Stories Funded

From 2017 to 2021, the Aotearoa New Zealand Science Journalism Fund paid more than $100,000 to journalists and science communicators throughout Aotearoa.

There were six funding rounds. Click the links for more details.

We are currently on hiatus and will review the science journalism landscape and may be back – if needed! – in the future.

2021 Funding Round

Funders

• Mobilising for Action theme of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, Ngā Rākau Taketake Programme

2020 Funding Round

Funders

• ESR
• Science Media Centre
• Te Pūnaha Matatini

2019 Funding Round

Funders

• The Earthquake Commission
• QuakeCoRE
• Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
• Te Pūnaha Matatini
• NZ SeaRise Programme
• Press Patron supporters
• Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize

2018 Funding Round

Funders

• Antarctica New Zealand
• New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge
• Science Communicators Association of New Zealand
• Te Pūnaha Matatini
• The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

2017 Funding Round

Funders

• Deep South National Science Challenge
• Te Pūnaha Matatini
• Aotearoa New Zealand Science Journalism Fund