New Narratives 2022-2024 New Narratives 2022-2024 The contribution appraised here aims to strengthen independent and qualitative journalism in Liberia by supporting New Narratives to provide production grants to journalists and capacity build Liberian media houses. New Narratives will target newsrooms, with capacity building, journalism-grants and skills strengthening focused on digital media production and business support. The programme aims to equip Liberian journalists and news organisations with the resources, know-how and support to pursue independent and investigative reporting.

New Narratives overall goal is to strengthen local independent journalism in Liberia to actively contribute as part of a whole-of-society effort to combat corruption and support good governance and human rights. 

Two main outcomes are expected to be achieved by the intervention:

1) Liberian journalists are equipped with resources, know-how and support, including through strong relationships with relevant non-media CSOs, to pursue independent and investigative journalism during and after the project.

2) Liberian news organizations and New Narratives have the resources and know-how to enhance financial viability in a sustainable way to support investigative journalism. Insatsen syftar till att stärka självständig and kvalitativ journalistik i Liberia, genom att möjliggöra för New Narratives att bistå med stipendier till journalister och kapacitets bygga liberianska mediahus. New Narratives kommer stötta nyhetsredaktioner med kapacitetsstärkning, journalist-stipendier och kompetensförstärkning fokuserat på digital mediaproduktion och företagsutvecklande. Programmet syftar till att utrusta liberianska journalister och nyhetsredaktioner med resurser, know-how och stöd för att kunna bedriva självständig och grävande journalistik. New Narratives overall goal is to strengthen local independent journalism in Liberia to actively contribute as part of a whole-of-society effort to combat corruption and support good governance and human rights. 

Two main outcomes are expected to be achieved by the intervention:

1) Liberian journalists are equipped with resources, know-how and support, including through strong relationships with relevant non-media CSOs, to pursue independent and investigative journalism during and after the project.

2) Liberian news organizations and New Narratives have the resources and know-how to enhance financial viability in a sustainable way to support investigative journalism.

This will be achieved by the following broad activities, thoroughly outlined in the proposal, which each include a number of different outputs to promote and boost a sustainable investigative journalism ecosystem by:

a) Building strong investigative and independent journalism capacityb) Building trusted news organizations with large reach and sustainable, independent revenuec) Strengthening civil society collaborationsd) Offer investigative journalism grants to journalists at the concerned newsrooms 

It is the embassys perception that New Narrative works in a flexible and adaptive manner for reaching these objectives. The embassy is aware that these goals are long-term as the two-year contribution will support NNs impactful program that builds skills on the job and sets a high standard for journalism in the Liberia market.