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National Geographic Society launches COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists

National Geographic Society launches COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists

Deadline: Ongoing

The National Geographic Society has launched an emergency fund for journalists all over the world who wish to cover COVID-19 within their own communities.

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This fund will place particular emphasis on delivering news to underserved populations, particularly where there is a dearth of evidence-based information getting to those who need it.

The National Geographic Society is interested in local and even hyper-local distribution models. This fund is designed to quickly deliver support so that both individual stories and longer series of content may be created.

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Beyond reporting on medical and physical health related to COVID-19, they especially encourage reporting that covers social, emotional, economic, and equity issues. Narratives around the Pandemic necessarily include facts and numbers, but ultimately, must also go deeper—telling the stories of inequities that COVID-19 has brought to light.

Reporting may cover any aspect of the virus and its fallout, including but not limited to:

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Social consequences of COVID-19 and measures to contain it, particularly related to equity—such as its impact on immigrant communities, domestic violence, and early childhood education.
Stories of resilience and solutions that could be applied on a regional or global scale.
Novel forms of data visualization or science communication to help communities better understand how to protect themselves.
Lessons learned from local response(s) to COVID-19 that could be applied to other large-scale challenges, such as climate change or the refugee crisis.
Best practices of how educators, students, and schools are reacting to this crisis, particularly as they illuminate under-resourced schools.
Priority communities include: Those at high risk or hit especially hard by the virus, indigenous communities, immigrant or refugee communities, underserved, urban, rural, elderly populations, and children.

Funding Information

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The fund will distribute support ranging from $1,000–8,000 USD for local coverage of the preparation, response, and impact of this global pandemic as seen through evidence-based reporting.

Eligibility Criteria

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The National Geographic Society seeks writers, photographers, videographers, audio journalists, cartographers, filmmakers, and data visualization experts to apply for this funding.
Applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time they submit an application.
Journalists should seek placement of this work within their local media ecosystems and must attribute their support to the National Geographic Society’s Emergency Fund for Journalists.
National Geographic Society or National Geographic Partners may also choose to publish some of this work as part of its global coverage.
Applicants may use up to 100 percent of their budget as personal reimbursement for their reporting time. National Geographic Society asks that applicants estimate their standard fee for reporting on or creating such content.
For more information, visit https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/what-we-fund/covid-19-emergency-fund/

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