The U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy Yerevan announces an open competition for organizations with expertise in journalism education and training to implement the “U.S. – Armenia Professional Partnership in Journalism” program. The goal of the program is to support the Armenian media sector’s overall resilience to disinformation, strengthen professional reporting skills and standards, and cultivate U.S.-Armenian professional partnerships in journalism by instituting an exchange program for Armenian professional journalists and media managers. The exchange program will incorporate a training institute and a fellowship placement for Armenian media professionals in a U.S. media outlet/institution for hands-on learning and relationship-building.
Applications must be made electronically via www.GRANTS.gov or by sending to the yerevangrants@state.gov inbox (making sure that the e-mail submission clearly references the funding opportunity number) no later than 11:59 PM local (Armenia) time on April 11, 2023. More information is available at: https://www.usa.am/announce/ppj.zip (ZIP 883KB).