Conferences & Scholarships

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 — The Miles Morland Foundation (MMF) is offering the Morland Writing Scholarship to African writers working on fiction and nonfiction books. The scholarship aims to allow African writers the time to […]

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 6, 2023 — The Elevate Scholarship programme, supported by the Google News Initiative, is designed to strengthen the future of the news business. The scholarship is designed to accelerate learning for early- to […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 1, 2023— The Rhodes Scholarship is an international scholarship programme that enables outstanding students to study at the University of Oxford. The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully funded, full-time, postgraduate award for talented […]

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 — The Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) is offering scholarships to mid-career professionals to study in the Netherlands. Interested mid-career professionals must be from one of these countries: Bangladesh • Benin • […]

The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) is hosting the maiden edition of the West Africa Journalism Innovation Conference (WAJIC). CJID invites journalists and delegates from media organisations across West Africa to participate in […]

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) invites journalists to attend a hybrid conference to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. Journalists worldwide can attend the UNESCO conference which will hold at the UN […]

Media professionals can register for the 2023 Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum. The hybrid forum will hold in Bonn, Germany. Slated for June 19 to 20, the 2023 forum focuses on “Overcoming divisions” and […]

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2023— Journalists in developing or transitioning countries are eligible for fellowships to attend the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC). The investigative journalism conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from September 19 […]

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 30, 2022— The Michael Jacobs Travelogue Scholarship, which is in its ninth edition, was established to encourage travel writing. The scholarship for travel writing will reward a travel book or article project on […]