2018 TRANSATLANTIC MEDIA FELLOWSHIPS APPLICATION

The Transatlantic Media Fellowships support well-researched transatlantic journalism. Each year, we sponsor a select number of journalists from the US and Europe for an independent, five-day, transatlantic trip to research stories relevant to the foundation’s work on climate and energy policy, democracy and social policy, or foreign and security policy. Fellowships are selected annually and are open to journalists in any medium.​

Please note that eligibility criteria differ by issue area.
What we offer
The Heinrich Böll Foundation North America offers a stipend of $3,500. The stipend is partially paid in advance to cover travel costs related to the project and partially paid after completion of the reporting.

Who can apply
We seek journalists with a strong track record of publications, working in any medium, who offer new perspectives on transatlantic policy debates.
We will give special consideration to journalists: from regional or local media outlets who can demonstrate that transatlantic reporting is a new and important perspective for their audience from diverse backgrounds who can offer lesser-heard perspectives
whose story ideas would be informative for regional or local policy debates who may not otherwise have the opportunity to conduct transatlantic research

Applicants for Climate & Energy Policy should either be: based in the US and demonstrate a strong motivation for engaging in research and reporting within the European Union and/or in Turkey; or based in Germany and demonstrate a strong motivation for engaging in research and reporting in the US.

Applicants for Democracy & Social Policy and Foreign & Security Policy should be: based in the US and demonstrate a strong motivation for engaging in research and reporting in the European Union and its neighboring countries.

Note: We do not require fellows to be citizens of either the US or the EU; however, fellows are responsible for securing their own visas, if necessary. We can provide a letter of support for the visa application process.

What's expected
Reporting: Each fellow is expected to publish content from their trip in any print or online medium no later than October 31, 2018. Reporting can be in the form of one longer, investigative piece, three shorter articles, or multimedia content (i.e., podcasts, videos, or photo essays).
Publication: Fellows must be able to either guarantee the publication of their pieces or to provide us with documentation of a completed story ready for publication. Fellows should demonstrate a strong track record of publications and/or media productions and should highlight this in their application.
Crediting the foundation: Fellows (and/or their employers) will retain full editorial control over the reporting but should credit the foundation for supporting their research. The Heinrich Böll Foundation retains the right to feature the final pieces on its website following their publication, either as an excerpt or in its complete form. In cases where publication with a media outlet cannot be secured, articles may be published on the website of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Active social media engagement: While traveling and developing their stories, fellows are expected to actively engage with the Heinrich Böll Foundation over Facebook,Twitter, and/or Instagram.

The Ida B. Wells Fellowship provides four reporters each year with a $12,000 stipend and access to an Investigative Fund editor who will advise them throughout the process of producing their first substantial work of investigative reporting. The one-year fellowship also covers travel and other reporting costs associated with the project and the costs associated with attending the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in June. Each fellow will also enjoy access to research resources, legal counsel, professional mentoring, and assistance with story placement and publicity. The fellowship is a one-time educational opportunity and is non-renewable.

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 entry-level or mid-career journalists. Recent journalism school graduates, journalism students or journalism interns are eligible to apply, as are reporters in other fields seeking to pivot to investigative reporting. Applicants may be freelance journalists or journalists currently employed by a media outlet.

The selected journalist will develop the analytical research skills needed to create a series of news reports dealing with the economics of the aging workforce in the United States to be distributed by AP to its global worldwide audience of thousands of subscribers and customers across all media platforms.

As part of the fellowship, you will participate in the Center’s ongoing Working Longer survey research project and have the opportunity to produce reporting projects for the AP. Approximately 40 percent of the is devoted to education and skill development activities, including formal and informal training in economics and social science research methods to facilitate data-driven journalism. The other 60 percent will be spent developing in-depth reporting projects where you will obtain hands-on experience with the assistance of AP, NORC, and University of Chicago senior staff.

Working with an AP editor to develop innovative reporting projects around the economics of working longer, the journalist will be expected to produce a regular flow of journalistic activity, but at a level appropriate for someone devoted to working mostly on enterprise activities rather than someone assigned to produce spot news on a daily basis. Thoughtful news coverage requires more time than the more superficial stories that dominate most coverage of this issue; this fellowship is designed to provide time, resources, and training to support more in-depth and harder-hitting news coverage.

Are you ready to bring transformative change to Federal information production and distribution techniques? Here is a chance to influence and improve the effectiveness of data at the national level by simplifying complex problems with data and visuals that convey information in new, understandable ways. Take an appointment with our team as we lead the creation of new national transportation data information products in the era of big data, and where you build new stories about transportation and implement innovative analysis through data journalism.

The future of transportation datasets holds great promise as well as new challenges. The democratization of data and omnipresence of technology in transportation has created the opportunity for vast new empirical data resources with profound impacts on data velocity, volume and bias. These changes push us, as storytellers, journalists, analysts and statisticians, to rethink our relationship with data. In this 24 hour a day instantaneous information environment, the pressure to deliver fresh data stories is relentless. A constant call to balance the decennial, quinquennial or even annual data releases with near real time data and analysis exists for many data providers. Working in coordination with our Director of Public Affairs and our lead Visual Information Specialist, you will use data journalism to explore opportunities for advancing data and statistical information and you will build new data stories and information products for Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to publish to the world.

You will be using, adapting and transforming data and data analysis to provide new stories about transportation. You will craft aviation, economic, freight, passenger, vehicle, and ship data into meaningful information for the public. You will learn to design and build innovative, new stories that capture emerging areas of transportation.

You will have the opportunity to develop close working relationships with other U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) offices, and other Federal agencies that maintain data and analytical capabilities, which can aid in the understanding of the transportation industry. You will participate in inter-agency efforts relating to the development and improvement of information production and distribution, and you will conduct research on existing and emerging technologies, processes and approaches that can be used to enhance the storytelling of transportation and then implement this research with new products and techniques.

Who are we? We are the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Office of Spatial Analysis and Visualization (OSAV). The BTS is the Principal Federal Statistical Agency that provides objective, comprehensive, and relevant information on the extent and use of the Nation’s transportation system, how well the system performs, and the effects of the system on society and the environment. BTS is recognized as the pre-eminent source of airline data as well as freight data for the United States.

NPR’s Latino USA, a national weekly radio program about Latino stories is taking applications for a 4 month-long fellowship. We are seeking recent graduates from a journalism program or journalism professionals with a passionate interest in reporting that centers the voices and stories of girls, young women, and gender-fluid individuals of color in NYC. The fellowship is funded by the New York Women’s Foundation and will focus on stories that encourage girls, young women, and gender-fluid youth of color to lead self-determined lives and create a culture and narrative shift to advance gender and racial equity in NYC.

The fellowship is open to female and/or gender-fluid individuals who are early-career reporters with no more than five years’ experience in the field. They will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them, honing their journalistic and storytelling skills as well as gaining technical radio broadcasting and podcasting skills.

The fellowship will start in February 2018 and end in May 2018, and it will include a monthly stipend of $1,730 that will be paid out bi-weekly throughout the duration of the fellowship. The fellow will be based out of our Harlem offices. The Fellow will be immersed in Latino USA’s editorial and production process, particularly gaining feedback on how to research, pitch, produce and edit stories from Latino USA’s unique perspective.

The ideal candidate should play well with others and enjoy production and reporting. They should have a passion for telling Latino stories and working with voices that are rarely heard in the public media landscape. We’re a small shop, so we need someone who is a true team player unafraid of rolling up their sleeves and doing whatever it takes to complete an assignment.

Duties and Expectations

Reporting to a Latino USA Producer with additional direction from the Production Manager as well as editing guidance from the Editorial staff, the Fellow will:

Attend editorial meetings on days they are in the office;
Generate ideas for coverage of stories that encourage girls, young women, and gender-fluid youth of color to lead self-determined lives and create a culture and narrative shift to advance gender and racial equity in NYC.;
Bring well-developed pitches to our bi-weekly pitch meetings;
Produce no fewer than three (3) stories during the duration of the Fellowship. These stories will potentially air nationally on Latino USA;
Provide multimedia content (web copy, tweets, Facebook entries, photos, etc.) for each story;
Encourage local community organizations to share these stories with the communities they serve.
Work approximately 3 days a week.

For stories that they produce, the Fellow will be expected to:

Write and edit segments as needed;
Report, write, voice, and edit segments;
Contribute copy to show scripts as assigned;
Secure and organize audio materials for segments;
Participate in group listens of their segments;
Participate, as needed, on reporting trips (solo, with host, and/or with other producers);
Assist in fact-checking scripts to ensure editorial integrity and quality of content;

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, Latino studies, or a related field, or comparable work experience;
1+ years work experience in radio journalism, or 2+ years experience in other journalism medium plus some audio production experience;
Spanish language skills a strong plus, but not required;
A knack for developing relationships and sources;
Experience with ProTools or similar digital audio editing platforms;
Demonstrated ability to follow a beat;
Commitment to diverse coverage within and outside of the Latino community, in terms of sexual orientation, gender, and race;
Have an ear for good tape and a knack for developing relationships and sources;
Demonstrate ability to pitch character-based, narrative stories with scenes (like a movie for your ears);
Excellent attention to detail is key;
Excellent team player and thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment;
Be someone who would do anything to not miss a deadline;
Strong time management skills;
Ability to work independently while also fitting into a small, focused team;
Be curious with a desire to keep learning;
Accept productive criticism and feedback intended to help you grow;
Must love radio/podcasts.

HuffPost is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, video, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged global community for opinion and conversation. The site launched its first international edition in May 2011.
As a journalist, you want to make an impact and have your content resonate with readers across the globe. At Oath, we provide recent graduates the opportunity to engage with over a billion monthly active users.
This January, we’re kicking off our Associates Journalism Program in New York. As a Journalism Associate, you’ll get to work with one of our Editorial Brands.

The four brands with associates programs this year are:
HuffPost
AOL.com
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo News

Your Mission:
Build the future, cultivate wonder, and kick ass in a diverse culture with a strong sense of play that thrives on iteration, encourages risk, and rewards the bold. As a Journalism Associate, you get two years, two different placements within one of our brands and a charter to work alongside exceptional journalists and producers. Halfway through, we’ll take a trip around the world to visit our global offices, explore other newsrooms, and learn new perspectives. And if you’re still not convinced, during the program you’ll work with leaders, mentors and executive coaches.

A little about you:
HuffPost is seeking recent journalism school graduates with a passion for digital media and strong news judgement to be part of a unique, two-year program that offers myriad experiences across our newsroom teams.
Ideal candidates are problem solvers who are comfortable taking on challenges in multiple arenas, including editorial, visuals and audience, among others. These candidates will collaborate across teams to navigate the day-to-day demands of a newsroom while thinking strategically about how we grow our business as technology and reader consumption habits evolve.
As part of this program, you will have the opportunity to rotate among various HuffPost teams and travel to one of our international editions. You will be joining a growing and diverse newsroom that reaches almost 170 million people across the globe every month, and over 1 billion more through our social platforms and partner portals like Yahoo and AOL.
We’re looking for a news junkie who is comfortable writing everything from breaking news stories to in-depth enterprise pieces. You should love reporting and have a knack for killer leads, in addition to filing cleanly and on time. An interest in how to best package stories to stand out is also a must.
We’re looking for candidates who also exhibit one or more of the below qualities:
You are comfortable working in video and audio, and be excited to collaborate closely with others on multimedia projects. You are able to think creatively about how to best convey stories to our audience — no matter what the format.
You are a champion of audience-first strategies. You are excited about the challenge of developing new readers for HuffPost, through experimentation via social media, email and SEO. You should also be a confident editor, and be able to write snappy social copy easily.
You are innovative and forward-thinking, with an eye for opportunities to bring HuffPost content to new platforms. You are also able to think creatively about new ways to extend our brand offline, building on the success of our Listen To America bus tour.

Candidates should be also globally-minded. Given HuffPost’s extensive reach abroad, we’re looking for someone who is excited to work closely with our international editions and identify opportunities for collaboration. Most importantly, candidates should have an appetite for learning, as well as a willingness to get their hands dirty and try something new.
Responsibilities:
Produce, create, curate, and publish highly-shareable, social-first video content to drive new audiences to our brand
Ability to quickly and efficiently edit videos from start to finish for multiple social platforms.
Provide feedback, editorial suggestions, and copy editing for team members’ videos in order to create pixel perfect and flawless content.
Locate and source potentially viral clips on a daily basis, and be comfortable following up to secure rights to content.
Coordinate and plan video production schedule, including overseeing on-site and off-site shoots, managing equipment and securing talent or necessary interviews.
Shoot high-quality footage with standard camera equipment -- with quick on-your-feet thinking to capture key moments that will translate to social video.
Manage and contribute to video posting on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Track social performance for the brand and communicate wins and growth strategies to the team effectively.
Attend daily team planning and content review meetings to decide day-of video content assignments, contribute new ideas and give valuable feedback to team members.
Organize content calendar for planned video stories and ideas with the ability to make real-time decisions about viral content placement.
Application:
In order to be considered, attach a cover letter to your application in addition to your resume.
All the ways you’re ready for this adventure:
Bachelor's or Master's in journalism or related field.
Fewer than 1 year of work experience (post-college/university)

The largest business and financial news site in the world, with unrivaled access to data, insights and original editorial content.
As a journalist, you want to make an impact and have your content resonate with readers across the globe. At Oath, we provide recent graduates the opportunity to engage with over a billion monthly active users.
This January, we’re kicking off our Associates Journalism Program in New York. As a Journalism Associate, you’ll get to work with one of our Editorial Brands.

The four brands with associates programs this year are:
HuffPost
AOL.com
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo News
Your Mission:
Build the future, cultivate wonder, and kick ass in a diverse culture with a strong sense of play that thrives on iteration, encourages risk, and rewards the bold. As a Journalism Associate, you get two years, two different placements within one of our brands and a charter to work alongside exceptional journalists and producers. Halfway through, we’ll take a trip around the world to visit our global offices, explore other newsrooms, and learn new perspectives. And if you’re still not convinced, during the program you’ll work with leaders, mentors and executive coaches.

A little about you:
Yahoo Finance is looking for a bright, dynamic personality with a strong interest the economy, financial markets, and business. The candidate must be willing to assist the editorial staff while also learning about everything from stocks to cryptocurrencies to monetary policy to personal finance. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a fast-paced digital news environment. Critically, candidates must have superior communication skills.
Responsibilities may include:
Attend team’s daily morning editorial meetings
Conduct research and reporting for the Yahoo Finance editorial team
Pitch, report and write your own articles and/or scripts
Help with social media promotion and production
Proofread and fact check scripts and articles
Assist video producers on field shoots
Research and book video guests

Application:
In order to be considered, attach a cover letter to your application in addition to your resume.
All the ways you’re ready for this adventure:
Bachelor's or Master's in journalism or related field.
Fewer than 1 year of work experience (post-college/university)

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Millions of people vist the Yahoo hompeage for news, sports, finance, email, and more.
As a journalist, you want to make an impact and have your content resonate with readers across the globe. At Oath, we provide recent graduates the opportunity to engage with over a billion monthly active users.
This January, we’re kicking off our Associates Journalism Program in New York. As an Associate, you’ll get to work with one of our Editorial Brands.

The four brands with Associates Programs this year are:
HuffPost
AOL.com
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo News

Your Mission:
Build the future, cultivate wonder, and kick ass in a diverse culture with a strong sense of play that thrives on iteration, encourages risk, and rewards the bold. As a Journalism Associate, you get two years, two different placements within one of our brands and a charter to work alongside exceptional journalists and producers. Halfway through, we’ll take a trip around the world to visit our global offices, explore other newsrooms, and learn new perspectives. And if you’re still not convinced, during the program you’ll work with leaders, mentors and executive coaches.

A little about you:
Yahoo News is seeking two talented recent journalism grads with a passion for reporting high-impact stories and a portfolio of innovative digital and mobile storytelling. If you are part of the new wave of hybrid developer-coder-multimedia-making journalists, we want to meet you.

You will be a voracious consumer of news via apps, mobile web and the myriad social platforms that have reshaped our media landscape. You live in that world and will be an expert navigator when it comes to innovative, interactive, multimedia, data-driven reporting. You will pitch, report and write and you will immerse in our tools and platform with the goal of delivering Yahoo News readers a fresh and addictive news experience uniquely crafted for the mobile experience. We primarily cover politics and national stories, so interest and experience in those areas and the issues that matter to our readers is a must.
We are a small team, but we pack a big punch. During the course of your associateship you will work alongside our top talent and will have the opportunity to work on significant thematic projects, like our recent oral history and short documentary, “64 hours in October: How one weekend blew up the rules of American politics".
We are passionate about great, creative ideas, fresh presentation and work that activates our vast community and engages the readers to interact with and share our content. If that describes you, come see us.

Your day to day:
We’ll ask a lot of you, but it’s because we want you to be a change agent in our ever-evolving field. We have to preserve the journalistic mission and the empower the next generation of journalists - that’s you:
Attend daily editorial meetings and weekly project-planning meeting to pitch ideas
Report, write, code, shoot, animate, edit, share, etc. Whatever you need to do to bring your stories to life in a fresh and vibrant format
Interact across teams to gain experience in social media programming, creating content for our app Newsroom, working with our specialized vertical video team

All the ways you’re ready for this adventure:
Bachelor’s or Master’s in journalism or related field of expertise on which you want to report
Fewer than 1 years of work experience (post-college/university)
Strong news judgment and a solid portfolio or work demonstrating reporting skills and some area of mobile or other digital innovation
Passion for innovative digital journalism experiences and compelling reporting that moves the needle
Experience in executing successful projects and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver.
Comfort in a fast-paced, creative, innovative technology environment.

US - New York Broadway 770
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AOL’s flagship site holds all the important stories from the web, in one convenient destination. The hub for news, entertainment, sports, finance, human interest stories, and more. Plus, you can enter your location for a more relevant, localized experience.
As a journalist, you want to make an impact and have your content resonate with readers across the globe. At Oath, we provide recent graduates the opportunity to engage with over a billion monthly active users.

This January, we’re kicking off our Associates Journalism Program in New York. As a Journalism Associate, you’ll get to work with one of our Editorial Brands.

The four brands with associates programs this year are:
HuffPost
AOL.com
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo News

Your Mission:
Build the future, cultivate wonder, and kick ass in a diverse culture with a strong sense of play that thrives on iteration, encourages risk, and rewards the bold. As a Journalism Associate, you get two years, two different placements within one of our brands and a charter to work alongside exceptional journalists and producers. Halfway through, we’ll take a trip around the world to visit our global offices, explore other newsrooms, and learn new perspectives. And if you’re still not convinced, during the program you’ll work with leaders, mentors and executive coaches.

A little about you:
Are you obsessed with finding and following the latest trends on social? Do you feel like you can predict the next big thing to go viral? Are you looking for a fast-paced, exciting job where you’ll be able to work with social media to engage users, grow audience, and produce viral videos?

AOL.com is currently seeking a Distributed Video Production Associate to join the audience development and programming teams. You will work for our distributed video brand, In The Know, which drives 600M+ video views monthly and is Oath’s largest original video brand.
You will be integral in creating In The Know’s video content that will be distributed to millions of people every day. This role encompasses the entire production process of viral video content creation. This includes finding and sourcing stories and video footage, producing high quality text-to-video pieces, and sharing videos across various social media platforms. You will also be responsible for tracking and analyzing social media statistics to help the team develop strategies around video distribution on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and partnerships.
Our ideal candidate has a strong understanding of how to create and distribute viral video content across social media platforms and the ever-changing landscape of digital video. The candidate can efficiently create videos, will be able to guide and train those who are less experienced and can help the video team accomplish day-to-day tasks.

Responsibilities:
Produce, create, curate, and publish highly-shareable, social-first video content to drive new audiences to our brand
Ability to quickly and efficiently edit videos from start to finish for multiple social platforms.
Provide feedback, editorial suggestions, and copy editing for team members’ videos in order to create pixel perfect and flawless content.
Locate and source potentially viral clips on a daily basis, and be comfortable following up to secure rights to content.
Coordinate and plan video production schedule, including overseeing on-site and off-site shoots, managing equipment and securing talent or necessary interviews.
Shoot high-quality footage with standard camera equipment -- with quick on-your-feet thinking to capture key moments that will translate to social video.
Manage and contribute to video posting on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Track social performance for the brand and communicate wins and growth strategies to the team effectively.
Attend daily team planning and content review meetings to decide day-of video content assignments, contribute new ideas and give valuable feedback to team members.
Organize content calendar for planned video stories and ideas with the ability to make real-time decisions about viral content placement.
All the ways you’re ready for this adventure:
Bachelor's or Master's in journalism or related field.
Fewer than 1 year of work experience (post-college/university).
Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud apps, specifically Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Strong ability to give real-time feedback and editor expertise on peers’ content and videos.
Must be comfortable finding, sourcing and editing 2+ videos a day.
Understand how to adapt stories and write for video.
Comfortable using Facebook to schedule and distribute video and text content.
Ability to work in a collaborative team environment with real-time feedback.
Can effectively handle multiple projects at once and meet tight deadlines.
Strong communications skills and ability to write fun, informative social copy.
Experience using tools like Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Crowdtangle, Content Management Systems (CMS) and Photoshop a plus.
Must have knowledge of how video is programmed and distributed across platforms and must be willing to contribute new ideas for growth.

WHAT IS THE JOURNALISM PROGRAMME?

The Reuters Journalism Programme is an opportunity for recent graduates, early career reporters, or professionals with proven experience who are looking to switch careers into journalism. The programme in 2018 will consist of 6 months of formal and on-the-job journalism training, initially in our London newsroom, followed by one of our other main reporting newsrooms or bureaus in the Middle East or Africa.

We are excited to work with emerging talents who can tell stories from new perspectives and in different formats. As a global business we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek diverse, talented and qualified employees with proven knowledge of the Middle East or Africa and fluency in Arabic or a language (apart from English) that is widely spoken in Africa.

Key Facts

Six-month scheme including intensive training and reporting assignments
Placement in a major bureau in the Middle East or Africa, such as Lagos, Nairobi, Dakar, Beirut, Cairo or Dubai
Application due by Friday 22nd December 2017
Programme begins September 2018
Participants who excel may be considered for other opportunities
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?

The Reuters Journalism Programme offers an opportunity to fast-track your journalism career and develop your skills across a variety of subjects and media. Successful applicants will predominantly report in text, but visual reporting skills and story-telling ideas will be welcome.

Key elements

Competitive pay
Placements in an African or Middle Eastern bureau
Fast-paced reporting on top news stories of the day
Opportunity to develop journalism skills

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Prerequisites

Clear commitment to a career in journalism
Drive to build sources, break news and deliver deeply reported stories
Strong interest in issues that affect companies, markets and economies
Ability to generate original, relevant story ideas
Ambition to deliver journalism with real impact
Fluency in written English
Fluency in Arabic or a language (apart from English) that is widely spoken in Africa.
Experience living in the Middle East or Africa, alongside a grasp of the history, politics and culture
Proficiency with data
An international outlook
Other desired skills (not prerequisites)

Knowledge or expertise in a relevant field such as banking, financial analysis, accounting, law or computer science
Proven professional journalism experience
Proven ability to generate exclusive and agenda-setting stories
Experience in multi-media story-telling
Skills in investigative reporting
Expertise in data analysis or data-driven journalism
Understanding of how to use social media to report and find sources
Applicants must be eligible to work in the region to which they apply, with exceptions considered for specialist regional knowledge or language skills