Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2024 for Activists & Investigative Journalists (non-residential paid fellowship)

This informs the public about the Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2024 for Activists & Investigative Journalists. Details about the Program are given below.

Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2023

About Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2023

The 2024 Bertha Challenge invites investigative journalists and activists working towards effectively exposing and counteracting the combined effect of disinformation and corruption on the climate crisis to apply for this unique Fellowship.

Program Details

This Fellowship seeks to expose and explore who is responsible for the spread of unquantifiable amounts of climate disinformation and to expose how that disinformation is used in the interests of corporations and politicians with an agenda tied to corporate profit.

The effects and scale of disinformation are ubiquitous. Alongside the crumbling of solid local journalism outlets with fact-based reporting and the rise of propagandized and corporatized media channels, it has led to a deep crisis of confidence in all of our news sources. The distrust is so baked into politics and news, the World Values Survey1 recently found that only 26% of Americans and 13% of Britons trust the press.

Benefit

Our Fellowships offer:

  • Income for each Bertha Fellow for one year, not exceeding USD $64,900 and commensurate with the applicant’s current or equivalent salary at the host organization – ideally a media outlet for an investigative journalist and an NGO, community organization or social movement for an activist
  • A Project Fund of up to USD $10,000 for each Bertha Fellow to produce a culminating product that responds to the question posed by the Bertha Challenge, and that is directed towards a specific audience. This could be a series of articles, videos, podcasts, games or drama productions, for example. Joint activist and journalist applicants will have the option to pool their project funding to produce projects on a larger scale
  • Access to a Connect Fund of up to USD $5,000 specifically designed to encourage collaboration between Fellows
  • Regular online discussions with topics on a range of issues from current debates around the Bertha Challenge question to methods of investigation, methods of communicating findings through news media, storytelling, popular education and more
  • Peer and mentor support in the form of regular virtual check-ins with Bertha staff and a cohort of Bertha Fellows
  • Network development through the global cohort of Bertha Fellows and exposure to relevant partners within and beyond the Bertha network
  • A global convening of Bertha Fellows at the start of the Bertha Challenge.

Eligibility

  • At least five years’ experience working with activists, social movements, grassroots and community organizations, social justice organizations or campaigns
  • Strong connections to a diverse range of relevant groups in the Fellow’s city, country or region, including with social movements, community organizations, NGOs, academics, journalists, progressive government officials etc.
  • Experience developing organizing tools or popular educational products and materials, for example training courses, publications, pamphlets, films, podcasts, arts, theater productions, etc.
  • Experience using research, media and the law in advocacy
  • Affiliation to an appropriate host organization to amplify work produced during the Bertha Challenge.

Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2023 Application

For those interested in Enterprising Futures Scholarship 2023. Open this link to start the application process.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 4 July 2023.

Open this link for more details about the Bertha Foundation Challenge Fellowships 2023.

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