Searching for a way to showcase your photography, learn more about AI or improve your data reporting skills?
August brings a new batch of opportunities media professionals globally can apply for. Explore these scholarships, fellowships, contests and more all with deadlines next month.
Human rights film festival
Deadline: August 1, 2025
The Watch Docs Festival, organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, will take place Dec. 5 to 14 in Warsaw, Poland. Entries must have been completed after Jan. 1, 2024 and be in English or Polish or with English subtitles. Documentarians can apply now.
Science journalism contest
Deadline: August 1, 2025
Science journalists can apply now for the Kavli Foundation’s AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, which seek to recognize outstanding reporting for a general audience, and honor individuals for their coverage of the sciences, engineering and mathematics. Winners will receive cash prizes, and travel expenses to attend the awards ceremony will be covered.
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Human rights photo contest
Deadline: August 5, 2025
The Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize is seeking submissions that show people impacted by the climate crisis. Entries must have been taken between Aug. 1, 2024 and Aug. 5, 2025 and should illustrate courage, despair, hope, injustice, hate, compassion, human rights failures or victories. The winner will receive a cash prize and more.
Film competition
Deadline: August 6, 2025
Filmmakers can submit their work now for the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Banff Mountain Film Competition, which brings together the best films and books on mountains and the spirit of adventure. Entries must have been produced in 2023, 2024 or 2025. Winners will receive a cash prize.
Data journalism scholarship
Deadline: August 10, 2025
The International Center for Journalists is offering full scholarships for data and investigative reporters to attend the University of Maryland’s Howard Center Data Journalism Training Program. Scholarship recipients will also participate in virtual discussions to connect with fellow international journalists. Applicants must have at least five years of experience.
AI accountability fellowships
Deadline: August 11, 2025
Staff and freelance journalists can apply now for the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships, which support reporters working on stories that examine government and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine and more. Fellows will receive up to US$20,000 to pursue a reporting project.
Environmental photo contest
Deadline: August 29, 2025
The Global Heat Health Information Network and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network have launched the Extreme Heat Photo Contest, which seeks to showcase the real impacts of extreme heat and the ways communities are responding to it. Winners will receive a photojournalism masterclass, a personalized certificate, a digital exhibit and more.
Humanitarian grant
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Photographers, videographers and content creators can apply now for Action Against Hunger’s grant for a new humanitarian perspective. The winner will receive a grant of EUR5,000 to carry out their project, which will be exhibited.
Image by Vilve Roosioks from Pixabay.
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