Journalism grants for newsrooms and publishers
LINA seeks to strengthen public interest journalism in Australia and support local newsrooms to grow their capability for reporting. This includes offering grants to newsrooms to report on stories deemed important to their communities and audiences.
LINA micro-grants
Up to $2,000 per story
This grant opportunity supports the production of stories that could reasonably be described as:
- Solutions journalism: investigates and explains the responses to a particular issue/s; or,
- Public interest journalism: reporting that pursues information that the public has a right to know, ie holding power to account; or,
- Justice/court reporting: journalism focused on events and actions within the justice system; or,
- Investigative journalism: deep reporting on a single topic of interest; and/or,
- A collaborative reporting project involving two or more newsroom partners.
Environmental reporting grants
$2,000 to $10,000 per project
This grant supports journalism projects that are solutions-oriented (constructive journalism) and report on environmental issues or sustainable actions and initiatives.
These may take the form of a short-series, an investigative feature, a multimedia production, and/or another reporting project that supports audience engagement on a topic of environmental mitigation actions.
The purpose of this grant is to counter misinformation and bias in some news media, educate audiences and use relatable examples of impact to inspire action in your community.
These grants are available to LINA members only.
Find out more about the hallmarks of a LINA membership and what we can offer:
Other grants for Australian newsrooms
Some additional funding opportunities that may be relevant to some Australian publishers, newsrooms or journalists.
Walkley Foundation: The Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism 2024
The Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism honours the work of legendary ABC journalist Sean Dorney. It provides for a grant of $10,000 to a journalist to produce significant content in any medium profiling issues in the Pacific region.
Applications open 2025.
Walkley Foundation: Scholarships and fellowships
The Foundation’s scholarship, fellowship and leadership programs, coupled with Awards programs like the Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year, have supported early and mid-career journalists, lowered barriers to entry to the profession for a more diverse group of journalists, and helped ensure that the future of the industry is in good hands.
Various programs.
Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal: Community led resilience-building.
The Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) Prepare & Recover program supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe, generally one to ten years after the disaster.
Applications close September 2024.
QLD Government: Gateway to Industry Schools Program (GISP)
The program builds partnerships between schools and industry to enable young people to acquire the knowledge, skills and attributes to participate effectively in the Queensland economy and provides opportunities for industry and the education sector to work together to deliver outcomes for students, local communities and businesses.
Applications close August 2024.
Australian Government: Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) First Nations
The SEE Program aims to improve access to foundation skills training, focusing on building LLND skills, for around 27,000 Australians.
Applications open (ongoing).
Australian Government: New Jobs Program Trial
This opportunity provides grant funding at the minimum wage rate (plus superannuation and leave) to successful applicants for Community Development Program (CDP) participants.
Applications close October 2024.