, this trip is not open to students.
Priority will be given to applications from citizens or residents of Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.
More Details
The IRP will purchase the fellows’ roundtrip air tickets to Ecuador and will pay for visas, hotel costs, local transportation and several meals. Fellows who wish to extend their stay after the fellowship will have the option to arrange that at their own expense.
All fellows on the Ecuador trip are required to participate in the sessions arranged for the group program. Much of the value of a group reporting trip comes from both meetings that IRP arranges and the interactions the fellows have with each other. Some independent reporting time will be included in the schedule. However, if you prefer to have more flexibility in your reporting schedule, we strongly encourage you to extend your trip or to apply for our individual reporting fellowships in the future.
All of the stories will be republished on the IRP site and co-owned by the fellow (or her/his distribution partners, depending on arrangements) and the IRP. In addition, the work produced as a result of the trip may be posted, with permission of the fellow, on the social media channels of the IRP funders. This trip is supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read our frequently asked questions and apply for the Ecuador trip by midnight (EST) on August 7, 2015!
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Looking for producers for archival audio podcast
From the good people at Pop Up Archive.
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Hi radio people!
Pop Up Archive is looking for freelancers to work on our new podcast, Popcast. (If you're on the radiogines list, apologies for the repeat email.)
Popcast tells tiny stories about the past, resurfacing archival audio and reinterpreting it. Past episodes include a posthumous astrological reading of Sylvia Plath, and the tale of a psychobilly song that astronauts banned from NASA shuttle missions. You can listen to the six episodes of the first season here: https://soundcloud.com/popuparchive
We made the first season with Eliza Smith, who is now full time at Snap Judgment, so we’re looking to open up the show to all archive-loving producers. Most stories will be in the 4-7 minute range, to be released over the summer (and beyond, we hope). The pieces are straightforward to create: they feature archival clips with some light narration and sound design. And we'll pay you!
If you’re interested in making a story for Popcast, shoot me an email at emily@popuparchive explaining why you’re interested, and include a link to your previous work. If you have a piece of archival audio in mind (check out popuparchive.com/search for inspiration), feel free to suggest it. I also work with producers to help them find content in the archive.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Emily