DEADLINE: Vermont Law and Graduate School Summer Media Fellowships

The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law and Graduate School is seeking applicants for Summer Media Fellowships. This year the center is accepting 2 journalists focused on environmental law and policy and 1 focused on food and agricultural law and policy. The fellowships are open to full-time journalists who cover environmental issues such as natural resources, energy, legal affairs, food and agriculture, public health, and other environment-related subjects.

Selected media fellows have access to our distinguished faculty and visiting policy leaders, meet for on- or off-record conversations with these experts, develop new insights, and gain new sources. Each fellow will choose to audit one or two courses from a selection of topics within their specific fellowship category.

Media fellows in these areas will audit one- or two-week courses in June or July 2026. These fellows will receive a one-week $625 stipend or a two-week $1,250 stipend, free housing, and a tuition waiver (travel not included).

Media fellows also take part in the Summer Session’s lunch series, “Hot Topics in Environmental Law,” delivering a 45-minute, informal lecture on an environmental, food and agricultural topic of their choosing. Outside of classroom time, fellows can also enjoy the beauty of our campus, historic South Royalton, and rural Vermont. Family members are welcome.

Fellowships are open to journalists who cover issues such as natural resources, energy, legal affairs, public health, food and agriculture, and other environment related subjects. They are open to staff, freelance, and independent reporters, writers, editors, and producers who are working full-time as journalists. Journalism students and teachers, public relations practitioners, and contributors to newsletters, magazines, and other media controlled by industry, government, or advocacy groups are not eligible.

Fellows are selected based on the quality of their ability to reach a broad audience including the applicant’s work history, samples, and commitment to covering environmental law and policy,  or agriculture and farm systems topics and their potential for increasing understanding of these issues nationwide.

VLGS looks for journalists who are from different geographic areas, at different career stages, in different types of media, and who work for a variety of news organizations.

Apply today!

All fellowship submissions are due by midnight ET on February 1, 2026.

For questions or inquiries, please contact ELC@vermontlaw.edu.