The topics addressed must revolve around health and may relate, for example, to any of the following issues: trafficking of medicines, a health scandal, training of medical personnel, nosocomial infections, conflicts of interest, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, etc.
Candidates are free to choose their medium (article, video, radio report, etc.), with long formats, cross-border investigations and investigations focused on women and gender equality being of particular interest.
Candidates must obtain the consent of a media outlet that has undertaken to broadcast their production. The outlet may work in traditional or digital media. It must have a certain reputation and demonstrate an ability to make a real impact. The outlet must be based in one of the following countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon or Iraq.
Support at various stages
The selected candidates will attend three training sessions run by two investigative journalists specialising in health. Experts will also be involved in training the journalists in a range of investigative techniques.
CFI will contribute €2,000 towards the cost of producing the investigation.
Gender equality
CFI is committed to promoting gender equality in all its projects. As part of this commitment, in the MediaLab Investigation project:
_ Particular consideration will be given to investigation projects led by women.
_ Particular consideration will be given to investigation projects that focus on women’s health.
_ Preference will be given in the selection grid to letters from media outlets with a predominantly female audience.
_ Regardless of their topic or format, the proposed investigations must promote women’s rights and gender equality.
_ CFI will encourage journalists to fight the spread of stereotypes in the investigations produced in the course of the project.
Selection criteria
To apply for this project, you must:
• Be an investigative journalist with several published investigations to your name;
• Be a citizen of one of the targeted countries;
• Have a strong interest in health issues (no need to be an expert in the matter);
• Be available on the scheduled dates (January, April and July 2020) and commit to attending the three training sessions scheduled as part of the project;
• Commit to taking an active part in the remote supervision sessions with the two journalists responsible for overseeing the investigations;
• Provide a letter signed by a media outlet based in one of the targeted countries and including an undertaking to broadcast the production.
The content may be produced in either Arabic or French.
Documents to be provided:
• A selection of your published investigations
• A list of the tools you use in your investigations and your level of competence with each tool
• An outline of the proposed investigation (synopsis)
• A presentation of the media outlet that will broadcast the production
• Your CV
Timetable
After this call for projects closes, up to 8 investigations will be selected and supported in 2020. The investigations must be completed by September 2020 at the latest.
• Publication of the call for projects: 24 September 2019;
• Deadline for receipt of applications on the online platform: 27 October 2019;
• Assessment and selection of the investigations: early November 2019;
• Notification of the list of selected projects: mid-November 2019.
Questions
If you have any questions, please email your query in English or French to the following address: mtu@cfi.fr
The MediaLab Investigation project forms part of the “International Strategy for the French Language and Multilingualism”.
