Award Name/Title: INDIGENOUS REPORTERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Amount: Four Awards of $4,500
Application Status: Closed
Application Due Date: November 17, 2014
Awards Details:
JOURNALISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (JHR)
INDIGENOUS REPORTERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Fall 2014 Scholarships
Four (4) scholarships available at $4,500 each
Eligible to Indigenous students currently enrolled in a post-secondary media program at a Canadian institution
Deadline to apply: November 17, 2014
Website: www.jhr.ca
About JHR:
Journalist for Human Rights (JHR) is Canada’s leading media development organization. Through skills training and mentorship, JHR empowers journalists to report ethically and effectively on local human rights issues that would otherwise be ignored and unaddressed. Since 2002 JHR has trained over 12,500 journalists in 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
In 2013, JHR launched its first project in Canada, The Northern Ontario Initiative. The project worked in remote Aboriginal reserve communities across Ontario training Aboriginal People to report on, and from, their own communities. It also connected them to interested editors and news directors and taught them how to sell their freelance work to mainstream media outlets. The objective of this project was to build relationships between the Aboriginal community and media outlets to create greater awareness of Aboriginal culture, people, and issues amongst non-Aboriginal Canadians by allowing Aboriginal people to actively contribute to the public conversation in Canada.
About the Indigenous Reporters Program:
In 2014, JHR has launched the Indigenous Reporters Program. This program aims to ensure young, Indigenous media students will have the opportunity to be supported throughout their journey to becoming established Canadian journalists. Overall, Indigenous People make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, yet Indigenous journalists make up far less than 1 per cent of the employed media population. A large portion of the Indigenous Reporters Program is giving out scholarships for Indigenous students to attend post-secondary school and study journalism and thus further their journalism ambitions. One of the main objectives of the program is to better build the professional capacity of Indigenous People pursuing careers in media, and to support the media sector in developing job opportunities and economic incentives for those people.
To apply for one of the four scholarships for the Fall 2014 semester, please send:
a one to two page letter of intent outlining who you are, what community you are from, what school and program you are enrolled in, why you are studying media, and what your career goals are;
at least one reference letter;
a copy of your transcript;
and proof of enrollment
Send to, by November 17, 2014:
Chris Kornacki, Program Coordinator
Indigenous Reporters Program
Or mail to:
620 Victoria Ave. East
VictoriaVille Suite 202
Thunder Bay, ON P7B 1A9
No application form to be downloaded.