APWLD is offering Media Fellowship

  • Fellowship
  • Asia

Website APWLD

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) invites women media professionals, journalists, data and visual journalists across Asia and the Pacific region to participate in the APWLD Media Fellowship on Digitalisation and Feminist Digital Rights and Justice.

‍The APWLD Media Fellowship was launched in 2018 to respond to the pressing need to spotlight the voices and stories of women from marginalised communities. It aims to increase space and influence of feminist narratives and demands in diverse media platforms to advance women’s human rights, feminist digital rights and Development Justice.

To date, it has engaged 30 media fellows, producing over 74 multimedia reports that tackle grassroots women’s issues, analyse structural inequalities and promote feminist collective action and solidarity through a feminist and human rights lens.

This year’s media fellowship aims to deepen the media, data and visual reportage on the rise of digitalisation in the region and its gendered impact on women and their communities.

Now in its sixth year, APWLD Media Fellowship aims to continue creating inclusive and safe spaces for journalists in traditional and new media platforms and showcase feminist storytelling that highlights the voices of grassroots women and their communities in the region.

Interested applicants may apply for individual fellowship or team fellowship. Selected individuals will be given a stipend of USD 3,000 while teams will be provided with USD 5,000 to cover expenses for research and travel (conditions permitting) according to workplans co-developed with APWLD.

The duration of the fellowship will be from May 2025 to May 2026. During this period, the fellows will have an option to produce news, feature, photo, data and/or podcast/audio stories, audio-video content/documentary and/or combination of these formats with a feminist lens that highlight the gendered impact of digitalisation on women’s human rights.

APWLD’s Media Fellowship is coordinated and conducted by the APWLD Information and Communications ‘Feminist Voice’ Programme. In previous years, the APWLD Media Fellowship focused on the issues of development, climate change crisis, gendered impact of COVID-19 on the ground, women migrants and migration, and militarism.

APWLD, a regional feminist, membership-driven network with over 313 members from 31 countries and territories across Asia and the Pacific, is committed to building feminist movements to advance women’s human rights and Development Justice. If you are passionate about covering feminist, progressive movements and challenging structural globalised inequalities, please consider applying to this opportunity.

Objectives of this fellowship

  • To produce stories that highlight feminist analysis and demands on digitalisation, digital rights and justice issues and their gendered impact on women and their communities in mainstream and alternative media platforms.
  • To influence and shape the public discourse on digitalisation and encourage reporting from feminist perspectives, in the process influencing policies and conversations in advocacy spaces.
  • To support APWLD members’ and partners’ campaigns and advocacy at national and regional levels and their media advocacy work.

To apply for this job please visit mediafellowship.apwld.org.

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