Deadline: 30 April 2024
Video journalists: Are you interested in capturing climate change footage? In Old News and Earth Journalism Network (EJN) are offering journalists 500-1000 USD to document the impacts of and solutions to climate change including sea level rise, glacier lakes, impacts of extreme weather, mangroves, renewable energy, polluting industries, reforestation and more.
They’re looking for journalists to help them build a library of free-to-use Creative Commons footage that documents the impacts of and solutions to climate change.
Which stories video journalists tell often depends on what footage they can record or source. But shrinking newsroom budgets have made it harder for journalists to go to the field. And this has major implications for how global issues like climate change are portrayed in the media.
The project will help diversify the pool of footage that journalists can use when working on videos about climate change and the environment. Thanks to support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network and The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), they’re excited to extend this opportunity to more than 10 journalists from Asia Pacific and beyond.
They are looking for journalists who are ready to document a wide variety of video clips that illustrate the impacts of and solutions to climate change.
Preference will be given to journalists who are documenting their own communities, and who are based in the Asia Pacific region. But they are open to pitches from other countries too.
Funding Information
- Journalists will be able to request between USD 500-1000, depending on the resources they would need for the shoot and the number of varied clips they will produce.
Project Deliverables
- Selected journalists will be tasked with Preference will be given to journalists who indicate that they will be able to document a wide variety of shots and relevant context.
- Each clip will have to be 15-20 seconds long.
- Each clip should be an uncut shot of a frame that illustrates the problem or solution related to climate change you are trying to communicate.
- They need at least 25 distinct clips (that get final approval from them). They can all be about the same topic from the same location or as many topics/locations as you’d like.
- In order to get approved, the shot will have to be still/stable, have good exposure and focus, and be at least 1080p with at least 8-bit depth.
Eligibility Criteria
- This opportunity is open to all journalists. They will select at least 10 journalists for this project. While preference will be given for footage from the Asia Pacific region, they are open to pitches from other parts of the world as well.
- In Old News uses English as the primary language of communication, but journalists comfortable with communicating through tools like Google Translate are welcome to apply. The team is also able to communicate in Bangla, Hindi, Telugu, French or Spanish.
- They are open to receiving applications from journalists who don’t have video experience. But they will need to see some video recording samples, even if it’s shot on a phone. So instead of published links, journalists can send some samples of video recordings around their locality.
For more information, visit In Old News.
