Please note that all fellowships have been awarded. If you have not received notice, you unfortunately did not receive one. The program had a record number of applicants this year — nearly 1800 — and it was impossible to bring all the qualified candidates.
GIJN will host future conferences and offer fellowships to attend them. To stay informed about new opportunities, be sure to subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter. Thanks for your interest!
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) is the premier international gathering of investigative and data journalists, held once every two years. This year, the 11th conference will be held in Hamburg, Germany, from September 26 to 29, and is being co-hosted by the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Netzwerk Recherche and Interlink Academy.
GIJC19 will feature over 150 exciting panels, workshops, and networking sessions, ranging from cross-border collaboration and corruption to advanced data analysis. We will have special tracks on documentaries, sustainability strategies, safety and security, and more. Here’s a chance to learn from the best in the field and enhance your skills with the latest tips and tools.
With the support of our sponsors, the conference is offering more than 200 fellowships to both established and young promising journalists in developing and transitioning countries, and for journalists from specific communities such as indigenous peoples, to participate in this prestigious event. Competition is keen so you need to convince us that you will make great use of the training GIJC19 offers.
To stay up-to-date on the fellowships, the global conference, and other opportunities from GIJN, you can subscribe to the GIJN Bulletin.
Eligibility
+ Open to full-time print, online, television, video, radio, documentary and multimedia journalists in developing or transitioning countries;
+ Experience in investigative or data journalism a plus;
+ Special categories for journalists from indigenous communities, citizen investigators, and journalists exiled from their homelands;
+ Sorry, Western journalists based overseas are not eligible.
Fellowship Requirement
Following the conference, fellows are required to either produce a story directly related to #GIJC19 or give a presentation of the knowledge you have gained at #GIJC19 in your home country to other colleagues or the journalism community at-large. Examples here.
GIJC19 Fellowship Includes
+ Round-trip airfare to Hamburg, Germany
+ Hotel room for four nights
+ Transport between Hamburg airport and the conference hotel
+ Breakfast and lunch on conference days
+ Award ceremony banquet dinner
+ Conference fee
NOTE: The fellowship does not include a per diem, visa fees, or transport to and from your home country airport. This is a training conference, and fellows are expected to pay for these costs.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 5, 2019. Successful fellows will be notified via email by June 30, 2019.
This is good Development to our country.
This a good development it will change African narratives in the global media land scape
Attended the event in Johannesburg and can’t wait to attend this one
The conference will play an important role in journalism. It is necessary to organize such a conference in Bangladesh like development in Bangladesh.
Team,
I am a freelance investigative reporter, photographer looking forward to attend this conference. I have posting on this forum seeking some leads to avail a fellowship (I know full fellowships are CLOSED). However, kindly advise other open opportunities. Thank you
Dear Reghavendra,
Yes, you have missed the deadline to apply for a conference fellowship. We received nearly 1800 applications from around the world. We appreciate that you still want to join us. You will have to find sponsorship elsewhere. We suggest you try Western embassies, which might have exchange or foreign education programs, international assistance programs, and foundations. Hope you can find a way to join us. Best of luck!
I have applied for the GIJN Conference fellowship. I have great passion and hope to be given a chance. When will we be notified about the decisions made by the panel. I really need a chance as i am a veteran in this field. But when will be the notification date.
Gitonga Njeru
Dear Charles,
We are still reviewing the fellowship applications now and all successful fellows will be notified by June 30, 2019.
Best,
Eunice Au
GIJN Program Coordinator
Ok. Thanks you for your feedback.
Hope this fellowship will not have any discrimination and experienced Journalists should be given a chance. Especially those who have never gotten the opportunity. Hope no racism or other form of bias
Jonathan — Our fellowships are designed to bring in as diverse a group as possible. They are set up for journalists from developing and transitioning countries, with particular attention to those who have never attended our conferences before. Our last conference hosted journalists from 130 countries — including 30 African states — and was nearly half women. Here’s GIJN’s non-discrimination policy, which we take very seriously: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LOwhkisQbmC8v91W35q3o5mPLJzdW7sZ/view
I have applied for the GIJN Conference fellowship. When will we be notified about the decisions made by the panel？
Dear Wang,
We received a record number of 1773 applications so we are still in the process of fellows selection. All successful applicants will be notified by June 30, 2019. If you do not hear from us by that date, it would mean you were unsuccessful.
Best,
GIJN
Will GIJN also publish the list of fellowship recipients on this website?
Best,
No, fellows will be informed by email by June 30, 2019. If you do not hear from us by that date, it would mean you were unsuccessful. Good luck!
The predicament a journalist faces while indulging in investigative reporting is what to write, and what to leave, out of the gamut of information he has gathered during the process of nosing around; and this is precisely why GIJN Conference is significant. I have so far not heard from GIJN and am greatly disappointed as I wanted to learn, and subsequently impart training. I am still keeping my fingers crossed.
Have you informed everyone??
Please note that all fellowships have now been awarded. If you have not received notice, you unfortunately did not receive one. The program had a record number of applicants this year — nearly 1800 — and it was impossible to bring all the qualified candidates.
GIJN will host future conferences and offer fellowships to attend them. To stay informed about new opportunities, be sure to subscribe to our fortnightly newsletter. Thanks for your interest!
When will you announce the next conference?
Here you go: https://gijn.org/2020/06/23/sydney-selected-as-site-of-2021-global-investigative-journalism-conference/
Fellowships will not be offered until 2021. You can keep track through our newsletter.