- The selected proposals will be developed under the Editorial Alliance with CONNECTAS. You will receive personalized support from an editor from our Editorial Board , who will accompany you from the beginning of the project until its publication.
- If your proposal is selected, you will receive funds between $1,000 and $2,500 , depending on the budget submitted, to cover research expenses and journalistic team fees.
- Your work will be published in CONNECTAS, the main platform that promotes collaborative journalism in Latin America, and allied media of our Information Community.
- Once you publish your work, you can be part of #CONNECTASHub , a community made up of colleagues from all over Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Eligibility for CONNECTAS Fellowship Program
- Be a practicing journalist in media or independent media, with a minimum of three years’ proven experience.
- Residing in a country in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Include in your application links to recent publications, preferably to research, in-depth work or reports.
- The proposal must be in Spanish.
General conditions
- Those admitted will have editorial freedom over their story. They must participate in the pedagogical editorial support process in which they will receive continuous feedback on their research. The proposals will have a period of four months to be carried out.
- Those proposals that provide guarantees of prior reporting and knowledge of the subject will be considered with special interest; that have a strong investigative component, social impact and novelty; and where there is collaboration between journalists.
- Those selected will accept the terms of republication of the research material, editorial support, security conditions with which the topics are followed up, and preparations for the final dissemination.
- Proposals can be presented individually or as a team.
- All publications must include audiovisual, multimedia or storytelling elements , carried out by the work team.