Earth Journalism Network Asia-Pacific Media Grants 2023

Applications are open for Earth Journalism Network Asia-Pacific Media Grants 2023. This round of grants is awarded as part of the Earth Journalism Network’s Asia-Pacific project, which aims to boost the quantity and quality of environmental coverage in the region and empower at-risk communities by informing them about environmental issues and amplifying their voices in the media. This project has received generous financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

Globally, unsustainable consumption and production patterns are fueling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. A ‘polycrisis’ that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned is humanity’s number one existential threat.

In the past three years, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed human vulnerability and provided a small glimpse to the destruction viral spillover can create, if preventive actions to address intensive farming, encroachment of natural habitats, wildlife trading, and other environmental root causes are not taken. It also underlines the urgency and importance of recognizing that the health and well-being of humans, animals, and their environments are intrinsically linked.

In this round of media grants, Earth Journalism Network is seeking innovative ideas from journalist networks, media organizations, civil society organizations, and academic institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific that would strengthen public awareness of the interconnection of human, animal, and environmental health, and the need for collaborative and multidisciplinary solutions to humanity’s biggest threats.

Internews initially developed the Earth Journalism Network (EJN) in 2004 to enable journalists from developing countries to cover the environment more effectively. Earth Journalism Network is now a truly global network working with reporters and media outlets in virtually every region. In our mission to improve the quantity and quality of environmental reporting, EJN trains journalists to cover a wide variety of issues develops innovative online environmental news sites and produces content for local media – including ground-breaking investigative reports. Earth Journalism Network also establish networks of environmental journalists in countries where they don’t exist and build their capacity where they do. Earth Journalism Network does so through workshops and the development of training materials and by offering Fellowship programs, grants to media organizations, story stipends, and support for story production and distribution.