Selection of journalists mentees for establishing Micro-Centers of Investigative Journalism (MCIJ) in the poor investigative journalism regions (based on the defined criteria for location of MCIJ and developed terms of reference for functioning of MCIJ).

CSO "Nashi Groshi" is looking for media partners/journalists in the regions NGO "Nashi Groshi" is looking for media partners in the regions for the 5-months project, which will start approximately on February 1. The selection is carried out within the framework of the project "Empowering Civil Society and Journalists in Oversight and Promotion of Effective Anti-corruption Environment" , which is being implemented by the NGO "Anti-Corruption Action Center" in partnership with the NGO "Nashi Groshi" and with the financial support of the World Bank. The cooperation foresees that a local media chooses one or two journalists who will learn investigative journalism throughout the project, and later conduct their own investigations under the daily mentorship of "Nashi Groshi". The investigations will concern the problems of the region in which the media is located. The texts created during the project will be published in the partner media upon its approval. The financing of the activities of the selected journalists will be carried out at the expense of the NGO "Nashi Groshi". Salary corresponds to the market. Criteria for selecting media partners: - Location in a regional center or a city with more than 200,000 inhabitants. - Absence of effective journalistic investigative centers in the selected city. - The partner media resource must have a good reputation in the region. - The partner media resource must exist at least two years. - The management of the partner media outlet confirms the absence of censorship in the future cooperation and the desire to advocate changes in the region. Qualification requirements for investigative journalists: - Higher education (journalism, jurisprudence, history, philology). - Work experience of 2 years as a journalist in the social and economic sphere. - Ability to process large amounts of information and think logically. - The ability to write quickly, competently and clearly, to prepare the text in accordance with editorial standards. - Experience in investigative journalism is desirable, or at least the desire to get it. - Excellent command of Ukrainian is mandatory, English is desirable. - Confident PC user. After completing the training, journalists will carry out a publication plan: at least 12 in-depth news or four large texts per month. The project will cooperate with no more than two journalists from the same region. More detailed information is available at the link - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xw1v1HbvTv21eVQDtKYzQVu2B2CSPFQI/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=[phone removed – see original notice]&rtpof=true&sd=true. Proposals from interested media resources and/or candidates for the position of investigative journalist with relevant resumes are accepted until January 27, 6:00 p.m . by e-mail: [e-mail removed – see original notice] with a subject note "Cooperation in investigative journalism." Also, in the letter, please provide links to 2-3 articles written by the candidate for the position of journalist, as well as a link to the media outlet that the respective candidate represents.