Opportunity! Elizabeth R Media Fund’s Commonwealth Digital Challenge

For all media enthusiast……..

Elizabeth R Media Fund is seeking applications for its “Commonwealth Digital Challenge” with an aim to provide young and aspiring media managers from the Commonwealth with the skills and tools necessary to help their organisations face the digital challenges in their countries.
The event will also act as a spur to the competitors to discuss the needs of a free and competitive media across the Commonwealth.

Deadline
3rd November

Eligibility
-Applicants must be citizens of a Commonwealth member country, excluding the UK.
-The competition is open to journalists and media managers working for a media organisation in the public or private sectors.
-Entrants must be journalists or media managers, aged between 28 and 35, on April 1st, 2018.
-The competition organisers may request documentation to verify an entrant’s age and employment status.

Value
The overall winner will be invited to spend a week’s intensive study of UK media organisations in London, with all expenses paid, during the week of the Commonwealth Summit in London in April, 2018.

Application
Entrants will be asked to submit a 400-word statement, in English, outlining a particular challenge posed to their organisation, or media sector, in their country together with a potential business case for how it could be addressed.
Twenty applicants will be invited to take three online modules in digital skills and newsroom management from the Thomson Foundation’s online Journalism Now programme.
The most successful of the 20, in the opinion of the judges, will be invited to spend a week’s intensive study of UK media organisations in London, during Commonwealth Week 2018, followed by online mentoring by Thomson Foundation consultants for 12 months.

For more information, please visit Commonwealth Digital Challenge.