Workshops & Services - Fellowships
AAAS Annual Meeting Fellowship for Young Chinese Reporters
AAAS and EurekAlert! are seeking applications from young science journalists working for Chinese news organizations for three fellowship spots to cover the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting as part of the Fellowships for Science Reporters in Developing Regions Pro
Hearst Fellowships
Fellows work in a two-year program and will have four job rotations – eight months in a metro market, four months in a small market and two six-month rotations in a medium-to-large market.
Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science & Religion
An intensive two-month course of study in issues of science and religion, includes three weeks of seminars at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Ten fellows will be paid a $15,000 stipend, book allowance and travel expenses.
Metcalf Institute Diversity Fellowships in Environmental Reporting
This 42-week fellowship program provides minority journalists with an opportunity to learn basic science, gain environmental research and reporting skills, and apply new knowledge and skills in a 37-week reporting assignment.
American Press Institute Fellowships
API awards fellowships to journalism educators and newspaper employees to use in attending API seminars. Thousands of dollars in financial aid available to journalists, educators.
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Village Voice Media Fellowship Program
Writing fellowships are six-month jobs. They pay $500 per week, without benefits. Most fellows hired either have a master’s degree or at least a year of practical journalistic experience outside school.
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USF Minority Dissertation Fellowship
The University of San Francisco invites applications from underrepresented ethnic minority scholars for the USF Dissertation Fellowship Program for academic year 2007-2008.
Jefferson Fellowships for Journalists
The Jefferson Fellowships promote better public understanding of the United States, Asia and the Pacific Islands through a program of dialogue, study and travel for print and broadcast journalists.
Magazine Publishers of America Foundation Fellowship
MPA offers two fellowships to MPA members, each of which provides a full financial aid package equal to the amount of tuition and lodging for each of Stanford University's three publishing programs.
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Alfa Fellowship Program
The Fellowship in Russia will begin with a seminar program including key Russian government, media, social, cultural, and private sector officials to discuss current issues facing Russia.
Shorenstein APARC Fellowships
Shorenstein APARC supports a number of diverse fellowships: on Korean studies, on the political economy of contemporary East Asia (the Shorenstein APARC/Takahashi Fellowship), and the contemporary Asia-Pacific region.
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Fox Boot Camp Diversity Fellowship
The National Association of Minority Media Executives is looking for an up-and-coming television producer to attend an all-expenses-paid Boot Camp.
Investigative Reporters and Editors Minority Fellowships
Looking to diverse their membership, IRE is offering fellowships to journalists of color to attend IRE national and regional conferences, and computer-assisted reporting boot camps. The minority fellowships include a year's membership fees.
Godfrey Wells Stancill Fellowship Fund
The Godfrey Wells Stancill Fellowship will be awarded annually to a journalist working for a newspaper with Sunday circulation under 50,000. The fellowship will cover the costs of sending the journalist to IRE's annual conference.
Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship
Fellowship for one Latin American journalist to come to the United States for six weeks to work at a Spanish-language media outlet. This Fellowship honors the late Douglas Tweedale, a well-known UPI correspondent in Latin America.
Anna-Maria and Stephen M. Kellen Fellowship
The primary purpose of this program is to acquaint German journalists with the press system in the United States and to provide them with opportunities to pursue individual reporting projects.
Religion Newswriters Association's Fellowships in Religion Reporting
FRNA members who have been on the religion beat three years or less are eligible to apply. Registration is free, and fellowship recipients receive stipends up to $1,000 to cover travel and lodging expenses.
Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowships
This monthly series of one-day seminars is for journalists who are or soon will be based in Washington. Miller Fellows learn from veteran colleagues, officials and experts how to mine the nation's capital for important local news.
CDC Knight Public Health Journalism Boot Camp
A six-day crash course in the basics of public health science and biostatistics. It equips journalists to explain and analyze the critical health issues of the day, including the potential for epidemics.
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New Times Fellowship Program
Writing fellowships are six-month jobs. They pay $500 per week, without benefits. Most fellows hired either have a master’s degree or at least a year of practical journalistic experience outside school.
Western Enterprise Reporting Fellowship
Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West is pleased to announce a new short-term visiting fellowship for working journalists.
Academy for Alternative Journalism
In just eight weeks, ten students from around the country will receive a crash course in reporting and writing at the Chicago campus of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Metcalf Institute Annual Workshop for Journalists
This one-week fellowship program is an intensive, hands-on workshop that puts reporters in the field every morning and in the lab each afternoon with scientists, graduate students, and policy experts.
California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program offers journalists a chance to step away from the newsroom to hone their skills in health care journalism.
European Journalism-Fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin
A mid-career program for journalists which gives the opportunity to take a two-semester leave from their professional positions and spend a sabbatical year in Berlin to work on a scientific-journalistic project.
Yuchengco Fellows Program for Filipino Journalists
Open to all journalists of Filipino ancestry in the diaspora and in the Philippines. Applicants must be professional journalists print working with at least three years of experience. Fellows will receive a stipend of up to $27,500 per semester.
NABJ Gulf Coast Fellowship
Five NABJ members will receive funding up to $2,500 to report and prepare print, broadcast, multimedia, video and audio pieces telling the stories of black people affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Ethel Payne Fellowships
$5,000 fellowships to journalists wanting international reporting experience through self-conceived assignments in Africa. Winners must spend up to three weeks in Africa and produce news reports for NABJ.
Educator in the Newsroom Fellowships
A Radio and Television News Directors Foundation initiative to enhance the quality of broadcast journalism education and to strengthen the caliber of the future broadcast news workforce funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health
Up to ten fellowships will be awarded to print, television, radio and online journalists to research and report on health policy issues.
Border Justice and Journalism Fellowships
Border Justice Fellowships will be awarded to 10 journalists committed to reporting and writing in-depth stories about policies, realities and politics of Mexican immigration to the United States.
Japan Society-Japan Media Fellows Program.
Sends four American journalists working in print, electronic or broadcast media to Japan for a six-week residency to study a topic of professional interest. Develop professional contacts and foster personal relationships.
East-West Center Journalism Fellowships and Exchanges
Seminars and study tours for working journalists promote understanding of the complexities of the Asia Pacific region.
IRP Fellowships in International Journalism
Two groups of eight IRP Fellows will be selected for intensive travel and study for research involving foreign affairs. Open to any U.S. journalist with at least three years of professional journalistic experience in any medium.
Leaders in Diversity and Communications (LIDAC) Fellowships
The Leadership Development Institute is a three-day, hands-on program for new and middle managers of color. It is offered twice a year, in the spring and fall, in partnership with different media organizations and associations.
NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellowships
Offered by NPR in partnership with the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins University. This program is open to U.S. journalists with university degrees and at least three years of professional journalism experience.
Judicial Administration Fellowship Program
Open to all people with a college degree, including recent graduates and mid-career applicants. It is expected that applicants will demonstrate an interest in the judicial system and issues concerning the administration of justice in California courts.
California Senate Fellows
Program's primary goals include exposing people with diverse life experiences and backgrounds to the legislative process and providing research and other professional staff assistance to the Senate.
Jesse M. Unruh Assembly Fellowship Program
One of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious legislative fellowship programs, providing an opportunity for individuals of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and experiences to directly participate in the legislative process.
NPR Kroc Fellowships
NPR is looking for a diverse pool of applicants who aspire to work in public radio. Candidates must be just completing college or graduate school, or be out of school for one year or less. They do not need journalism or radio experience.
Judith L. Widman Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship
United Methodist Communications offers a one-year fellowship to help prepare a United Methodist young adult of racial ethnic minority origin for a communications career in an Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church within the U.S.
Stoody-West Fellowship for Graduate Study in Religious Journalism
$6,000 fellowships in religious journalism offered in recognition of the work and lives of Dr. Ralph Stoody and Dr. Arthur West, leaders in public relations and information services in The United Methodist Church.
Gridiron Foundation Journalism Fellowship at Maryland
The Gridiron Club, the 118-year-old newspaper correspondents’ organization, in 2003 established the Gridiron Fellowship at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism for an incoming master’s student each year.
Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
The program provides young American professionals (23-34) with executive level internships in the federal government and private sectors in Germany.
Eugene S. Pulliam Fellowships for Editorial Writing
The Pulliam Fellowship awards $75,000 to an outstanding editorial writer to help broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. The annual award can be used to cover the cost of study, research and/or travel in any field.
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at the University of Maryland
The Hubert H. Humphrey Program at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism is part of a nationwide Humphrey Program and funded by the United States Information Agency as a Fulbright exchange activity.
Reuters Business Journalism Fellowship at Maryland
Reuters, the international news and information company, is funding a graduate fellowship at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism for a minority student interested in a career in business journalism.
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Fellowships at Harvard University
Fellows are journalists, scholars, or policymakers who are active in the fields in which press, politics and public policy are highly relevant, including polling, public opinion, elections and the like. Four to six fellowships are awarded each semester.
Journalism Fellowships in Child and Family Policy
Since March 2000, our professional development program has helped strengthen journalists’ understanding of child / family issues and their policy dimensions.
Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowships
Six mid-career journalists will be selected to work side-by-side with scientists and researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for a three-month exploration into public health issues.
APSA Congressional Fellowship Program
For nine months, select political scientists, journalists, doctors, federal executives and international scholars gain "hands on" understanding of the legislative process by serving on congressional staffs.
IRE Fellowships for Minorities and Small News Organizations
IRE makes available certain fellowships to allow professional journalists the opportunity to attend training events they would not otherwise be able to attend.
Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT
MIT's mid-career program is designed for experienced journalists who cover science, technology, medicine, or the environment or journalists who wish to prepare themselves to cover these fields. Fellows spend an academic year on campus.
Dart Center Ochberg Feloowships
The Dart Center provides six or more expense-paid fellowships to mid-career journalists who want to apply knowledge of emotional trauma to improving coverage of violent events.
Kaiser Family Foundation International Health Journalism Fellowship Project
The International Journalism Project is a new initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support journalists with a strong interest in reporting on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and related health issues.
Soros Justice Media Fellowships
The program seeks to improve the quality of media coverage and representation of issues at the core of the U.S. Justice Fund's criminal justice priorities.
Inland Press Foundation Fellowships
For minority employees of the 915 Inland member newspapers that have an interest in a future in management or are beginning careers in newspaper management, these fellowships are open to all newspaper departments.
Casey Journalism Center Fellowships
Print, broadcast and online journalists are chosen to examine the challenges facing today¹s families. Fellowships cover a travel subsidy, lodging, materials and meals.
American Association of University Women Fellowships
One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women.
AAJA Fellowships
AAJA offers a fellowship to members to help attend short-term professional training and skills development programs. Grants of up to $1,000 are offered to provide assistance with tuition, travel, food, lodging and other program-related expenses.
RTNDA Minority Fellowships
$2,500 N.S. Bienstock Fellowship recognizes a promising minority journalist in radio or television news management. Michele Clark Fellowship is a permanent $1,000 award for young, promising minority professionals in television or radio news.
Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellowships
The Alicia Patterson fellowships are open only to U.S. citizens who are fulltime print journalists, or to non-U.S. citizens who work fulltime for U.S. print publications, either in America or abroad.
Hispanic Journalism Foundation Fellowships
The Hispanic Journalism Foundation offers reporting fellowships on a continuing basis. We include a one-year fellowship for an aspiring Hispanic print journalist to train as a reporter in the nation's capital. We offer a stipend of $20,800, plus benefits.
Howard Simons Graduate Fellowship
The Washington Post offers a one-year fellowship for a student of color to earn a master's in journalism at the University of Maryland. This fellowship is named for the late Howard Simons, a former managing editor.
Knight International Press Fellowships
Designed to share professional expertise and offer assistance to the media overseas. U.S. journalists are dispatched to foreign media organizations to lead training sessions. Deadlines are Feb. 15 and Aug. 15.
Racial Justice and Journalism Fellowships
Ten Justice and Journalism Fellowships will be awarded to journalists committed to reporting and writing in-depth stories about justice issues related to race and ethnicity.
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism
Ohio State University pays $20,000 and provides mid-career journalists with six months to reflect on their profession, deepen their understanding of the beats they cover, and work on a project that inspires them.
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute
A training program at Vanderbilt University for people of color who want to become journalists but have not had formal journalism training.
The Mary Wright Writing Fellowship
Established to foster the work of aspiring writers and editors of color at New York's award-winning weekly newspaper, The Village Voice. Writing fellows research, report, and write articles with an eye toward publication in the Voice.
Willie Kee Memorial Fellowship
$1,000 award to a college student who is interested in pursuing a career in photography, editing or other broadcast arts. The fellowship may be used towards college education or attending the national AAJA convention.
Knight-Bagehot Fellowship
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism offers qualified journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding and knowledge of business, economics, and finance.
National Arts Journalism Program Mid-Career Fellowships
Offers critics, reports and editors working in print, broadcast and electronic journalism time off from their professional duties to immerse themselves in a wide range of university curricula.
Newspaper Association of America Minority Fellowships
Program is designed to widen opportunities for minority professionals to enter or advance in newspaper management. Newspaper executives and journalism educators are asked to nominate candidates who demonstrate managerial potential.
IWMF Public Health Fellowship
Offers women newspaper editors and radio producers who cover public health issues in eligible countries the opportunity to receive on-the-job training with top media companies in the United States.
Newspaper Association of America New Media Fellowships
Fellows will be able to combine their new media expertise and the leadership financial and marketing skills they develop during the program to build a strategic plan for a newspaper web site.
McCormick Tribune Fellowship
An innovative executive development program for high-performing senior managers and executives of color in the news media. Its goal is to increase both the number and the impact of influential minority executives in the news business.
Social Science Research Council Fellowships
SSRC fellowship and grant programs provide support and professional recognition to innovators within fields, and especially to younger researchers whose work and ideas will have longer-term impact on society and scholarship.
National Iranian American Council Public Service and Journalism Fellowship Program
Designed to grant Iranian-American youth the opportunity to witness first-hand how democracy works in America. The program provides outstanding Iranian-American college students with internships in political and media organizations in Washington, DC throu
Young Communicators Fellowships
Awarded to appropriate candidates to help them take advantage of strategic short-term opportunities that can enhance their abilities and credentials to pursue careers that involve the communication of ideas.
The Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute
During an intense 4 1/2-day workshop sponsored by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, 25 journalists will learn about some of the most important environmental issues facing the Great Lakes and its surroundings.
ONA-Media Center Fellowships
Five fellowships to this seminar, "Mobile Media: Media Opportunites and Strategies for the Mobile Broadband Generation" which will be held in Los Angeles from April 26-29. The fellowships will include tuition, accomodation, meals and $300 for travel.
Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan
$6,875 monthly stipend plus all tuition and fees. One application offers consideration for any and all Fellowships available. Full-time journalists in any media with five years' experience may apply.
Jack R. Howard Fellowships in International Journalism
Fellowships provide full support for a year of study for four internatinal journalists at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Society of Environmental Journalists Fellowships
SEJ's fellowships offer assistance to journalists by underwriting costs to the Annual Conference or for special reporting projects. Funding for fellowships comes from a variety of sources and may fluctuate from year to year.
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National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation Professional Fellowship Program
Established to provide management training for people of color and women who are radio and television broadcasters and have demonstrated ability to show promise for future advancement in the industry.
Minority Graduate Fellowships
A list of 150 fellowships available to graduate students.
Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
"There is tremendous potential for journalists to improve the public's understanding of mental health issues and to play a critical role in reducing stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses." - Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
The James V. Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
Given each year for work published or broadcast during the previous year. The winner receives a $3,000 prize and participates in a public symposium at Stanford with journalists, academics and others whose work focuses on Western environmental issues.
Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program
A two-month (August-September) working fellowship for young German and American print and broadcast journalists. Travel expenses and a stipend are provided.
The McGee Journalism Fellowship in Southern Africa
Each year, a McGee Fellow is posted to one or more nations in southern Africa for three to four months. The Fellow is based at a university, media assistance organization or journalism association.
World Affairs Journalism Fellowship
Intended for experienced journalists and editors from America's community-based daily newspapers. The goal is to give them an opportunity to establish the connections between local-regional issues and what is happening abroad.
George Washington Williams Fellowship for Journalists of Color
The fellowship funds stories written by journalists with diverse backgrounds about issues such as the environment, global trade policy, healthcare, race, and education.
American Council on Germany Journalism Fellowships
The American Council on Germany offers three distinct fellowships to enable journalists to explore timely topics in depth overseas while broadening their personal and professional perspectives.
Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship Program
The program is a one-week residential experience for professional science writers and editors, print, broadcast and electronic media journalists and other science reporters and editors whose audience is the general public.
The Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowships
Winners undertake and complete a one-year project of their choosing, focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States Journalism Fellowship Program
Between 20 and 30 grants will be awarded each year to American journalists to enable them to investigate and report on European topics that they would not otherwise have been able to cover.
USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program
The program seeks a small group (6-9) of distinguished mid-career arts editors, critics and reporters from print, broadcast, and online journalism.
Nieman Fellowships for Journalists at Harvard University
Nieman Fellowships are awarded to reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and cartoonists, and Internet specialists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media.
Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism
The program is open to all full-time U.S. print or broadcast journalists interested in deepening and broadening their knowledge of environmental issues.
NewsU Fellowship
A year-long fellowship to aid in the creation of interactive learning modules for News University, the e-learning project at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. The project is funded by the Knight Foundation.
Covering Native Americans in the 21st Century
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism sponsors this USC traveling expenses-paid seminar taking 16 professional fellows on a multi-state journey into the heart of ìIndian Country.î
Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism
The National Press Club offers a one-year stipend of $5,000 to defray post-graduate tuition costs for graduate students in journalism.
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Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships - Postdoctoral Competition
The 2005 Conference of Ford Fellows is planned for early October of 2005. Full details will be provided on this site when they become available.
American Indian Graduate Center
AIGC has provided graduate fellowships since 1969 to American Indian and Alaska Native students from federally recognized U.S. tribes.
2005-2007 Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Graduate Fellowship
A two-year fellowship to a qualified Native American student beginning his or her graduate studies in the fall 2005 semester.
ASNE/APME Fellows Program
Begun in the fall of 2000, the ASNE/APME Fellows program has placed 43 journalists of color in full-time, permanent newsroom positions at small newspapers (under 75,000 circulation) in the past four years.
John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists
U.S. candidates must have seven years' professional experience. Fellows receive a stipend of $55,000, plus tuition, health insurance and an allowance for books, housing and child care.
Newhouse Minority Fellows Program
The Newhouse Graduate Fellowship in Newspaper Journalism for Minorities is a highly competitive 30-month program that provides generous awards each year to two minority students.