Uncovering Environmental, Legal, and Financial Corruption

ARIJ is offering new grants to Arab investigative journalists, each amounting to 2500 USD, to produce digital, audio, or televised investigative reports that help uncover environmental, legal, and financial corruption, and help promote change and hold authorities accountable. Aside from the grant, ARIJ will cover any shooting or video editing expenses.

Do you have an investigative story that you want to tell? Do you have the courage and skills to follow its leads and pursue those involved in it?Are you passionate about covering climate change and global warming stories?

1. Are you excited to work on cross-border investigations about desertification? Air pollution? Managing water resources? Fighting emissions? Toxic waste disposal?

2. Is achieving equality and fighting discreminiation and slavery is its modern forms an issue you are interested in?

What about discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities? Depriving certain groups of their basic rights? Systematic displacement of individuals (in times of peace)? The seizure of minorities’ properties without compensation?

3. Do you want to follow the money from questionable sources? Money involved in other corruption cases? Manipulation of public contracts and project implementation? Abuse of power in public bidding?

Do you need the resources to work on the investigation? And do you have the skills to explore open sources? And analyse data? And follow the threads of corruption?

Are you from Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania?

ARIJ is looking for investigative ideas to support it technically and logistically, and produce it and publish it or broadcast it.

Apply now with your pitches here.

The grant is available for up to eight weeks from today. The deadline for applying is Monday, November 15, at 4:00 PM Amman time (+3 GMT).

All submitted pitches will be subject to the approval of a specialized committee that will study them in terms of their novelty, the size of the issue raised, and its impact. The committee welcomes joint and cross-border pitch submissions, and encourages female journalists to apply.