Awards and Grants

Enter your feature-length film or short to Double Exposure in Washington, DC, Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2025, which celebrates the finest new films inspired by the investigative instinct. Deadlines: July 7 (early bird); Sep 8 (regular).

EurekAlert! provides travel funding and support to early-career science, technology and health journalists from low- and middle-income countries to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting. The 2026 Meeting takes place in Phoenix, AZ, February 12-14. Apply by May 12, 2025. 

The South Asian Journalists Association offers scholarships to help students afford tuition and other costs associated with higher education to pursue their journalism degree. In 2025, up to $30,000 will be distributed among up to six students in the US or Canada. Deadline: May 16, 2025.

This award, a program of the High Desert Museum in Oregon, celebrates proposals for outstanding literary nonfiction dedicated to the literal and figurative exploration of desert landscapes. $3,000 prize and reading/reception in September 2025. Enter by May 1.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering grants to support projects that strengthen reporting on biodiversity issues. Media organizations in countries classified as either low- or middle-income by the World Bank are eligible to apply for this opportunity. Deadline: Mar 30, 2025.

This annual contest is for writers who have not published a major work of fiction or narrative nonfiction on topics of wilderness, wildness or the ethics and ecology of environmental issues. $3,000 for the first-place essay selection and $1,000 for a runner-up. Deadline: Mar 15, 2026.

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering grants to support in-depth reporting on the marine environment in the Adriatic region, as well as solutions to the climate and environmental threats confronting this ecosystem. Deadline: Feb 27, 2025.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering two media grants of US$10,000 each to newsrooms and media organizations in coastal countries to support in-depth and enterprise reporting projects on 30x30 marine conservation targets. Apply by Feb 7, 2025.

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is offering 15-20 story grants of up to US$2000 each to support the production of in-depth solutions-focused media reports on environmental and climate challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. Apply by Feb 3, 2025.

The World Justice Project’s Anthony Lewis Prize honors journalists around the world who advance the rule of law. The next winner of the $10,000 prize will be celebrated at World Justice Forum 2025: Standing Up for the Rule of Law, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, June 23-26. Deadline: Mar 2.