Investigative Journalism Training Program in the Baltics

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The U.S. Embassies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia aim to offer a 12-month innovative, multi-phased investigative journalism training program for early and mid-career journalists working in the Baltic states, who report in local languages or Russian. Media organizations in all three countries need the skills and tools to produce fact-based, credible news reporting. The program will build a more mature, independent, and proactive 21st century media landscape in all three countries. While the program will include journalists from all three Baltic states and all three U.S. Embassies will take part in the planning and coordination, U.S. Embassy Vilnius is overseeing this NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY (NOFO). The ideal program will include in-country training/workshops in all three countries, cash reporting awards for journalists with realistic investigative reporting project ideas and opportunities to pursue them, and study trips to the United States to visit newsrooms, journalism schools and new models for funding and delivering quality journalism in the digital age. The successful program should also include methods for connecting alumni of the program and ongoing networking both among the three countries and with U.S. trainers/experts/contacts for project help as well as source and audience development. The program should allow flexibility of focus, needs and activities in each country. Programs that include local partners in any or all of the Baltic countries are also welcome. Please see link for full description and details.

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