Climate change: resilience, mitigation and adaptation

Latin American colleagues!

We’re issuing a new call for proposals for Historias Sin Fronteras — this time for cross-border projects on climate change: resilience, mitigation and adaptation.

This is a great opportunity for cross-border teams of journalists to report on regional responses to climate change – the way people and countries are adapting to climate change, their efforts to lessen the impact, and the ways they are withstanding the challenges posed by dramatic shifts in climate. 

The grant will be awarded to a team of up to four journalists to cover reporting expenses related to the project. Separately, InquireFirst will cover the cost of editing the project, infographics, translation to English and Portuguese, and developing a microsite to showcase the project.

As part of the support we provide to Historias Sin Fronteras projects, we will work with media organizations throughout the Western Hemisphere who are interested in publishing your project. To date, our multimedia projects have been published by more than 50 media organizations stretching from Canada to Argentina.

Historias Sin Fronteras co-founders Iván Carrillo and Lynne Walker are delighted to congratulate the teams of journalists whose outstanding work with Historias Sin Fronteras has been recognized with international awards.  

In 2024, a team of four journalists from Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and Panama won two international awards – one from Covering Climate Now and the other from the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) – for their impressive multimedia project on the impact of climate change on traditional foods. 

Join us and let’s work as a cross-border team on this exciting Historias Sin Fronteras project!

We’re looking for projects that have regional impact – that reach across international borders – so we encourage you to think outside the box and send us your ideas for a powerfully told, data-driven regional story. Be sure that you have at least two journalists and no more than four journalists on your team and that your team members are from different countries in Latin America.

The deadline is February 24, 2025.

Your proposal should reflect in sufficient detail the outline and angle of your project. A completed questionnaire is required. The questionnaire can be found below this text.

The project will be edited by Iván Carrillo, an experienced science journalist and editor based in Mexico. There will be a calendar for editing, as well as a non-negotiable deadline. The winning team agrees to comply with the editing and publication schedule for the project. As many corrections and modifications will be made as necessary during the editing process.

The project will be submitted to the editor in Spanish and our experienced team will translate the project to English and Portuguese.

 Eligibility:

The call for entries is open to any journalist who works for or frequently collaborates with a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or online media organization in Latin America. Journalists working at media organizations and freelance journalists are eligible to apply. Those who work in public relations positions or who are institutional spokespersons are not eligible to apply.

To ensure credibility and fairness, an international panel of judges will select the winning team in each category. The decision of the judges will be final.

Credit:

The winning team agrees to credit InquireFirst in all publications and communications where the project is mentioned.

Distribution:

Cross-border science journalism projects will be published by media organizations in Latin America and the United States. Iván Carrillo and Project Coordinator Lynne Walker will work with a variety of media organizations to ensure that the projects have the widest possible distribution.

Applications must include the following:

• A completed questionnaire that describes the project. You can find a link to the questionnaire below this text.

• A budget that does not exceed US $3,000 and includes a basic breakdown of costs related to reporting on the project. The $3,000 budget may include compensation for journalists working on the project.

• A biography of each journalist on the team, with a maximum length of 300 words per biography.

Deadline: The deadline for proposals for projects on climate change: resilience, mitigation and adaptation is February 24, 2025. The winning project will be announced in March.

Questions?

Email Lynne Walker