Berlin Scholarship Program: Empowering Journalists in the Digital Field

Reporters Without Borders Germany invites journalists from war zones and crisis areas to come to Berlin for three to four months. During this time they can enjoy a break and complete a comprehensive training program in digital security issues relevant to their work.

The program is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises.

The aim of the scholarship is to provide scholarship holders with practical knowledge on how to protect themselves against digital threats such as surveillance or hacker attacks in their journalistic work. In addition, they will also receive training in how to teach others in their home region about digital security issues.

In the first round of the program advertised here, four scholarships will be awarded for the period from 1.10.2018 to 31.12.2018. In 2019, three further rounds of four scholarships will be awarded in separate calls for applications.

Who can apply?
Professional journalists, bloggers and citizen journalists who

• are exposed to digital threats due to their work in their home regions,
• want to learn and work extensively with digital security in order to improve their personal security
• are interested in passing on the knowledge acquired during the scholarship program to colleagues in their home regions and, ideally, already have some experience in teaching (including in other areas).

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