Reporting Global Challenges
At a time when many media organisations face financial constraints, the grant programme aims to encourage journalists, newsrooms and media houses to go beyond their usual reporting approaches and thus set a new and distinctive agenda for development and global health coverage.
- €6.5 million Awarded from 2013 to 2020
- +200 Projects funded
- +350 Grantees
- +200 Media partners
- +50 Awards won
European Development Journalism Grants
We support long term reporting on global development challenges.
Open to influential media organisations in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom€120,000 /Avg
Deadline for applications: 8 February 2021 (deadline extended from 18 January)
Global Health Journalism Grant for Germany
Stipends awarded to freelancers and journalists on staff for in-depth journalistic research on global health, health policy and development related issues published in German media.
Open to German freelancers and journalists on staff€15,000 /Avg
Applications are now closed
Global Health Journalism Grant for France
Stipends awarded to freelancers and journalists on staff for in-depth journalistic research on global health, health policy and development related issues published in French media.
Open to French freelancers and journalists on staff€15,000 /Avg
Applications are now closed
Innovation in Development Reporting Grant
Awarded reporting grants for productions of out-of-the-box stories on international development topics by journalists and media organisations
Open to journalists and media organisations€20,000 /Avg
Applications are now closed
The EJC global health reporting grant came right in time – a time when quality oriented (health) journalism seemed to be no longer affordable for many outlets in and beyond Germany. Having been supported three times in a row gave me the unique opportunity to focus on pressing global health challenges and do in depth research on topics like aging populations, culturally triggered genetic disorders and mental health issues in low income settings. Nowadays being given the time to truly investigate stories was a pure luxury for me – even though it shouldn’t be that way
The EJC has given me the time and resources to do two investigations that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Now people know that blood samples collected during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa have been exported all over the world. This started a global discussion.
The Publisher Grant was a catalyst for As Equals, CNN’s series on gender inequality. Its support meant we could focus on the least developed parts of the world and gave us the scope to go big on a single issue and produce ambitious pieces of impactful visual storytelling.
How to feed 10 billion people in 2050? Big questions like this one tend to be overlooked in a newsroom where there's always a deadline in sight. The EJC funding enabled us to take a step back, create a dedicated platform and really delve deep into this question that will change our lives drastically in the coming decades