The Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business provides a transformative learning experience for journalists from around the world, working in all forms of media. It aims to shape the next generation of leaders in business reporting. The program will take place over approximately 12 weeks at our Hyde Park campus, during which selected participants audit Chicago Booth classes, participate in events, collaborate with peers, and socialize with the university’s greatest scholars.

Journalists with some years of media experience, proficient English, and an interest in deepening their knowledge and understanding of political economy are encouraged to apply.

The application for the 2024 program is now open. Applications must be received by 11:59pm Chicago time on Sunday, October 15, 2023.

The Spring 2024 program will run from approximately March 11 - June 1, 2024.

Link to learn more: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/education/journalists-in-residence-program

MacDowell provides time and space for artists to work on creative projects and has expanded its support for journalists, by providing project funding of up to $2,500. This is in addition to financial aid for accepted artists engaged in long-form journalism projects.

A MacDowell Fellowship consists of exclusive use of a studio, accommodations, and three prepared meals a day for two to six weeks. There are no residency fees. Artists are responsible for materials and travel expenses: financial assistance is available to artists in residence based on need.

MacDowell encourages applications from artists representing the widest possible range of perspectives and demographics.The application deadline is September 10th for the Spring Summer 2024 residency season.

Journalists who are interested in applying for this initiative should submit an application to our literature nonfiction category.

TransitCenter Fellowship for Fall-Winter 2023-2024

Description:
TransitCenter is seeking a part-time Communications Fellow for the Fall/Winter of 2023-2024. Graduate students of diverse experience and backgrounds are welcome to apply for this paid fellowship. The Communications Fellow will gain experience at the intersection of communications, research, and public policy. The fellow will primarily support TransitCenter’s Communications team through a variety of comms mediums, with a focus on writing blog posts and providing editing support for podcast episodes. Topically, the work will focus on sharing stories of transit industry best practices, cautionary tales, and advocacy wins at the local, state, and national level. The fellow will be invited to pitch stories on topics that could range from community engagement best practices to public safety on transit. Through these responsibilities, the fellow will learn how to synthesize insights from interviews, and how to communicate public policy and transit best practices in a compelling, easily digestible way.

Past research projects that Fellows have contributed to include TransitCenter reports on who holds power at public transit agencies, how transit can serve older Americans, and how to improve bus stops.

Eligibility: Any current graduate students interested in journalism, media studies, communications, public policy, and/or racial and social justice are eligible.

Must-haves: Strong critical thinking, research, analytical, writing, and communications skills. A respectful, collaborative, and entrepreneurial approach to work.

Nice-to-haves: Experience or interest in interviewing and editing. Experience or interest in podcasting and audio.

Duties: The core responsibilities for the fellow include:
● Pitching and writing stories for TransitCenter’s blog
● Developing interview questions and transcribing tape for TransitCenter’s podcast High Frequency
● Assisting the Communications team with webinar logistics
● Synthesizing any research conducted on a particular topic into a brief or short report

Time commitment: Between 15-25 hours per week for four months. The schedule in the office will be mutually determined and depend on the Program Fellow’s school schedule. The Fellowship is for Fall 2023, with the possibility for an extension of four additional months through Spring 2024, based on performance.

Compensation: Our Fellows are compensated at $27 per hour.

Location: The Communications Graduate Fellow can work remotely during conventional business hours or in person at our office in lower Manhattan.

Interested applicants can apply by clicking on https://apply.workable.com/transitcenter-1/j/B5D07C0E8C/apply/ and submitting a resume, cover letter, and one writing sample or audio clip. Please include “Comms Fellow Fall 2023” in the title of your documents. The deadline to apply is July 14th, 2023. Finalists will be asked to submit two references and may be asked to complete a writing exercise as part of the interview process.

TransitCenter is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, political orientation or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. Employment is on an “at-will” basis meaning both the employer and the employee can terminate the relationship at any time. In order to live our organization values specifically to have an equitable and inclusive workplace and because we believe in the power of complementary strength, people of color, people with low incomes, women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply.

The Nova Institute for Health’s new Media Fellowship program aims to increase public understanding of the complex, intertwined connections between the health of people, places, and the planet. The Media Fellowship supports print, broadcast, and digital journalists who wish to immerse themselves in the health field and complete media projects for publication/dissemination that explore the many factors that promote well-being, prevent disease, contribute to healing, and increase an individual’s ability to flourish and live a fulfilling life.

The program’s goals include increasing media coverage that reflects a broad vision of health; is science-based and accurately reports on pertinent ideas, questions, and debates; and embraces solutions journalism and combats mis- and dis-information. It also aims to disseminate innovative research and ideas, and evidence-based information, to different audiences in understandable and engaging ways.

We encourage projects that recognize and/or examine political, historical, and social dynamics that have led to health inequities, as well as projects that take a transdisciplinary and inter-sectoral approach. Media Fellows become part of the Nova Scholars and Fellows community and receive special training. Ideal applicants are full-time journalists with established records of publication or broadcast in local, regional, or national markets or among targeted audiences/constituencies and have relevant full-time experience. Media Fellowships are one year in duration and full-time, allowing recipients to undertake their projects in a comprehensive and creative manner. Media Fellows receive an award of $105,000. Proposals are due July 5, 2023, and projects begin in Fall 2023, no later than December 1.

Documented is seeking an ambitious reporter who wants to write about issues affecting New York’s immigrant communities to apply to the Isaac Rauch Fellowship.

In the past year, we covered the increasing dangers of heavy rains and how climate change is destroying immigrant neighborhoods. We wrote dozens of stories on migrants arriving in New York from the southern border, examining the issues they face and informing them of their rights and how they can access financial support, health care and other services. We kept a close watch on New York’s many industries that are kept alive by immigrant workers, documenting wrongdoing as well as the city’s thriving labor advocacy movements.

To continue this legacy of investigative journalism, Documented is proud to launch the Isaac Rauch Fellowship, an annual six-month fellowship that seeks to uncover stories that matter to immigrant New Yorkers.

We are providing a stipend of $10,000 to the incoming Isaac Rauch Fellow to support their project proposal. Stories can be an accountability-based series, a magazine-level feature story, or even a short documentary on topics including housing, culture, immigration policy issues, public safety, and more. The only requirement is the idea must be fresh and uncover new information. We are not looking for deep dives into topics that have been widely covered.

We will open all of our resources to you during this fellowship, including access to our large audience of Spanish-speaking New Yorkers, many of whom are long time undocumented residents or recently arrived asylum seekers. We also have a growing audience in New York’s Chinese and Caribbean communities. We will help you engage our readers and connect you with potential sources. We don’t expect you to be an expert in public policy or immigration, but we are seeking well-researched and ambitious ideas that you can accomplish.

If you’re interested, please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words with a description of the story you hope to tell, a list of potential sources and links to previous stories. The fellowship includes a $10,000 stipend and you will be expected to deliver your work in six months.

The Isaac Rauch Fellowship is named for Isaac Rauch, who died of cancer at 29 in 2020. Isaac was a sharp political observer with a broad sense for New York’s political landscape and enthusiasm for its intricacies past, present, and future, from Far Rockaway to Yonkers. A dextrous and versatile writer, Isaac’s depth of thought and analysis, combined with his formidable research skills, made him an insightful addition to Deadspin, Time Out New York, and Slate. His passion for social justice was evident in his work with CAMBA, numerous elected officials, and the participatory budgeting process.

Isaac represented the best in what this fellowship aims to provide: compelling journalistic narrative, seeking the truth from our elected officials and their appointees, and creating equity for the immigrant communities that make New York City.

Please submit your application by 11:59 p.m. EST May 19, 2023.

The editorial fellowship is a demanding, research-intensive foray into investigative journalism. While fellows spend a large portion of their time fact-checking, the fellowship also offers extensive experience in writing and reporting stories, from breaking news to long enterprise pieces. Fellows work closely with reporters and editors on fact-checking, research, and reporting. You’ll receive training in every aspect of the editorial process, from research tools and methods to media law, and have opportunities to learn magazine pitching, explore feature writing, and hone your reporting, writing, and investigative skills. You’ll attend regular skill-building sessions covering topics that span the operations of a media organization.

Editorial fellows work closely on our award-winning bimonthly print magazine. By fact-checking our investigations, columns, and other reported pieces, fellows reverse-engineer a reporter’s work and learn what it takes to report, organize, and write a sophisticated magazine story. Fellows are also expected and encouraged to report on subjects including national and regional politics, climate change, the justice system, reproductive rights, and culture.

Fellows may also become involved in various digital projects—working on our newsletters, helping with web production, and aiding our Climate Desk partnership—depending on interest and need.

We’re looking for candidates with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. Some of our current fellows have had previous journalism jobs, while others are working in a newsroom for the first time. Candidates should be curious, driven, hardworking, and excited about our mission to inspire change through hard-hitting reporting. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply.

Mother Jones has offices in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York City. Most editorial staff are currently working remotely. The 2023-2024 fellowship cycle will be remote, but fellows living near one of our bureaus would be welcome to come into the office if they choose. Fellows are required to be able to work in the US.

The Blacklight, the New York Amsterdam News’ investigative unit, is excited to announce our 2023 Gun Violence Reporting Fellowship, which is part of our Beyond the Barrel of the Gun initiative. Funded by the Google News Initiative News Equity Fund, we are seeking an investigative reporting fellow who will work with our investigative unit to report on the root causes and the impact of gun violence within our Black and Brown communities, as well as the solutions to this plague which disproportionately harms Black and Brown New Yorkers.

Founded in 1909, The New York Amsterdam News is America’s most influential continuously published Black newspaper, serving the nation’s largest Black and brown community – one of only fifty Black newspapers in the country at its founding.

This fellowship is designed for an early to mid career journalist who has reporting experience but is looking to deepen their practice by working on a longform investigative project. Our fellow may explore data journalism and visualization as well as public records and community-based reporting.

The fellowship will last up to three months and includes a stipend of $10,000.

Ida B. Wells Fellowship
Ends on March 12, 2023

Named after the pioneering Black investigative reporter, the Ida B. Wells Fellowship is designed to promote diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters who come from underserved backgrounds, and bring those experiences, perspectives, and interests to their work. Winners are chosen by an annual competition.
For the 2023-24 cycle, Type Investigations will provide three fellows with a $25,000 stipend ($20,000 in payments distributed on a monthly basis throughout the year, plus $5,000 in bonus payments disbursed upon completion of the fellowship project), and access to Type Investigations editors who will advise them throughout the process of producing their first substantial work of investigative reporting. The one-year fellowship also provides a $2,500 stipend for travel and other reporting expenses, and covers the costs associated with attending the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference and an online data reporting boot camp. Each fellow will also enjoy access to research resources, legal counsel, fact-checking, and assistance with story placement and publicity. The fellowship is a one-time educational opportunity and is non-renewable.
One of the fellowship slots is reserved for a Southern Ida B. Wells Fellow, who is based in and will report from North or South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas, or Mississippi. The Southern fellow's work must appear in an outlet serving this region. If you meet these criteria and would like to be considered for the Southern Fellowship, please check the corresponding box within the application form.
Journalists of color are strongly encouraged to apply, as are other reporters who believe their presence would contribute substantially to diversifying the field of investigative reporting. The fellowship is open to reporters with some professional experience -- at least three years is optimal, although we are open to strong candidates who are newer to the field. No amount of experience is too much! All we ask for is a strong interest in embarking upon your first substantial piece of investigative journalism through this fellowship.
The deadline for the 2023 application is Sunday, March 12 at 11:59pm EST. Please note that Daylight Saving Time begins on March 12 and submit your application at least an hour prior to the deadline in case you experience technical issues. Late applications will not be accepted. If you choose to apply, you will be alerted at the beginning of April if your application has advanced to the semi-finalist round of the process, and you will be asked to submit two letters of recommendation at that time. Finalists will be interviewed in late April/early May, and fellows will be chosen by mid-May. The fellowship runs from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2024.

• We are looking for reporters:
who have an ambitious investigation they want to pursue, a passion for holding the powerful accountable, and an appetite for digging.

• with the demonstrated ability to produce a narrative feature for print, audio, or broadcast.

• who would relish the opportunity to closely collaborate with editors.

• with the persistence, attentiveness to detail, and organizational skills to complete a major project within a set timeframe.

Fellows are strongly encouraged to publish or air their projects within one year of the start of the fellowship. Each project produced during the fellowship must appear in a U.S. media outlet. Both freelance and staff reporters may apply, but staffers must submit a letter from their editor agreeing to allow them at least one day per week to work on their fellowship story, and committing to co-publishing their investigation.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Seeks 2023–24 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship Applicants

Launched in 1949, the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship seeks to promote the quality of responsible and discerning journalism that Edward R. Murrow exemplified. The fellowship offers a distinguished foreign correspondent or editor the opportunity to spend ten months in CFR’s New York office conducting sustained analysis and writing. CFR awards one fellowship annually, beginning in September. Qualified applicants must be U.S. citizens and possess a strong record of professional achievement.

Recent Fellows (affiliations at the time of award):
Amy Maxmen, Senior Reporter, Nature
Célestine Bohlen, Contributing Writer, Contributor, New York Times; Adjunct Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Matthieu Aikins, Contributing Writer, the New York Times Magazine; Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Anne Barnard, Beirut Bureau Chief, New York Times
Janine di Giovanni, Middle East Editor, Newsweek

Fellowship Award

The fellowship begins in September 2023 and runs for ten months. The program awards a stipend of $100,000 as well as a modest travel budget. Fellows are independent contractors rather than employees of CFR, and are not eligible for employment benefits, including health insurance.