Deadline: 3 October 2024
The Dialogue Journalism Fellowship is a unique journalism fellowship in the Arab region that focuses on the role of media in peacebuilding by using dialogue.
The Program aims at developing strategies and tools for promoting dialogue journalism and journalism’s ethics in reporting religions, ethnicities, and cultures in the Arab region throughout this fellowship and bringing together policymakers, religious leaders, and senior editors to promote ethical journalism and media during a regional Media Policy Forum. The one-year fellowship is offered to 20 journalists in the Arabic language in the following forms:
- Online mentorship sessions are held by senior trainers who are experts in their respective fields, such as dialogue, peace journalism, and conflict journalism.
- Three training workshops aim to train journalists on dialogical techniques to serve their contributions and interventions in peacebuilding and intercultural dialogue.
Funding Information
- Production of individual and joint initiatives to produce stories related to interfaith and intercultural dialogue supported by grants of up to 2,000 euros for each participant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Fellows must have at least five years of experience in journalism or other relevant fields. Any platform counts as a journalistic experience (print, podcast, digital).
- Fellows must be native to one of the mainly developing countries of the Arab Region.
- Fellows must currently live in and write for media in the Arab Region.
- Fellows must be between the ages of 28 and 40.
- Fellows must be currently employed as professional journalists for press, television, radio or electronic journalism organizations. Full-time and freelance journalists are invited to apply.
- Fellows should have an interest in interreligious dialogue and journalism, peacebuilding, and social cohesion.
For more information, visit International Dialogue Centre.
