The International Women's Media Foundation will award three
$20,000 grants to entrepreneurial women journalists proposing to use
digital media in innovative ways to deliver the news. In addition to seed
funding, the program provides coaching from leading entrepreneurs and digital
news media experts.
A successful applicant will pitch an innovative digital news media
enterprise with a well conceived plan for sustainability after initial funding
has ended. She will clearly demonstrate how the enterprise delivers news in new
ways, and she will outline tangible benchmarks for her success as a digital
news media entrepreneur.
Applicants can be full-time, part-time or freelance women news media
professionals based in the U.S. Funding is available for startups only.
Personal blogs and one-time documentary projects will not be considered.
To apply, click
here to start the online application process.
For more information about the application process, read the
FAQs and follow #IWMFentrepreneur (@IWMF) on Twitter.
Applications will be accepted until Friday, January 25, 2013.
Late applications will not be considered. Grant winners will be selected by an
advisory committee comprised of digital news media experts and entrepreneurs.
They will be announced in March 2013.
The Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier grant program is made
possible with generous support from the Ford Foundation.