Investigative Journalism Training Program in the Baltics

Funding Opportunity Number: DOSLH-15-CA-001-EUR-150730 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: EducationCFDA Number: 19.040Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher educationNonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher educationPrivate institutions of higher educationAgency Name: DOS-LTUClosing Date: Aug 31, 2015Award Ceiling: $500,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Aug 20, 2015Funding Opportunity Description: The U.S. Embassies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia aim to offer a 12-month innovative, multi-phased investigative journalism training program for early and mid-career journalists working in the Baltic states, who report in local languages or Russian. Media organizations in all three countries need the skills and tools to produce fact-based, credible news reporting. The program will build a more mature, independent, and proactive 21st century media landscape in all three countries. While the program will include journalists from all three Baltic states and all three U.S. Embassies will take part in the planning and coordination, U.S. Embassy Vilnius is overseeing this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY (NOFO). The ideal program will include in-country training/workshops in all three countries, cash reporting awards for journalists with realistic investigative reporting project ideas an...
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