Find the journalism grants, media grants, and grants for newspapers you can apply to in 2026 — including Press Forward grants. Pick your country and region to see every matching program.
Journalism, media & newspaper grantsIncludes Press Forward grants & more
Applicant type
53 programs found
6 of these are repayable loans, not grants.
GrantMedia / publisher
Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) + Changing Narratives Fund stream
Canadian Heritage (delivered by News Media Canada, CRFC/Community Media Coalition, OLMC consortium)
Salary support for hired/freelance journalists (org-dependent)
Eligible Canadian media orgs producing civic journalism for underserved communities; private non-community broadcasters & CBC/Radio-Canada excluded.
Local journalismDiversity in media
Status: Active (2025–2027 cycle)·Last verified Jul 8, 2026
Coverage is non-exhaustive and provided for research only. Deadlines, amounts, and eligibility change — always confirm on the provider's official site before applying. Loans and tax credits are badged distinctly from grants.
Choose your country, then your province or state if it's listed. Country-wide programs always show alongside regional ones.
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Choose applicant type
Media, Business, or Both. Publishers are businesses too, so many general small-business programs apply to newsrooms.
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Read the eligibility summary, check the funding-type badge, and follow the official source link to confirm the current deadline before applying.
What journalism grants are available in 2026?
Journalism grants come in several forms, and they are not interchangeable. A journalism grant is money you do not repay, awarded for a defined purpose — a reporting project, a newsroom hire, or an operating year. Grants for newspapers and magazines (like Canada's Periodical Fund) sit alongside media grants from platforms such as Google and Meta, US Press Forward grants pooled from more than 90 funders, and public journalism funding across the UK and European Union — plus loans (repayable capital) and tax credits. This tool covers all of them and badges each one, so you know exactly whether you are applying for a grant, a loan, or a credit.
Coverage of these journalism and media grants is deliberately non-exhaustive: federal and platform programs plus example provinces, states, and EU-wide calls are seeded, and the list grows over time. Because deadlines and terms change frequently, every record links to its official source — use it to confirm the current details before you apply. General small-business and startup grants are included too, since publishers are businesses; switch the applicant type to see them. Journalism grants fund the work; recurring reader revenue sustains it, which is where Pelcro comes in once the funding lands.
Fund the work with grants. Sustain it with subscribers.
Grant cycles come and go. With Pelcro you can turn the audience you serve into recurring revenue — subscriptions, memberships, and paywalls with billing built in.
Not all journalism funding is free money. Several aggregators list loans as “grants” — this tool badges the funding type on every record, so you know whether a journalism grant, a media grant, a loan, or a tax credit is what you are actually applying for.
Money you do not repay, awarded for a defined purpose (a reporting project, a newsroom hire, an operating year). Most journalism funding on this page is grant funding — but read the eligibility, as many require matching or co-financing.
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