Deadline: 14 July 2024
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is inviting candidates from the Americas (US, Canada, Latin America & The Caribbean) to apply for a “training of trainers” opportunity to learn how they can prepare and run their own community workshops to tackle disinformation.
This initiative is part of Disarming Disinformation, a three-year global project run by ICFJ with lead funding from the Scripps Howard Fund.
The online course will cover a wide range of essential topics such as news literacy, media and information literacy, seven types of mis- and disinformation and fact-checking tools.
Ten grantees will be announced by early August and will be invited to attend the in-person “training of trainers” session, which will take place in Buenos Aires, from August 26 to 28. These sessions will be run by MediaWise, in collaboration with Chequeado. The participants will also have the chance to stay in town to attend Media Party (Aug 29-31), one of the biggest journalism conferences in the region.
After the training, grantees will return to their countries where they will be expected to develop and organize their own workshops for at least 100 people before the end of April 2025.
Funding Information
- After the online course, ten applicants will be selected to attend an in-person training and will receive a $4,000 grant to conduct their own community workshops.
Eligibility Criteria
- If applying for a grant, keep in mind that candidates must:
- Attend the initial four-hour online training on July 17-18.
- Attend the in-person training in Buenos Aires from August 26 to 28.
- Develop and execute their own trainings before April 2025.
- Have a minimum set of previous knowledge on disinformation issues. It is not mandatory to be a journalist, but successful candidates need to be in a trusted position in their communities in order to create the environment needed to impact trainees.
- Although journalists and journalism students can be the intended audience of your training, they strongly value applications that target other, diverse sets of audiences. In the first year of the program, the audience of successful applications included: nurses, doctors, refugees, homemakers, indigenous groups and others.
For more information, visit ICFJ.
