- Grant Amount –up to £5,000
- Deadline – August 20, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Are you a Nigerian journalist passionate about making complex climate issues accessible and relevant to your community? One World Media, in partnership with Surge Africa, is thrilled to launch a new opportunity as part of The £5,000 Climate Reporting Gap Initiative.
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Across Nigeria, the impacts of climate change are increasingly visible — from rising heat and water scarcity to the complexities of the energy transition. Yet, local stories that connect these challenges to people’s daily lives often remain underreported. That’s where the Climate Reporting Gap Fellowship comes in.
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This new initiative will support six Nigerian journalists to report original stories on climate finance and energy transition through inclusive, data-driven and community-centred reporting. Whether you’re drawn to print, audio, video, or multimedia reporting, this Fellowship is designed to enable you to produce compelling, solutions-focused journalism that resonates at the local and regional level.
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They’re looking for stories on climate change and energy transition in Nigeria, and in the region. This includes stories on transition minerals, mining of these minerals, energy access and diplomacy, covered with a sense of accountability, credibility, and urgency. Stories can examine the economic landscape from the lens of phasing out of fossil fuels, governance of transition minerals, decentralizing energy systems, eradicating energy, poverty, and building structures to enable transition to take root.
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Benefits
- Up to £5k funding for their reporting
- One-to-one mentoring
- In-depth training, in person and online
- Industry workshops, including safety, impact, and pitching
- Training trip to Colombia, South America
- Global promotion of all media pieces by project partners
- Membership of the OWM global alumni network
Eligibility:
- Journalists and filmmakers from Nigeria, and reporting in Nigeria.
- They’re looking for mid-career and experienced applicants, with at least 3-5 years-experience in their field.
- Applicants don’t need to have a background in climate finance, but an interest in telling stories about the climate crisis and energy transitions, and a strong background in journalism and/or their chosen medium.
- They’re particularly keen to hear creative proposals that cover an underreported story, or hear from people who are often unheard and offer unexpected or rare access.
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