Are you an aspiring foreign reporter who could benefit from a £6,000 grant?

Applications are invited for the Richard Beeston Bursary 2016, offered in association with The Times.

Beeston was a distinguished foreign correspondent for 30 years, reporting on wars, revolutions and natural disasters.

When he died three years ago of cancer at the age of 50, Beeston was foreign editor of The Times.

The bursaries represent an opportunity for an aspiring foreign correspondent at the beginning of his or her career to receive a grant of £6,000 to spend six weeks abroad, researching and reporting on a foreign news story for The Times.

A second grant of £6,000 is available to another journalist who has experience of working in Israel, Lebanon or the Palestinian territories to undertake a six-week fellowship on The Times foreign desk at our London Bridge HQ.

Applications must be submitted by 9am on Monday September 19.

For information about how to apply, go to: richardbeestonbursary.com.