This is an opportunity provided by the Reporting Land Rights programme: Find out more

Urbanization, resource extraction, women and land inheritance rights, forestry concessions, tribal welfare: property rights underpin the myriad of major issues that Indian reporters cover every day.  Access to land is crucial to boosting productivity, alleviating poverty and eradicating hunger, addressing gender inequalities, and identifying solutions to economic and social barriers.

This program, which is a collaboration between the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, will assist Indian journalists in understanding property rights and incorporating it in their reporting, whether they cover business and industry, the environment, urban revitalization, indigenous rights, food security, or a range of other topics.

The program will involve a four-day workshop in New Delhi, India from August 6-9, 2019. We will also offer modest funding to journalists with outstanding story ideas on property rights, as well as editorial support to help them realize these ideas, drawing on the Reuters principles of accuracy, integrity, and freedom from bias.

The four-day workshop will feature content on understanding property rights, paricularly in an Indian context; journalism skills and research techniques; approaches to building sources in this field; and talks from guest experts.

Who Can Apply

• Journalists working for domestic media anywhere in India are eligible.
• Journalists working in any medium may apply—print, radio, TV, online.
• Journalists must be fluent in English.
• Journalists must have a minimum of one year's experience. They should either be working full-time for a media organization, or a freelancer whose main work is journalism.

Course Logistics

We will cover all transport, lodging and subsistence costs for journalists from outside Delhi.

 

Meet Our Experts

When applying you will be asked to upload the following documents—please have these ready:
2 relevant work samples (maximum file size 5 MB)—in English if possible. For stories not in English, please include a 250-word English summary of the story.
A letter from your editor consenting to your participation in the programme and committing to publish/broadcast resulting stories
Please note you will be asked to submit one or more story ideas within your application.  We will not share your ideas with anyone.
If you have any difficulties applying, please email trfmedia@thomsonreuters.com.