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  • DEADLINE: World Press Photo Contest

    "The annual World Press Photo Contest recognizes and celebrates the best photojournalism and documentary photography produced over the last year. Entering is free and prizes include up to €10,000, inclusion in our annual traveling exhibition, and more. Entries for the 2026 World Press Photo Contest will open on 1 December 2025 and close on 17 January

  • ComSciCon-Triangle 2026

    "ComSciCon-Triangle 2026 will take place on Saturdays January 17 and January 24, 2026 at the BioLabs NC in Durham, N.C., featuring speakers, panelists and multimedia experts. Attendees can expect a

  • DEADLINE: MegaCities-ShortDocs Film Festival

    "Do you live in an urban environment? Can you shoot a 4-minute documentary? Do you want to inspire people around the world to make the change happening? "Show a challenge in your city and solutions or ideas of new initiatives that could tackle such issues. For inspiration and subject ideas, take a look at the

  • DEADLINE: NPPA Best of Photojournalism

    "Photojournalists bear witness to history on a daily basis. They stand on the sidewalks and sit in the living rooms of neighborhoods internationally with a shared mission to inform the public. Through well-researched stories and the documentation of life events, audiences rely on these journalists to ethically inform them of what is happening in their

  • DEADLINE: RJI Pictures of the Year International Competition

    "Pictures of the Year International began as a photographic contest in 1944 by Cliff Edom at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. ... POY is an educational program. Connecting students and the public with the curated work in POY shows the value of photojournalism and allows people to interpret the news and historic

  • JournalismFund.eu Introductory Webinar: Expert-Reviewed Journalism for Cross-Border Grants

    "Journalismfund Europe announces the re-launch of the European Cross-Border Grants with a new expert approach. The project will encourage journalists to take a more scientific and methodical approach to their investigations, ultimately improving their ability to inform the public more effectively. It will also provide management training to twenty selected small and medium-sized media companies.

  • DEADLINE: NFPW Professional Communications Contest

    "The NFPW National Communications Contest is open to writers regardless of gender, professional status, or location." Categories include writing, editing, photography, web and social media, and more. Entrants apply at the state level to affiliate organizations in their state; first-place winners from the state-level contest then move to the national level. Work must be published

  • DEADLINE: Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism

    "The $20,000 Worth Bingham Prize honors investigative reporting of stories of national significance where the public interest is being ill-served. "These stories may involve state, local or national government, lobbyists or the press itself, wherever an “atmosphere of easy tolerance” exists, as journalist Worth Bingham himself once described public misconduct in his reporting on the

  • AHCJ Webinar: Building Audience With Local Climate-Health Stories

    "Climate change is often covered as a vast, global crisis, defined by melting ice sheets, stalled international agreements and the persistent grip of fossil fuels. What gets far less attention are the local stories unfolding across the country: clinics adapting to wildfire, counties redesigning emergency response plans for extreme heat, public health responses to vector-borne

  • DEADLINE: Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism In Europe

    "Journalismfund.eu's Earth Investigations Programme in 2025/2026 will award €75,000 (per call) in Professional Development Grants for Environmental Journalism for projects on collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. "Any incorporated legal entity can apply. Applying entities do not necessarily need to be based in Europe. However, the proposed project should

  • DEADLINE: Investigation Grants for Environmental Journalism in Europe

    "This Journalismfund.eu's Environmental Investigative Journalism programme supports cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets investigating illegal, unreported, and unregulated environmental issues linked to European interests, both within and beyond Europe. "Supported investigations must result in publications in at least two media outlets based in different countries, with at least one "being a European outlet

  • DEADLINE: Journalismfund.eu FPD Science Grants

    "With this project Journalismfund wants to stimulate in-depth science journalism in Dutch-language media in Belgium. The programme offers grants to science journalists to work on projects that have great newsworthiness and depth but that cannot be realised in regular media. The projects should be original, innovative and time-consuming and must involve investigative reporting on science and