The call for applications has six deadlines for applications during the year and will run for four years. The next deadline is 17 September 2021. Please submit applications to the Fritt Ord Foundation’s application centre.

For quite some time, media and journalism have been among the Fritt Ord Foundation’s core target areas. In the demanding situation being experienced by the media and thereby in the public sphere as a whole today, we aspire to do even more to support and promote high-quality journalism in several areas.

Application requirements
The initiative is completely open when it comes to topics. When applying for project support, journalists, editors and editorial staffs are free to choose the topics and contents of their projects. The Foundation’s goal is to help facilitate projects that could become important contributions to the social debate and matter to most people.

The general public is the target group for the projects. Applicants are free to use any publication platform, and are encouraged to take a multi-media approach. Any independent, editor-driven publication that targets Norwegian media users can apply. Applications will be accepted from editorial boards or individuals, but all support will be designated to specific named individuals. The programme is open to new forms of cooperation across several editorial boards/groups of journalists, and freelancers with publication agreements are invited to apply.

We aspire as far as possible to support work on content intended for publication, while providing less support for operating expenses, technical development projects, in-house skills upgrading and the purchase of equipment.

We ask that applicants submit a 3 – 5-page project proposal that is as specific as possible. The project proposal should include a schedule, a description of the content (e.g. a list of articles or a publication plan/schedule) and a list of the project team members, featuring five lines of background information on each of them. We also require an attachment containing information on other sources of funding, own efforts and an overall project budget.

If you apply as a freelancer, please attach a brief confirmation of your publishing agreement and fee schedule from the editorial board(s) that will be publishing the project. Please note that grants are intended to supplement fees, and the fact that you receive funding from Fritt Ord cannot be used to reduce the level of the fee you receive.

Label the application “Norwegian Journalism” in the title field.

For help with the application process, please contact a staff member:

Hanne Vorland, telephone 230 14640
Elin Lutnæs, telephone 230 14649
Ingvild Bjerkholt, telephone 230 14648

Or Knut Olav Åmås, executive director (email address: knut.olav.amas@frittord.no)

In addition to the funding set aside for Norwegian Journalism, grants will be made in central journalism-related fields such as documentary films, documentary photos and journalistic prose. These will continue to be important priorities for Fritt Ord in the ordinary rounds of applications, so they do not fall under the purview of this scheme. Please contact us if you have questions.