Journalist Assistance Funds and Grants

SAJA is partnering with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to help finance freelance projects covering the coronavirus outbreak and its impacts. Two grants, up to $2,500 each, to support freelance journalists facing financial hardship, in any medium.

The first funding initiative of its kind, enabling the IWMF to dramatically expand its support of women and non-binary journalists. Established with a $4 million gift, the Fund supports educational opportunities, investigative reporting, and media development initiatives.

Media organisations, journalist networks, universities and journalism institutions focusing on environmental reporting in the Asia and Pacific region are welcome to apply. $5,000–15,000 for a maximum duration of one year.

Provides opportunities for women journalists to pursue international stories of importance through gender-sensitive coverage of underreported topics. Grants average $5,000 USD.

Financial assistance to freelance journalists delivered through three funds — crisis fund, recovery fund, and trauma therapy fund — for professional freelance journalists working in news and current affairs.

Provides strings-free grants to eligible journalists to pursue a long-form story in any medium that is positive (enlightening) in nature about India or any of its sub-regions. Four grants a year of INR 3,00,000 each, distributed over six months.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is seeking applications for investigative data-driven projects on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women & girls, open to newsrooms and independent journalists worldwide.

Provides financial and administrative assistance to professional journalists and citizen-journalists who have been victims of reprisals because of their reporting — covering medical care, legal fees, safe relocation, and support for the families of affected journalists. In 2023 alone, RSF assisted 460 journalists across 62 countries.

The Committee to Protect Journalists dispenses emergency grants to journalists in distress worldwide, covering relocation expenses, medical costs, mental health support, and legal help following a serious incident connected to their work.

Offers Regular Grants up to $10,000 and Seed Funding up to $2,500 for preliminary reporting that can lead to full investigations, open to freelance journalists, staff reporters, and media outlets internationally.

Provides humanitarian assistance to journalists worldwide whose lives and wellbeing are threatened because of their work — covering legal fees, medical expenses, transportation to flee danger, family support, and resettlement costs.

Offers emergency financial grants for active freelance news journalists whose work and livelihoods have been put at risk — covering threats, violence, prosecution, exile, and illness connected to their reporting.