CONNECTAS Fellowship Program for Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean

They are looking for proposals that thoroughly expose cases of corruption, misuse of public resources, organized crime, human rights violations, abuse of power against vulnerable groups or crimes against the environment and that have a high impact.

What will the winners get?

• Editorial Support
  • The selected proposals will be developed under the Editorial Alliance with CONNECTAS. You will receive personalized support from an editor from the Editorial Board, who will accompany you from the beginning of the project until its publication.
• Resources
  • If your proposal is selected, you will receive funds of $1,000 and $3,000 to cover research expenses and journalistic team fees.
• Regional Dissemination
  • Your work will be published in CONNECTAS, the main platform that promotes collaborative journalism in Latin America, and allied media of the Information Community.
• Journalistic Community
  • Once you publish your work, you can be part of the CONNECTAS Journalism Community, #CONNECTASHub , made up of colleagues from all over Latin America and the Caribbean.

What kind of stories are they looking for?

• Revealing stories that add value to the knowledge of a social phenomenon of national and regional importance. This implies reports with new and attractive information, helping to understand complex topics, not a more complete account of already known facts.
• Ideally, they expect stories that reveal abuses by agents of power (political or economic) and that expose structural problems in society, rather than isolated cases. They also value positively if they expose the violation of the rights of vulnerable social groups.

Eligibility Criteria

• Be a practicing journalist in media or independent media, with a minimum of three years’ proven experience.
• Residing in a country in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• The application must include links to recent publications, preferably to research, in-depth work or reports.
• The proposal must be in Spanish.

Conditions

• Those admitted will have editorial freedom over their story. They must participate in the pedagogical editorial support process in which they will receive continuous feedback on their research.
• Those proposals that provide guarantees of prior reporting and knowledge of the subject will be considered with special interest; that have a strong investigative component, social impact and novelty; and that they propose a collaboration between journalists.
• Those selected will accept the terms of republication of the research material, editorial support, security conditions under which the topics are followed up, and preparations for the final dissemination.
• Proposals can be presented individually or as a team.
• All publications must include audiovisual, multimedia or storytelling elements, carried out by the work team.
• The proposals will have a period of four months to be carried out.

For more information, visit CONNECTAS.