How to apply
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Are you a journalist in Ukraine and Moldova with an idea for an investigation? Apply for a SCOOP grant and get financial and professional support for your investigation.
The general criteria for support are:
- The investigation should uncover new and important information of obvious public interest.
- The investigation is based on agreements about publishing in at least one and preferably in several media. All media – internet, print, radio, TV and multimedia – can receive support.
- The journalist already has key information (relevant sources, specific cases, documents), and access to additional information is realistic.
- The investigation must not present an unreasonable risk to the participating journalists or media.
- The involved journalists will follow professional journalistic and ethical standards.
- The results of the investigation will be published in a reasonably short time.
- The investigations must be submitted to legal advisors before publishing to avoid unnecessary conflict with the law.
- Published reports should mention SCOOP. Exceptions to this rule must be discussed with the local SCOOP representative.
- The application must include a detailed budget. Allowed expenses are: Travel expenses, access to databases, expert advice, etc. Maximum support for national investigations is 2000 euros. Budgets of international investigations will be discussed separately.
- The application must include a cv of the journalist and examples of previously published works.
How SCOOP can help
SCOOP can help you realize your investigative journalism project in different ways:
- Financial support to cover your expenses during the investigation, such as travel, hotels, expertise fees, laboratory analyses.
- Professional support from colleagues in your own country and abroad
- International network of investigative journalists. If you need help from an investigative journalists in another country during your investigation, SCOOP has a global network of trusted journalists.
SCOOP supports both national and cross-border investigations.