Media Challenge Fellowship Programme for Journalism and Media Students 2024

Media Challenge Initiative is seeking applications for its Media Challenge Fellowship Program from journalism and media training institutions. The fellowship is intended to provide time and resources to the top applicants to engage in high intense practical meant to turn them into a multifaceted one-man-woman-army journalist.

The Media Challenge Fellowship Program is an aggressive multimedia journalism training program awarded to the best journalism students from the Inter-University Media Challenge, a practical reporting competition in 14 universities in Uganda.

The fellowship program is part of the Media Challenge Initiative’s strategic vision of building the next generation of journalists who are not only multi-skilled but also critical participants as change agents in changing their communities and the negative African narrative.

MCI Fellowship Structure

• 25 days of practical multimedia journalism training including foundations and Multimedia Skills, Participatory youth radio training, Beats reporting, career guidance, media entrepreneurship, data journalism and digital Skills.
• The Media Mentorship Program;Within the Media Mentorship Program, each fellow is connected to a professional mentor in the media industry for ongoing guidance on a yearlong program.

• Table of Content
• About Media Challenge Initiative
• Media Challenge Fellowship Programme
• Aim and Benefits of Media Challenge Fellowship Programme
• Requirements for Media Challenge Fellowship Programme Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Media Challenge Initiative

We Are Media Challenge Initiative. We are a youth-driven non-profit, building the next generation of journalists in Africa through training, mentorship and experiential peer-to- peer learning. MCI has been providing professional journalism and multimedia journalism training since 2012. It is a social enterprise led by a team of four Ugandans that focus on student journalists who hope to improve their skills in the fields of journalism by providing media fellowship and journalism workshops.... continue reading

Media Challenge Fellowship Programme

Aim and Benefits of Media Challenge Fellowship Programme

They aim to combat high rates of youth unemployment while empowering young journalists to improve the quality and impact of the media, seeking to enhance democratic processes through encouraging critical and investigative reports that hold government and institutions accountable.

Requirements for Media Challenge Fellowship Programme Qualification

The Media Challenge Fellowship Program is open to the following categories of applicants;

• Applicants must be journalism and media students
• Participants in the IMC and expo competitions have an added advantage

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more detils, visit Media Challenge Initiative website.