DEADLINE: ICFJ News Corp Media Fellowship for Digital Innovation

The News Corp Media Fellowship offers international reporters and editors an immersive, hands-on experience in some of the world’s most digitally advanced newsrooms. Fellows learn firsthand how these top outlets are navigating the changing journalism landscape.  By shadowing reporters and editors across different departments, the fellows gain a comprehensive understanding of how an innovative news outlet operates in the digital age, and bring back new skills to transform their own newsrooms. 

Each year, ICFJ and News Corp accept applications from a different  region or country, making this opportunity available to a wide range of global journalists. 

To complement the four-week fellowship, ICFJ designs a three-day orientation to meet the training needs of each year’s fellows.

To be considered for the fellowship, journalists must:

1. Participate in two, two-hour webinars conducted by editors and reporters with expertise in digital tools, data journalism and visualization, artificial intelligence, mobile journalism and audience engagement. Webinars will be open to a select group of up to 50 journalists. Both webinars will occur in April.
2. Receive one of four news innovation grants to support a data or digitally-driven project. Only journalists who participate in both webinars are eligible to apply for these grants. Projects should promote new forms of storytelling, data journalism and visualization, or citizen engagement. Each grant recipient will also receive online editorial coaching and mentorship from experienced editors, reporters and experts. The reporting period will run from July through September.

Only journalists who complete both stages successfully will be considered for the News Corp Media Fellowship. 

During the fellowship, the journalist will be embedded for two weeks in November in the Wall Street Journal’s New York City office. This two-week fellowship will be in-person.

• Contribute to WSJ projects on analyzing audience engagement
• Lead peer-to-peer discussions
• Promote an exchange of ideas and knowledge
• Establish new partnerships and relationships with WSJ teams
• The fellow will receive a stipend and expenses during their time in New York City will be covered.

Deadline: Apr 21, 2025 at 11.59 pm EST

Details and application.