Deadline: 1 March 2016
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is seeking applications from journalists in India for its one-week Reporting Trafficking and Slavery course in Mumbai which is a unique chance to gain practical skills and knowledge in a country that is home to some 14 million of the world’s modern slaves.
With support from the C&A Foundation, the workshop offers a combination of specialist expertise and hands-on training, with an emphasis on producing high-impact stories for widespread dissemination.
Thomson Reuters Foundation acts to promote socio-economic progress and the rule of law worldwide and focus areas span from investigative journalism and media development, to anti-trafficking, pro bono legal assistance, climate change, social innovation and much more.
Benefits
- Attendees will learn about efforts to set global standards for combating modern slavery, including fundamental conventions, international instruments and a new, legally binding protocol that requires countries to take real action.
- They will discuss the role of media in raising awareness, reducing vulnerability and holding to account governments, law enforcement and businesses.
- Attendees will look at innovative approaches to fighting trafficking and forced labour and scrutinise the quest for integrated policy responses across borders.
- A major focus will be on the ethics of reporting slavery, from how to interact sensitively with traumatised survivors to getting past journalists’ own preconceived notions and stereotypes.
- Attendees will also cover safety issues, particularly when it comes to dealing with sources and reporting on organised crime.
- Attendees will also spend time with experts and those at the coal face of the anti-slavery movement, including some who have been trafficked themselves and gone on to help others move from “victims” to “survivors”.
- This is an opportunity to pick the brains of reporters who have done extraordinary investigative work or groundbreaking reportage that has changed policy, provoked public outcry or brought traffickers to justice.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must be:
- Indian
- full-time journalists or regular contributors to broadcast media organisations.
- able to demonstrate a commitment to a career in journalism in their country
- must be a senior journalist with a minimum of three years’ professional experience
- have a good level in spoken and written English.
- If the applicants have been on a Thomson Reuters Foundation training programme within the last two years he/she will not be eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Thomson Reuters Foundation.
