DEADLINE: ProPublica's Emerging Reporters Program

The Emerging Reporters Program provides $9,000 stipends, along with mentoring and an expenses-paid trip to a journalism conference, such as the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, to five students each year who work or want to work at college journalism outlets: newspapers, websites, radio stations or TV stations. 

The Emerging Reporters Program is specifically designed for talented aspiring journalists who find investigative journalism inaccessible for financial reasons. All students who will be undergraduate juniors or seniors in college this academic year are eligible to apply, and students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in journalism are especially encouraged to do so. Participants are expected to take a full course load during the 2025-26 school year. Applicants must also demonstrate financial need.

Deadline to apply: Aug 18, 2025.

ProPublica’s mission is to shine a light on abuses of power, producing stories of moral force that provoke change. There are currently few minority reporters who specialize in investigations. Without more such voices, visions and points of view, there is every reason to believe that important stories are being overlooked.

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